If you want to help your child decrease some of those ADHD symptoms, you will need to experiment with what you're feeding them.
Since studies have shown a link between ADHD and and what children eat, simply eliminating or adding certain foods may decrease symptoms or even get rid of them.
To me, changes in diets for children with ADHD, is much more preferable to prescription drugs.
That's because natural remedies, such as diet control, will get to the root of the problem rather than just putting a bandaid on it, which is exactly what the drugs will do.
Remember, a change to a healthy diet is a good thing.
There is no downside to ADHD recommended diets that promote healthy eating.
Here is a diet that my son's psychologist suggested.
You need to eliminate these foods for a couple of weeks: * Dairy Products- The most important one to eliminate, from diets for children with adhd, is milk from a cow.
There are other animals that produce milk, but I chose to replace it with water.
And not just a glass or two.
I had my son drink at least 6 glasses per day.
Don't cheat and give then kool-aid or ice tea because they don't count as water.
ADHD recommended diets, and for that matter all diets, include lots of water.
* Yellow foods- This will include, but not limited to, corn, yellow beans, and yellow squash.
* All junk food- Say bye bye to potato chips, McDonalds, and everything else with no nutritional value.
* Fruit juices- Way too much sugar.
One glass of orange juice equals about six oranges.
* Sugar- This is probably the toughest one to eliminate because it's in so many foods and drinks.
If you can't eliminate it 100%, come as close as you can.
(Remember it's only for two weeks) * Candy- especially chocolate * Artificial sweeteners- includes saccharin, nutrasweet, aspartame I know, I know! That was your solution to no sugar right? * MSG- If you see this in the ingredients, put ot back on the shelf.
* Processed meats- When you read the ingredient label and you can't pronounce them, put it back on the shelf.
* Fried chicken- and any thing else that is fried.
* Artificial food dyes- They will be listed as probably Red, yellow, or blue dye number whatever.
Don't touch them for now.
Once the two weeks are up you can start putting these food back into your child's diet in the following manner.
Add one food every other day.
Eat as much of that food as possible every day for four days.
If your child has a problem with one of the foods, you will see some kind of a "reaction" within four days, such as hives on the body, or ears turning bright red, or even an increase in hyperactivity.
If there's a problem, you'll know.
If there's no problem, you can include that food in ADHD recommended diets for your child.
Diets for children with ADHD should include as much organic food as you can afford because I know organic food can be expensive.
Organic food is grown without all the dangerous long-lasting pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.
Also include a healthy portion of fruits and vegetables your child's diet.
Dietary control is just one part of an alternative treatment for ADHD.
When combined with herbal and homeopathy remedies and behavioral therapy, natural treatment can be just as effective and much safer than prescription medicines.
I'm sure your son or daughter will thank you in the future for the natural approach.