Hi! This is Dr. Anthony Kane, from addadhdadvance.com with an ADHD treatment tip for you. What I'm going to discuss today is alternative medicines particularly the problems with alternative medicine. Now, many people think that I am against using conventional medicine for treating ADHD and that's not true. It's also not true that I'm completely pro using alternative medications for ADHD treatment. The truth is, I'm really for using appropriate treatment, whichever way that may go. But here I will discuss the problems of the alternative treatment as they are presented today.
So I will discuss what is the problem with ADHD treatment using alternative medicines? The real problem is that generally speaking, it's not done properly. So whatever happens is this in the world. Some science will come out with a theory or some evidence that a certain treatment, say B6 or Omega 3 fatty acids cure ADHD or help with ADHD.
Now some other company will pick it up, take that treatment and make a special pill with all the things that people say together, throw together and then work for ADHD. The problem is this. Each of these treatments require the proper dosage in the proper amount for your child. Now if you read the research carefully, you'll find that for proper dosage of every treatment that people use in these mix together, alternative treatments, they are trying to have a proper dosage, you have to take, have to take 40 or 50 pills a day. It just will not fit in one capsule. It can't.
But because there is no controls over alternative medicine, they just take the research as evidence, put stuff together and sell it to you as a treatment which may work for a time, as all placebos do, and may not. But the problem is -- that's the first problem. The real problem is that these things are not controlled and some of these alternative treatments, in the wrong dosage for the wrong child, can be dangerous.
People think alternative medicine is safe, it's natural. That's not true. There are many things that are natural that are dangerous. Strychnine's natural, cyanide's natural, also hemlock is natural. There are all sorts of poisons out there that you can take. And even things like B6, a natural vitamin, can be dangerous in the wrong dosage. There are various things that they take and it's harm to your child. And since there are no controls, there's no guarantee you're getting something that's safe, something that work, something that won't work.
So that's the basic problem with alternative medicines which I recommend if you're going to go the alternative route, and I do suggest you do that, at least look into this, and you have to know what's going on or at very least follow somebody you can trust, who will tell you the proper dosage, what the treating and really approach you with reason and scientifically, rather than just throw whatever capsule someone says is good for you to take today.
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