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Maureen
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I have a 9yo ds with attention problems. He takes foooreeever to complete his work. For example, today I left him with a page of simple math to complete while I went to attend to other things. 30 minutes later he had only completed about 20% of the page. He said that it was too hard and that he was so confused. (It was a review page of relatively easy problems for him.)
He was able to complete them after I pointed to each problem one at a time.
I know that he may have ADD. He has a cousin who had similar problems who also struggles in school. This cousin is now on Ritalyn, and his grades have improved.
I do not wish to put my ds on medication if at all possible. Does anyone have any natural remedies which might help his attention problem?
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Maureen,
I have heard that Omega fish oil is suppose to help but we tried it for 6 months and saw no change. But lots of people say it works. If your child can't swallow large capsules, they make a pudding type that doesn't taste too bad called coramega. It is orange flavored. You might do a search on fish oil and ADD because there is a certain amount of the DHA that they need to make it beneficial and not all have the same levels.
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LLMom wrote:
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We use (not nearly as consistently as we should) Coromega. I noticed quite a difference with my son after using two envelopes, twice a day, for a week. Once we combined Coromega with dietary changes, we saw even more improvement in his attention. The dietary changes recommended to us were to move toward a low(er) carb, high(er) protein diet, eating foods that remember where they came from. The less processing, the better, in other words, along the lines of a South Beach or Zone diet eating style, but not following the "rules" of either of those diets rigidly. Lots of vegetables, protein at every meal and snack, fewer thoughtless simple carbs like white bread and rice.
The whole family made these changes, and the whole family found out we *all feel better when we eat this way. We all had more energy and and some of us (cough, cough) had fewer low moods. 
You're reminding me to get back on the wagon!  I've noticed I've had a bad case of ADD since the cookie baking of Christmas started...
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Maureen,
Here is an interesting hospital study on herbs for ADD.
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Maureen, this isn't a remedy as such but something that we discovered about ADD symptoms. Our dd with vision problems (she had 20/20 acuity so nothing ever showed up wrong in regular eye doc visits) had every symptom on the symptom list of ADD - actually that is what I began to suspect when we began looking for why we were struggling with different things and didn't want to do the ritilin route. I decided to keep a notebook and figure out what helped and didn't since we were homeschooling and could adjust the program to her. She was diagnosed with the vision problem and we found out that a lot of children get the ADD diagnosis when what they need is vision therapy. Anyways, you may want to look at the pavevision.org website - there is a brochure listing symptoms of learning related vision problems, ADD, sensory integration issues, allergies. Evidently they all can have very similiar symptoms. If you have never had testing for the vision problems, it might really be worthwhile. It made a huge difference for us. Our testing was covered by vision insurance as if it were a regular eye exam and then the extended testing was covered by medical (since we know had a "diagnosis". We went to a developmental optometrist who is a fellow from the college of optometry, vision development.
I do remember being baffled why sometimes my dd seemed to be able to do a problem and other times she seemed to shut down. We found that too many problems on the page or too crowded or lack of contrast, etc. made some difference. Made me think of that when you said your child finally managed when you were pointing to each individual problem. Anyways, what really made a difference for us were a lot of exercises we did - nothing invasive, most of it from homemade stuff. Feel free to PM if you want more details. It just took us so long to get a diagnosis and find the problem and this is so overlooked in the medical community most of the time. It made a world of difference for our dd. I hope I'm not out of line, and if this is totally irrelevant, then please just ignore it. I just hate not to tell people because of our struggles - and the many people who have been helped around us after hearing about vision problems (even after years of thinking other things).
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Thank you all for your replies. I will be looking into adding some supplements.
Janet: There may be a vision problem. Ds is very farsighted and recently made improvements when prisms were added to his glasses. However, I do know there are other problems. He struggles with work even when it's presented orally. It's almost like the wheels in his head are moving very slowly. Sometimes he shakes his head as if to remind himself what he was supposed to be doing.
I'm at a loss as to how to get him to make faster progress. He needs to be able to get through problems in a timely manner for the required standarized tests.
Thanks for all your help.
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