Curing ADD In Children

Reference: http://www.cbn.com/health/naturalhealth/drsears_ADD.aspx

Summary: In the last couple of year’s attention deficit disorder otherwise known as ADD has been announced as an epidemic in the United States.  Three to five percent of children today have it.  There are actually 6 different types of ADD.  One of the things that happen when you have ADD is the deficiency of the neurotransmitter dopamine.  One of the drugs used to help with ADD is to take Ritalin.  Ritalin is to get everything under control in your body and increases your dopamine.  Children with ADD have a higher silent inflammation profile than normal.  The problem then with ADD is that it goes deeper than just having a low dopamine level.  Studies show that a high dose of fish oil helps stop silent inflammation, which in turn can help ADD because it increases the dopamine level and helps the dopamine receptors in the brain.  This is then posing the question that maybe the bigger cause of ADD is lack of nutrition.  

Critique: I never really new what ADD was until now.  Taking Ritalin might now be the answer to solving this problem.  I think that taking an all natural approach before trying a drug that is actually very strong is a smart idea.  After all it cannot hurt to try.

Impact: If taking fish oil can really help with curing ADD I think this would be a huge breakthrough.  Not having to put a child through the affects of Ritalin would be an awesome thing.