•ADHD Holiday Help Tips
ADHD Holiday Help Tips by Jeannine VirtueQuote of the Day: "The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give." - Eleanor RooseveltHoliday ADHD Help Tips:Ahhh, the holidays - happiness, warmth, family togetherness, peace, joy…That is the goal, but try matching that with the reality of holidays with an Attention Deficit and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder child. The holidays can be especially taxing on the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity child. There...
•Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
by: Jeannine Virtue
Attention Deficit Disorder tends to focus predominately on children, leaving the ADD adult largely under served. Most of the information presented about Attention Deficit Disorder focuses on children, parenting and school issues. All but one ADHD medication currently on the market achieved FDA approval for adult Attention Deficit Disorder treatment.
Attention Deficit Disorder simply was not in vogue when the adult of today was a child...
•Calming Tips for Hyperactive Children
Calming Tips for Hyperactive Children
by: Jeannine Virtue
Parents of hyperactive children know the "Would you please just settle down?!" phrase well, and likely use it on a regular basis.
There are a number of tips to help parents settle their hyperactive child down. These quick tips and relaxation techniques take the same amount of time as yelling and scolding but produce incredibly different results in hyperactive children.
Quick Calming Tips:
Try quick tips to calm a hyperactive...
•Concerta: Benefits and Side Effects
Concerta: Benefits and Side Effects
by: Jeannine Virtue
A number of ADHD medications are hitting the market, joining the old Ritalin standby. Concerta, in its relatively short existence, has already grabbed a sizeable portion of the ADHD medication market share.
Although Concerta offers a number of advantages over the older ADHD medications, it also has several side effects that people with Attention Deficit and parents of Attention Deficit children should be aware of before administering...
•Homework Help for the Attention Deficit Child
Homework Help for the Attention Deficit Child
by: Jeannine Virtue
Does the homework battle so typical with your hyperactive or A.D.D. child have you at the end of your rope? Relax. We have some tried-and-try ADHD information that should get your A.D.D. child on the right homework path.
The hyperactive or A.D.D. child especially needs consistency, a work place free of distractions, solid encouragement and praise - along with established consequences if the positive homework tips fail....
•Natural Progesterone and Estrogen as an Alternative to HRT
Natural Progesterone and Estrogen as an Alternative to HRT
by: Jeannine Virtue
A Dec. 30, 2003 Associated Press article stated that about one quarter of women who stopped taking hormone replacement therapy because of its risks wind up resuming HRT because of menopause misery.
This article verifies what we have been saying all along; "No treatment is NOT an option." Women need an alternative treatment to hormone replacement therapy. Otherwise, their lives can be quite miserable.
Almost...
•Nature, An ADHD Natural Treatment
Nature, An ADHD Natural Treatment
by: Jeannine Virtue
My mother’s warning; “You are going to rot your brain out...” still rings through my mind whenever I spend too much time in front of the television set.
I grew up in a time when mothers shooed their children out - rain, snow or shine - to get a breath of fresh air. Our television set tuned in to only four or five channels and those channels signed off at midnight. It would be years before cable television, satellite dish, VCRs and...
•Should You Take Ritalin?
At least 3.3 million Americans currently take medications to ease the symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder. The majority of these medications are amphetamine-based stimulants.
The doctors prescribe these drugs, but that does not mean they are necessarily safe, says the Federal Drug Administration which is currently looking at placing strong warnings on stimulant ADD medications like Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta.
An FDA advisory panel voted in February to recommend that all stimulant...
•Strattera, the New ADHD Medication
Strattera, the New ADHD Medication by Jeannine Virtue The newest ADHD medication Strattera (atomoxetine) is expected to hit the pharmacy shelves this month to much ado. What separates Strattera (atomoxetine) from the rest of the ADHD medications pack is that Strattera (atomoxetine) is the first non-stimulant medication FDA-approved for Attention Deficit Disorder. Strattera (atomoxetine) is not a controlled substance under the Controlled Substance Act, which translates to the convenience of...
•The New ADHD Medications
The New ADHD Medications by Jeannine Virtue Pharmaceutical companies vying for Ritalin’s hefty market share are coming up with new formulas and aggressive campaign ads to compete in this $1 billion per year ADHD drug industry. Pharmaceutical companies introduced five new drugs to treat ADHD in the past five years, with another ADHD drug expected on the market in early 2003 and more are being developed. The relative newcomers Adderall and the drug Concerta are now joined by Metadate CD,...
•What is ADHD?
What is ADHD?
by: Jeannine Virtue
It seems that the "What is ADHD" question is not very easy to answer, despite the plethora of studies, research and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity testing over the past decades.
In asking the question, "What is ADHD," it is easier to answer by describing what ADHD is not. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder testing and research has not proven that ADHD is a medical condition. There is no concrete research that supports that Attention Deficit and...
•“Nutrition as Attention Deficit Disorder ADHD Alternative Treatment: Help is as Close as the Kitchen.”
“Nutrition as Attention Deficit Disorder ADHD Alternative Treatment: Help is as Close as the Kitchen.”
by: Jeannine Virtue
The quality of food we eat (or lack thereof) has a profound affect on Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD. For many people, nutrition alone can effectively work as an ADHD alternative treatment.
A growing body of research points to nutritional deficiencies - especially with essential fatty acids and amino acids - as a contributing factor of Attention Deficit Disorder...
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