The weather’s nice, schools out and the kids are ready for a long summer’s vacation. Now is the perfect time to help your young one eliminate ADHD so by the time classes start up again, they are ready, willing and able to get the most out them.
Every parent knows the feeling of irritability and frustration when their kids won’t listen or behave, but for parents of kids with ADHD, it often morphs into despair and desperation because their kids seem to be out of control and/or unable to ‘just sit and be still’. And many times, this is true – the kids can’t. It isn’t a choice, it’s a condition.
Many of these children have an underlying biochemical imbalance that doesn’t allow them to properly filter information. This overloads their mental circuitry with information, making it literally impossible for them to focus on any one thing very long. Adults living with ADHD know this all too well as they have to struggle to concentrate and complete the tasks at hand.
The medical approach to this problem is to prescribe drugs like Ritalin or Strattera to try and overpower this underlying imbalance. However, although these drugs are the best attempt to help these kids focus, peer-reviewed data indicate that 60-85% of the children taking these drugs receive relief of symptoms no greater than a sugar pill, but 100% of them are exposed to drug side effects. The side effects from these medications are many, and many are serious.
Thankfully, recent research has shown that providing the body the nutrients it needs to naturally restore balance works much better than the standard drug interventions without any of the side effects. In fact, our clinical experience is backed by peer reviewed literature [PDF link] that shows that properly balanced amino acid therapy is superior to conventional medical treatments with an improvement in 77% of children without any of the side effects.
If you’d like to learn more about how amino acid therapy may be able to help you or your children, give us a call – we’d love to help eliminate the condition so behavior can become a choice.
Academic difficulties are also frequent. The symptoms are especially difficult to define because it is hard to draw a line at where normal levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity end and clinically significant levels requiring intervention begin. To be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must be observed in two different settings for six months or more and to a degree that is greater than other children of the same age.
Great point Tandra. Most of the time a diagnosis of ADHD is initiated after a child exhibits difficulties in the classroom in relation to his or her peers. It is often a judgement call; one that often resides on the diagnosis side of the fence.
It is often easier to address the underlying causes of ADHD over the summer vacation so the child is well balanced when they are put back in the classroom. Amino acid therapy has shown to be an incredibly effective measure to help correct these underlying imbalances so that these kids can learn and behave appropriately without feeling/acting “drugged”.
Thanks for the comment/observation!
Dr. Chad