From: yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Attention Deficit Disorder Resources
Date: 5 Oct 92 11:45:40 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <16747@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.130847.7837@ll.mit.edu> yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich) writes:
>>
>>	"ADD" is a falacy.  The majority if not all kids/people
>>	with this type of behaviour/attention "disorder" is due
>>	to allergic/sensitivity reactions to various foods and
>>	things in their environment.
>>
>>	Prescribing something like Ritalin for "ADD", is like
>>	taking "downers" to counteract the "uppers" you just took.
>> 
>
>If you are going to post mush-headed superstitions, please delete
>sci.med from the heading.  ADD is a disease, it is not related
>to allergies, which is an immune response to foreign bodies.
>I'm not saying that ADD children don't have behavioral sensitivities
>to certain substances (give one a dose of barbiturate, if you doubt
>me, they will be on the ceiling), but that is not the *cause* of the
>disorder.
>

	If you read about it or ask doctors, you will find that they
	are in agreement that they do not "know the cause" of ADD,
	nor why "Ritalin" works.  So there is evidence from the very
	source of your "experts".  Doctors don't even know what they
	are doing.  They give your kid something to make him/her
	shut the fuck up, and parents are happy.



>Ritalin works.  It has been validated in controlled studies to work,

	You know, vallium works ,too!  Also, smoking a joint several
	times a day helps.  COUNTLESS controlled studies show this.

	Watch "People are Talking" this Friday at 12:30, channel 4,
	in the Boston area (WBZ).  Dr. Rapp from Buffalo N.Y. will
	be on.  She is a national expert on the subject.  Who knows,
	you might see my wife & her friend.

	And if you need furthur evidence that people/doctors falsely 
	diagnose kids as having ADD, here's 2 points.

	1) I'll give you the phone number of our neighbor.  Her son
	was on Ritalin.  After reading our Feingold literature she
	weaned him off Ritalin over the Summer, eliminating foods
	he's sensitive to.  He's fine.  A case in point right next door.

	2) You will notice the story in my letter about how my wife took
	our daughter for a routine checkup.  The nurse (not doctor, nurse)
	asked a few questions about our daughters energy level (high).
	On the report she wrote that our daughter has ADD (or ADHD).
	My wife got the report and erased it.  This is how kids get
	labeled.  But a bunch of doctors who don't even (by their own
	admission) know what they're doing, by nurses who think they
	know it all, and by a public who still idolizes doctors.



>and improves the performance of the child.  And if, like most
>"alternative types" you want testimonial evidence rather than
>scientific evidence, just ask any parent
>that has an ADD kid, and they'll tell you.  I grant that many children

	See #1 above.  Ask HER!  She will tell you.

	But they could always give them a stiff drink!


>are falsly diagnosed by teachers and GPs, and that you should take
>your child to a pediatric neurologist or pediatric psychiatrist before
>accepting Ritalin treatment.  But it does work.

	So do downers.
	

	The premise is to *remove* the object which is causing the
	problem, not to counteract "uppers" with "downers".

	We gave that up in the 60's.

-- 
	Alan Yasutovich
	"inquiring  (and nosey) minds WANT TO KNOW!!!"
	I can remember when "safe sex" meant having a padded headboard!!
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