An Alternate Method of Managing the Hyperactive Child
- 1 November 1974
- journal article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Vol. 54 (5) , 656
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.54.5.656
Abstract
I'm writing to report an alternate method of managing the hyperactive child which has received scant notice in the medical literature: dietary manipulation with the avoidance of foods which appear to cause adverse reactions in the nervous system. As long ago as 1923, a Minnesota pediatrician, Shannon,1 told of seven children whose fretfulness, restlessness and irritability dramatically improved when one or more foods were removed from their diets. And when the foods were added back, the symptoms returned.Keywords
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