Some Reasons for Children Behaving Badly
"Children with early-stage brain tumors can develop symptoms of hyperactivity or poor attention. So can lead or pesticide-poisoned children. So can children with early-onset diabetes, heart disease, worms, viral or bacterial infections, malnutrition, head injuries, genetic disorders, allergies, mercury or manganese exposure, petit mal seizures, and hundreds—yes hundreds—of other minor, major, or even life-threatening medical problems. Yet all these children are labeled hyperactive or ADD." Dr. Sydney Walker, III Psychiatrist & Neurologist Author, The Hyperactivity Hoax
Dr. Doris Rapp is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the State University of New York and Author of the New York Times Best Seller, "Is This Your Child?" As an authority on allergies and looking for underlying causes to children misbehaving, she's found, "Over-activity, fatigue, bed-wetting, inappropriate behavior, and even epilepsy, in some children, may be due to allergies. Allergic infants can be so hyperactive that they rock their cribs about the room or bounce them off the walls and begin to walk earlier than normal."
As the following list shows, a few of the things that can look like symptoms of "ADHD" but they are actually either "allergic" reactions, toxic poisoning or the result of a lack of vitamins (nutrition) or minerals in the body:
- High levels of lead from the environment can place children at risk of both school failure and delinquent (bad) behavior.
- High mercury (chemical) levels in the body may cause agitation.
- Mercury amalgam dental fillings can affect a small but significant number of people, causing mercury sensitivity leading to headaches, restless behavior, and irritability.
- Pesticides (like those used to kill insects such as fly spray or ant-killer) can create nervousness, poor concentration, irritability, memory problems, and depression.
- Iron-deficiency anemia can lead to despondency, fatigue and often aggression and irritability.
- Too much sugar can make a person "too active" or "hyper."
- Our modern-day fast food, which can lack nutritional value, can also make you feel terrible.
- Temporal lobe seizures, sometimes almost continuous and often too subtle to be detected by the eye, can cause violent outbursts, restless movements, and bizarre behavior.
- Hyperthyroidism can manifest the symptoms of "hyperactivity."
- Mineral deficiencies such as iron and zinc can cause 'hyperactivity' and agression.
- Food colouring and preservatives can be a common cause of hyperactivity and aggression.
Informed health practitioners in the field of nutrition carry out a range of tests to determine if a person is having an allergic reaction to something or is deficient in some way. It is vital that anyone suffering these reactions are properly medically tested and this would be one of the first things to check when diagnosing the cause of excessive or unusual behaviour in children.
