What Are Alternative Treatments Besides Medication For Children With ADHD?

There are a number of alternative treatments for Children with ADHD. You can contact a psychotherapist to help you out in various behavioral treatments like the following:
- Positive Reinforcement: Providing rewards on completing a task
- Time-out: Prohibiting access to positive reinforcement on an unwanted or problem behavior.
- Response cost: Withdrawing rewards on unwanted behavior.
- Token economy: Offer rewards and privileges on performing desired behavior and withdraw rewards on undesirable behavior.
- Diet: Minimize dairy products, junk food, chocolate, processed meat, fried food, food coloring, fruit juices and nutrasweet from their diet. Add them one by one and see the effect on the behavior. Food with strong reactions must be removed from the diet.
- You can use herbs like Chamomile, Evening Primrose Oil, Fresh Lemon balm, and Gotu Kola for treatment of this disease.

My son was diagnosed with AdHD, The Medication made him cranky when it wore off. He had mood swings out of this world. I took him off the med. Taught him breathing exercises to calm himself down, got him into yoga, and martial Arts and promised if he did his best and could only make a C, then I would accept the C.He was true to his word, came in a did his homework first and made straight 'A's in Conduct, keeping up a 2.8 to 3.0 grade average. He is now in College doing exceedingly well.

There is such thing as adhd give your kid aproper and nutritious diet and you will see the change