please recommend some diet & supplement ideas for my 7r old boy that has ADD?

Try removing foods that contain artifical colors from his diet.

i was diagnosed with ADHD when i was in 3rd grade (before everyone was using it as an excuse cause they are lazy). Im 18 now, a year earlier my dad told me about some new research on the subject. It says that obviously the first step is for the kid to know he should pay attention. Next step would be to start taking Omega 3 pills (cod liver oil gel capsules) which you can find at any department store like wal-mart or target. take around 3 everyday because only half the pill is actually being absorbed for the purpose to help the ADD/ADHD so your really only gettin about 1.5 of the pills going towards fixing the ADD/ADHD (hard to explain). Well this should be started and probably wont really start partially curing it for 2-3 weeks beacuase you need a build up of this omega 3 in the body. For a temporary and daily cure i personally take a medication called Concerta which is a safer more natural type form of aderahl that doesn't mess your child up as much and he won't have sush an appetite loss that you would get from aderahl. The medication is a temporary hold over while the omega 3 keeps building and being used in the right amount in his brain to fill in the chemical that is missing ( which is why he has ADD/ADHD, a chemical imbalance if you didnt know). Now i started this whole procedure about 3 weeks before school on my junior year and had NEVER gotten consistent good grades, mostly D's and C's once in a while B's (Which is the common track through school almost all ADD/ADHD kids). Well to my extreme surprise the omega 3 started kicking in and the concerta was just helping me concentrate more, i got almost all A's (also if you didn't know, studies have shown kids with ADD/ADHD to have higher IQ's then average kids, the problem is they never have enough attention to show it.) I made one mistake which is thinking i was cured after 6 months of amazing grades in hard classes, i stopped taking it. well the build up lasted for the summer but when my senior year started as my college prep classes did, my grades suffered and i got my old grades again and immediately started my procedure again, its about 3 weeks later and my grades are already raising quickly. By the way i was taking 18mg of the meds but it might vary with your child.

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Hope this works or helps with your child. i dont know if age has anything to do with it.

Good for you... natural treatment is always preferred to drugs (although I appreciate them if necessary). Here's a site with info....

http://www.add-adhd-infoplus.com/supplements-and-a...

Your local health food store should be able to recommend supplements. As widespread as ADD symptoms are, I'm sure they've been asked this question before.

This may seem overly simple, but I'm sure avoiding sugar (esp. sodas) and white flour is definitely on the top of the list. Some protein in the morning is good to get the brain going (nuts or cheese), and I know turkey has tryptophan which has a calming effect. You may want to make sure he doesn't have any food allergies.. milk is #1.

These are just a few notes, but you're on the right track. Diet and supplements can have a huge effect. Take care.

See a specialist and have him FORMALLY diagnosed, with learning disorder screening and all. For all you know you've got it all backwards, my nephew was misdiagnosed with ADHD and turned out to have highly functioning autism and they'd been doing the wrong things to help him in school all along. And when he's older, he will need the formal diagnosis to get accommodations at school should he need them. I was formally diagnosed at age 8, and now that I am in college, even though I have been rediagnosed four or five times, that one formal diagnosis is the only thing that has helped me deal with the school.

That said, as someone who went through school with ADD in recent years, if he's struggling in school you should be very careful about how much experimenting you do with diet and vitamins. For me, it has made little to NO difference, and in the meantime I was falling behind and I am in college now and STILL trying to catch up. IF he is diagnosed, and there's NO reason to jump to conclusions on that, have a good long talk with his doctor about what is best for his health and his education, and do that. Not what makes you feel fuzzy inside. If diet and vitamins help him, then that's fabulous and I'm happy for him, but if not don't let him fall behind just because meds aren't ideal if the other options don't work.

Kudos for not wanting to jump immediately into meds. Good for you!!

Please consider eliminating all food colors, preservatives, and artificial anything from his diet. With my son, it turned out to be food colorings that triggered his Inattentive Type ADD. I also discovered that he did better when his foods were high in protein and low carbohydrate and sugar. With my son, breakfast was usually yogurt with a pork chop or steak. Lots of egg salad sandwiches for lunch (cream cheese and ham roll ups work well too) and even more protein at night. What carbs he gets are whole grain and organic whenever possible. Omega 3's are supplemented also.

Check out www.goaskmom.com for other ideas on how to help cope with ADD.

Protein, protein, protien is the best answer by far. I have a 7 year old son who eas diagnoised with adhd at age 5 he takes yvanse which hleps him. They say eating protein in the morning b/f school will make a child more focused. Yougurt is the best source it has 10grams which is really alot.Eggs and sausage are really good as well.

ADD is a problem occurring in the brain that reacts with things that make u hyper usually will make a child with ADD calm down if you don't want to use medicine you can use such home remedies such as coffee. Anything that for a normal person it would make hyper or more active you can give to your child with ADD and it will give them the opposite effect.

Thirty years ago, my husband’s parents tore up the prescription their pediatrician gave them to control his ADHD because they refused to medicate him.

Instead they put him on an elimination diet. The concept is that you cut your kid down to nothing but plain white rice and slowly add in other foods until you figure out the cause. They ended up figuring out that red food dye is the cause of his problem. I can’t tell any difference in his behavior when he consumes red food dye, but to this day his parents can be around him after he’s eaten something red and notice a change in his behavior.

http://www.everydiet.org/diet/elimination-diet

He has never taken meds for this a day in his life. Something else that’s really important is to make sure your child is getting as much physical activity as possible. As long as its warm enough, send him outside to play every day. Let him wear himself out!

Watch the sugars and make sure he gets more protein and Omega-3's. There are vitamins for kids now if they can't handle eating more fish

non-regiment exercise. shouldn't be hard for a kid with ADD. buy him a bicycle.