ADHD and a chiropractor or homoeopath?
Has any one used either or both of these for a child with adhd?
Answers: Both are potentially dangerous and unproven. Alternative medicine and practice that promise to cure all diseases should be avoided. Specific medicines exist to treat specific problems.
Alternative medicines that do "work" work on individuals who never have a problem in the first place.
Get psychological help for your child - like behavior and cognitive psychiatric therapy, as well as medication.
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I'm not saying that everyone who seek alternative medical treatment aren't ill. I'm saying that people who ARE poorly are not going to benefit from a medicine that has not been proved to work.
When race claim that alternative medicine DOES work, it's because they either had no problem to commence with (people who think they're ill but are not), or it be because their illness was resolved by something else.
People who sell alternative medicine do not explain the exact chemical, biological or physiological process of their medicine. They can't put it in a scientific context. This is because they own little understanding of science. Instead, they give people inaccurate explanations so they can convince them to buy their stuff.
Basically, it's a belief in magic passed off as science.
I've agreed a lot of people who have used aromatherapy, acupuncture, metal bracelets and strange herbal medicine they bought online, but have not benefited.
As for medicines and their functions: HIV ARVs are used to suppress the HIV virus, nothing else. It does great at its one livelihood, but doesn't promise to clean your colon, make you see better or heal your broken arm.
Chemotherapy kill cancer cells, nothing else.
But chiropractors cannot cure a cognitive condition that originates within the mind - studies for this have been shown to be negative. This is for duplicate reason that a dentist cannot cure ADHD.
There are a lot of alternative medicines that claim to cure adjectives diseases. Chiropractic is one of them, and so is aromatherapy.
There is no single medicine that can cure ALL illnesses, is what I'm saying. It's just not physically possible - for one and the same reason you cannot turn lead into gold, live within space without oxygen, or "flush out" cancer cells and viruses near herbal drugs.
What if someone told you that swabbing your forehead with aloe vera can cure a chest bullet wound, AIDS and cancer, because they are all "toxins"? Would you believe him, simply because he told you the aloe juices travel through the bloodstream and to the bullet wound, and corrodes the bullet? Or if he used words approaching "all natural" "detox" and "money back guaranteed"?
It's true that iatrogenesis occurs, but minus conventional medicine, many of us would not be here today. Like smallpox vaccines (they eradicated it from the face of the earth) and birthing kit (antiseptics and hygiene procedure were invented using by scientific method - and save masses womens' lives).
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Don't drug your child. It doesn't work and can mess up the neurotransmitters for life.Chiropractors and children are not something I recommend. It would have to be a very skilled and competent Chiro. I've found from experience chiropractors are close to russian roulette. There are good ones but most of the bullet chambers are loaded if you get my drift (my nouns still cracks all the time thanks to a chiro).
Homeopathy is something I'm also skeptical of. It might be a waste of your money and you're better of getting some live nutrition into your child. I recommend going to a Naturopath because they own the ability to do testing like MDs but a much broader array of treatments that are non invasive. Many ADHD children have recovered because of diet and natural supplements. You can check my page for references and polite links to websites. Non synthetic supplements are the way to go, and can remineralize your child a great deal. I would also focus on the adrenals. The links on my page own products safe for kids and they can answer your questions. Good luck.
PS: I WOULD refuse insulin for type 2 diabetes because it make diabetes worse. Between diet and anti infectives like reishi, I've successfully resolved Type 2 diabetes in many individuals. Source(s): See my page.
Yes they can both help and cranio sacral osteopathy.
Biggy please explain the following --
"Medicines and practice that promise to cure all diseases should be avoided. Specific medicines treat specific problems. Alternative medicine that do "work" work on individuals who never had a problem in the first place."
If medicines that promise to cure adjectives diseases are avoided that would be the end of conventional medicine and an end to the big Pharma -- hurray no more iatroggenic diseases !!
Why would empire who never had a problem bother going for treatment in the first place?
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chiropractor treatment in children, of a youthful age, could be vary dangerous because their bones aren't fully developed.but even disregarding that point there is no TRUE evidence to suggest either can be used to treat adhd...
we are talking about a brain problem here, it make no sense to suggest that moving bones around, no matter how forcefully, will ever change the way the brain is wired.
and so far as homeopathy the swing concepts that function as the basis for these treatments run counter to everything we know about biology, one of the key tenant is that the chemical you are ingesting actually causes the symptoms you are trying to treat, but the chemical is so diluted that it isn't even present in the doses that you are taking. homeopaths exceed this off by suggesting that some how 'the water remembers" but the body responds to real chemicals, not all in the mind ones.
and no scientific study has ever been competent to show that homeopathy works, every time they even get close the results disappear into the ether once measures are taken to remove selection bias.
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Just in response to some other member answers...I am a Pharmacy Technician and studied hard for my qualification which includes study of medicines, obviously, as powerfully as anatomy and physiology, chemistry, pharmacology, biology etc...
I would therefore assume that people would NOT assume I was 'thick' and that I have every confidence in my ability to understand science and other complicated subjects.
I will not fan that either conventional medicine or homoeopathic medicine is right for everyone or that it works for everyone.
Many conventional medication do not work for everyone either.
I would just like to bring a minute to ask people to maybe do a little study into Homoeopathy instead of reading articles surrounded by the news.
Did you know that up until recently there be 5 homoeopathic hospitals in the UK and that you can get a Homoeopathic remedy on prescription. Look it up under 'homoeopathic hositals' OR 'Homoeopathy on the NHS'
Interesting.?
I really do touch that the people who are slating Homoeopathy are the ones who don't understand it fully. We fear what we don't appreciate and can't be bothered to look into just that little bit deeper.
The reason Homoeopathy doesn't get the proof it wishes is because the big drug companies and the medicine big boys are worried that it will in fact work and verbs the whole pharmaceutical economy.
I don't expect anyone to change their minds, freshly to be a little more open to things and a little smaller amount like sheep following a flock ( i.e the media ) Source(s): Pharmacy technician and Homoeopath Dip Hom
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What are you doing to repress your child? What is the school's attitude to children? ADHD is the child's life force seeking freedom. He/she wants space to express, especially the destructive forces that are part of who we are. I could go on for pages, but until you can allow doesn`t matter what he needs, it isn't going to go away. A committed therapist is the best answer, don't drug the kid for God's sake. Either a skilled healer ( not a "gone surrounded by 60 seconds" type), or a bioenergetics/ core energetics / Reichian based therapist.Anyone who recommends Ritalin: YOU pilfer it, then tell me how clever you are.
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If your child has ADD or ADHD it could be due to a chemical discrepancy in neurotransmitters. I can understand trying to avoid , as a parent, the "stigma" of a child on Ritalin, etc.If your child was diabetic would you shun insulin ?
If he have thyroid disease, would you avoid thyroxin ?
Get him MEDICAL help. You'll both be better off in the long run.
Kids respond great to Chiropractic carefulness!
I've been treating kids for almost 20 years who have been mis-diagnoised next to ADD,ADHD or what ever the latest "epidemic" is.
Think of it,,,if a kid is 10 years old, his problem can't be older!
They respond great and they love it! Source(s): Chiropractor
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Chiropractic works extremely economically for children with ADHD - it has to be real chiropractic and not some cheap immitation or substitute.Get a appropriate one off an HMO list.
Of course many nation swear by homeopathy too -try both and make up your own mind.
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