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"Grymma" n...@grymma.co.invalid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3767313.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3770683.stm Available from July on NHS prescription. I ***ume that the boy in the second article was part of a UK trial group.
I have my daughters pdoc meeting on Monday, and I will be Asking Questions (grin) - she didn't have a clue what I was talking about when I asked her about Atomoxetine last year... she better know now!
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Grymma AFPOh Goddess Of Hangovers; B.F.(use 'reply to') "I once absend-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce." - (Terry Pratchett, on a.f.p.)
nknisley MothWrang...@hotmail.com
Interesting that the first article says, "There is also agreement that diets can be effective in relieving ADHD symptoms." Agreement by whom? And based on what?
That certainly conflicts with just about everything I've read about diet and ADHD symptoms, including the WebMD article I posted earlier today: "Can Food Really Affect Your Child's Behavior--Experts bust the sugar-hyperactivity myth and other misconceptions about food and children's behavior." http://my.webmd.com/content/article/88/99694 Are doctors in the UK keeping studies showing that diet can improve ADHD symptoms a secret from the rest of us?!
Nancy Unique, like everyone else
"Grymma" n...@grymma.co.invalid
It's more the case that the correspondent took what the representative of the Cactus Clinic said on trust, rather than actually investigating for themselves, I think. I find myself increasingly disappointed in the calibre of BBC reporting. I also wonder whether the Cactus Clinic is 'private' rather than National Health Service. I'm always kinda wary of establishments you have to pay, offering 'treatment' regimes not available or unheard of with the NHS, as I wonder if they are merely snake oil remedies...
My sister came in to see me last week, bursting with some newpaper article information she had read in the UK press about diet and ADHD (regrettably she didn't keep the paper, so I don't know which daily national it was), I basically told her it was a load of crap, afaiac, and she at least agreed that it certainly had no merit where my daughter is concerned, as she has been clearly 'different' from the moment (and I would venture to say, from even before) she was born.
I shall ask the BBC what research they have to back the diet claim :o) (I shall take the opportunity to remind them yet again that it's not just children who have ADHD as well...)
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Grymma AFPOh Goddess Of Hangovers; B.F.(use 'reply to') I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
"Grymma" n...@grymma.co.invalid
Bad form to follow up myself I know, but a quick search for 'Cactus Clinic' brings up all sorts of articles, lots of which have Janice Hill of Overload Network recommending it (she's the one who spread all kinds of horror stories about Ritalin being sold by ADHD kids outside schools - a claim now investigated and found to be untrue). As I recall, Chris Leithser (sp?) of this ng, found she had been cited some award by the $cienos, so I think we can see where her allegiances lie...
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Grymma AFPOh Goddess Of Hangovers; B.F.(use 'reply to') "Losing my mind was okay, but when the voices in my head quieted, it was like losing my best friend"
woss ...@hotmail.com (wossoyi)
Actually, maybe
woss ...@hotmail.com (wossoyi)
Here's something I read a while ago. While it seems that the study is not takling the cause of ADHD, it does show that children without ADHD can show symptoms of ADHD (such as hyperactivity and temper tantrums) if their diets are spiked with certain additives. The conclusion would be that there's possibly a portion of children diagnosed with ADHD that are only be sensitive to certain additives and only show symptoms only when exposed to them (which could easily be all the time). I mean, there's no reason to see if you're not one of those people. Just change your diet for a month, if there's no difference, you know you have adhd, if there is, you know you shouldn't touch additive. Pretty simple i would say.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040528.wxhfood28... Food additives such as colourings and preservatives seem to play a ''substantial'' role in making young children hyperactive and prone to tantrums, new research suggests.
During the study, conducted on a group of British three-year-olds, parents said their children were markedly more active, inattentive and short-tempered when fed a diet heavy in food additives and noticeably calmer when their diet was stripped of additives.
In fact, the number of children cl***ified as hyperactive fell to 6 per cent from 15 per cent with the change in diet, according to research published this week in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
John Warner, a professor in the Department of Child Health at the University of Southampton in England, said while the findings should be interpreted with caution, they could have potentially huge public-health repercussions for children.
That is because previous research has shown that young hyperactive children are at high risk of continuing behavioural difficulties, such as poor social adaptation and educational problems.
"These findings suggest that significant changes in children's hyperactive behaviour could be produced by the removal of artificial colourings and preservatives from their diet," Dr. Warner said.
The study was conducted over a four-week period on 277 children living on the Isle of Wight.
During the first week, their diet was stripped of all artificial colourings and preservatives. During the next three weeks, the children were given an extra gl*** of juice daily: The drink was either "spiked" with 20 milligrams daily of food colourings such as tartrazine, sunset yellow, and carmoisine, as well as with 45 milligrams of the common preservative sodium benzoate, or it contained a placebo.
According to the British Food Commission, about 40 per cent of food and drinks marketed to children contain these additives, in doses similar to those added by the research team.
Parents involved in the study were not aware when the children were getting extra food additives, but were asked to keep a daily diary of their behaviour. During the period when they were getting extra colourings and preservatives in their diet, the children were notably more hyperactive.
Dr. Warner said researchers were not able to note this increase in hyperactivity in any formal test, so that left him a bit "dubious" about the results. But he added that with young children, the observations of parents are probably accurate, so the results should be probed further.
He also said it was important that the study was done on a broad cross-section of children. Much of the earlier research was conducted on children who were already hyperactive, and it was largely inconclusive.
In this case, children who, before entering the study, had been diagnosed as hyperactive or as suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, were not unduly affected by the food additives. Rather, children were affected across the board.
The link between food additives and children's health was a popular media topic in the late 1970s. In fact, U.S. allergist Benjamin Feingold published the popular Feingold diet, in which he advocated a diet free of more than 300 food additives to treat hyperactivity. But in 1982, a panel of the U.S. National Institutes of Health determined there was no scientific evidence to support the claims that colourings and preservatives caused hyperactivity.
Interest in the subject, however, has been renewed by the escalating rates of ADHD in children.
fred ...@bolox.net
Typical uk doctors, `diet effective` means get on with it yourself and don`t use up our meagre budget on expensive drugs, even tho the gov tax us to the hilt for the NHS.
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