Lori, In my experience, allergies play a very important role in ADD/ADHD. Especially if there have been frequent ear infections. This can cause a disfunction of the vestibular nerve, which is often very apparent in children with ADD/ADHD. Some of the symptoms of vestibular disfunction are constant need to be very active (they are sesking the stimulation that the vestibular nerve needs to fulfill its development), lack of dizzyness after spinning, and absence or depressed post-rotary nystagmus. This is determined when a trained therapist shines a flashlight in their eyes after they have been spun around rapidly several times. Simple exercises can help this. Sally (a mom and teacher with personal experience)
Lori Fields <[email protected]> wrote: Cindy and others... My son has slight ADD. He also has a reading disability. However once he was seen by an Ear Nose and Throat specialist who asked about his food allergies. I said Joshua didn't have any allergies, he in turn asked me how long Joshua had acted like he did...talking a lot, climbing things, being VERY active. Of course to me that was just Joshua. The MD persuaded me to have allergy testing done and sure enough Joshua was allergic to a host of foods. Once off of them his "hyper" activity was much easier to manage. I am not saying allergies are totally responsible for ADD or ADHD, because as a matter of fact I think the predominance of estrogens (plastics, petroleum-based products [margarine anyone??]) in our environment (water, air, food, etc) is responsible for most of it. What I am saying is that: yes, there is a very real problem. Lets find out what is causing it instead of treating symptoms. Lori -----Original Message----- From: CH [mailto:[email protected]] Be careful. It's easy to say some of these "problems" aren't real if you're not the one dealing with it. As much as I like the natural world because that is where true healing is, some of us get to the point where we chose drugs because nothing else has worked. And I speak from experience of ADD since my oldest boy has it. Call it what you will but something is amiss neurologically. Yes, far too many boys are asked to get tested for ADD simply because they are active little boys. Cindy -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
