What stimulates ADHD?

Answer 1

ADD is where you cannot focus or stay organized or be on time or remember where you put things. You tend to be mellow, sometimes reserved, a reader-studier-writer-you like puzzles-movies. ADHD is the above but with a hyper aspect to it. You feel like you are bouncing of the walls and when you are younger you really do bounce jump, climb, hop, fidget, poke, tease.....you have a hard time with reading, writing, anything that requires concentration or being still is almost impossible. What stimulates it is typically food Allergies. I am not ADD or ADHD but I am the daughter of a ADHD mother, I have two brothers that are ADHD, I was married to a man with ADHD and I have a son that has ADHD. So without having it I know ADHD first hand. My son is extremely allergic to all dairy. If he has a yogurt or a piece of cheese and he goes from mellow to hyper in a minute. My mom is allergic to dairy. My brother is allergic to potatoes. Odd but true. But there are other triggers too. If you get too hungry or do not eat enough protein you will get irritable and cranky. Boredom, you need to be constantly doing something. It is usually something physical, reading is not something that you have the patience for. Hyperactivity sufferers many times turn to drugs to even out how they feel and the hyperness they feel in their head. If they do not turn to drugs or alcohol many times they will self medicate with sugar & caffeine. It is a cycle of high and low. When you feel low you will eat/drink something high in sugar and/or caffeine to get that high and then when you get that low again you use sugar or caffeine What helps? Find out what you are allergic to and stay away from those foods. Eat really healthy and eat often. Smaller meals every two or so hours and that will help keep the highs and lows even. Limit sugar and caffeine. Also check if you are low in any cell salts as many times ADHD sufferers crave salt because they are low in one.