Jean ADHD

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Hi,

I used to care for my niece when my older sister burned out. She and her

younger brother were a year apart. I had her for a few weeks (with her

brother) when she was about 4 years old. She was the sweetest little angel

and then 20 minutes after meals, snacks sometimes (not always for either

food session) she would have her face darken, and she was then like a little

animal.

 

I love her very much and it just broke my heart when she would flail

herself down on the floor screaming and hitting out at things or people. She

leveled my brother's breakables in under 3 minutes once. Perhaps, what broke

my heart the most was the third day I was babysitting her (I was around 19

at the time) she was flailing, she was also crying, too, I am so sorry to be

like this, Aunt Linda. I mean, my heart just broke for her. Turned out she

was allergic to tomatoes. No tomatoes or tomatoes type products and that

little angel was around all the time not just part of the time. The only

problem was that she seemed to have developed a processing problem from the

delay in figuring this all out (missed some early building block learning

somehow in the way the food reacted on her brain) and yet, in spite of that,

she was a straight " A " student in school (of course she sweated bullets

doing this). Soy has the same effect on my older son (only without the

violence). For him, his brain just disconnects. We used to have no soy for

him and zinc supplements...now he can have some in moderation and he cycles

zinc through; he seems to have no problems with it now.

 

My niece is very bright and I wish I could have mothered her as I have my

own sons. My older sister was more of the premise of " If it can be ignored,

then its not important enough to do anything about it " . (And of course if

the child could not be blamed/ held responsible for it.) And when it came to

diet, they ate everything and it usually had nothing much in it besides corn

syrup. Nothing was moderated or moderate. So, to eliminate the tomatoes and

have her be halfway ok meant that tomatoes was really doing some thing lousy

for her.

 

Linda Lane

 

Message: 19

Sun, 2 Sep 2001 20:49:11 -0500

" oldglory " <oldglory

ADHD

 

Hi Steve,

 

I think this is more than just attention deficit. He has mood swings and

you can see his face darken when it hits him. When it hits, it like Dr.

Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. The child is just plain mean and 30 minutes later, he

is as sweet as only a child can be. This goes on over and over again,

through the day. Age 9 and very bright.

 

I will suggest the gymnema sylvestre to the mother, as something to try,

that won't hurt anything. If it helps him, then it surely will be plain it

is a blood sugar problem.

 

If not, she could check out possible allergies to foods.

 

I find it odd how so many children are diagnosed as having ADHD. I would be

interested in any information on studies on this problem. For instance, do

children who have a vegetarian, or strictly wholesome diet, have this

disorder?

 

Thank you,

 

Jean Baugh

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