Do you want the good news or the bad news first? I have decided - good news first! Duke University Medical Center reports that the popular ADHD drugs (Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta) do not represent any risk in getting cancer. The second piece of good news is that the National Resource Center on ADHD has now come out and stated that the vast majority of research findings show that additives in food do not cause ADHD or hyperactivity in children. At least this is valid for the USA as The British Food Agency came to the opposite conclusion.

Now for some bad news! Many parents think that ADHD is a problem which will solve itself over time and that the child will grow out of it and do not bother to seek help for ADHD. This is the reason why many parents ignore it and also why the condition goes undiagnosed with disastrous results. Apart from the fact that an untreated ADHD child will have academic and social problems, there is also the risk that they will have sex before the age of 15 and when they do, this is often unprotected leading to pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease. Similarly those teens who have low self esteem, underachieve at school and watch a lot of TV fall into this particular risk group.

There is a risk too for the parents of ADHD children in that the condition very often puts a strain on the marital relationship ,often resulting in divorce. This is especially the case where parents do not seek help for ADHD. The University of Buffalo have done a study where they found that the parents of attention deficit hyperactive children were twice as likely to seek a divorce by the time the child is 8 years old. This study involved 500 families. A similar large scale study in Canada found that a third of parents were at risk but 18% claimed that they had become closer as a result of their child's condition.

If your child is prescribed with conventional psychostimulants such as Adderall, Ritalin or Concerta, you need to know that there are side effects which need to be considered carefully. One side effect is that they often suppress the child's appetite. The poor parent needs to make sure that the child is eating nutritious meals and has to watch very carefully to make sure that an eating disorder is not going to affect the child's development. They have to pack lots of nutritional food into each serving, make sure they have a high-protein breakfast and take lots of other precautions.

If you are seeking help for ADHD, you may feel that all the above news about conventional medications (not to mention the risk of heart problems) is really scary and that there must be

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