Adhd - Olathe,KS

Updated on October 20, 2010
A.V. asks from Olathe, KS
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Anyone used natural products like Kids Calm, Be Calmed, or Attend with your ADHD child? Results?
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P.T.

answers from Kansas City on

I'm pro medication, but I disagree with a few of the comments on here. A person with ADHD can have successful results when put in a very organized and structured environment. Therefore, training themselves to be organized and be able to focus on smaller tasks. I am not talking about a school setting, just a smaller organized environment. Medication definitely has proven positive effects, but also has negative side effects. As for the natural products just being some type of marketing ploy to get money, well, the pharmaceutical company is the biggest culprit in this scheme. If you want to try something natural, go for it. Every child is his/her own individual. What will work for one, may not work for another. Best wishes.

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K.C.

answers from Dallas on

I second Martha's answer. I have ADHD and those products are just a ploy to steal your money. If they actually worked, the dr would recommend them. But, I've never heard a dr do so. Meds were the only thing that has helped me and my nephew...

J.G.

answers from St. Louis on

Looks like you already got some good answers. Another thing to consider is that if there was a natural product that helped with ADD it would be acting like the meds. In other words if they don't do the exact same thing they will not work.

I have ADD and my four kids do as well. My older kids were on Ritalin when they were younger. The reason it has such a bad reputation is that, as my daughter put it, it takes away your personality. She hated taking it but it did help. We are now taking Adderall, it has the same positive effects as Ritalin but you get to keep your personality.

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M.R.

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If this stuff worked, your child's psychiatrist or Developmental Pediatrician would be the first one to tell you about it and we would all be using them and raving about the resluts. These doctors regularly recomend Melatonin over presecription sleep medications because it works, and so it would be for any remedy for ADHD, "natural" or otherwise. There is no reason that any doctor would not have your child's best interests at heart wanting them to get well. They prescribe medications, because they work and that is in your childs best interest.

ADHD is a problem in the brain at a molecular level in the brain. Brains are flesh and blood, and brain cells do not touch. The tiny space between each cell is called a synapse. When we think, our thoughts are carried over the brain cells in the form of an electrical impulse. When the impulse reaches the synapes, our brains make chemicals, called neurotransmitters, to carry the electrical impulse over the synapes to the next brain cell. If your child does not make enough neruotransmitters, or the neurotransmitter recpetors are defective, your child has ADHD, and cannot rely on his thoughts to be complete with any reliablity. Some make it, but a great many do not. Medications work becasue they either help the brain produce more neurotransmitters, or help the brain uptake them more effectively, so that the child's thought process is not interupted repeatededly.

Check into so heavy reading, by anything written by the very best experts you can find on ADHD, that would be Dr. Mel Levine and Dr. Russel Barkely. Any of their books will give you quality information about assessment, treatment, strategies, and theraputic, medical, educational, and behavioral interventions that will work.

M.

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N.R.

answers from St. Louis on

I was wondering about Kids Calm too.

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