Why do ADD products contain phenylalanine?

[rga1863]

Why do the ADD help-products primarily contain phenylalanine?  Does this lead to dementia in the future?  How much phenylalanine is too much for a non-phenylketonuric to ingest daily?  If phenylalanine is a product in aspartame and has been linked to so many problems, including dementia, why is it included in supplements for kids with ADD / ADHD?

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

Sorry, I don't have the slightest idea about how to answer this. I think you should ask a pharmacologist this question.

[sunfëll]

Because Psychiatry is a eugenics movement and they hate your kids, especially minority children. Maybe because psychiatrist T.L. Pinklington, vice president and member of the World Federation of Mental Health from 1966-1970, stated in the July issue of The Practitioner that children with “cognitive deficits and emotional immaturity” should be the target of “a modern eugenic program ... or some form of legalized euthanasia.”



Or maybe I'm just reading things wrong. I'm sure there is some research that backs up this medication and all of its dubious ingredients.

[hangin'in there!]

Sunfell, you're a tripper!!  I agree that attention deficit disorder in kids is like dermatitis on skin; a little irritating, maybe even debilitating in rare cases, but not well diagnosed enough for serious medication!! There are other ways to treat the symptoms without the use of harsh drugs that arn't gaurenteed to work anyway.



Don't accept being labled as having ADD!  There's probably more evidence to suggest bahavioural problems in children are caused by stress or other emotional factors in a childs life than from some sort of brain dysfunction! "ADD" is in my opinion a bogus illness, I was diagnosed with it as a child, as soon as I moved out home I was 'miraculously cured'. Divine intervention or problems at home, you tell me?  Dr. called it ADHD and you would think he would know. I never accepted a barre of it and I'm happy and functional ... 95% of the time anyway!



Get your grandchild to a  child psycologist on regular basis and I believe you will be surprised at what this little tacker is going through! You will then resent the medications and bogus diagnosis that make everyone sigh in sympathy for the parents, without a thought for the "naughty" child.



Sunfell is as subtle as a brick, but there again I suspect is a person that 'suffered' a similar diagnosis and medication regime as your grandchild.  The point remains that there is a lot of cover up child abuse cases being diagnosed with ADHD. I was one.



A DR. cannot diagnose either case properly in one or two visits.  BEFORE a diagnosis is made, every child to be medicated for the disorder should, I believe, have a set number of mandantory sessions with a qualified child behavioural therapist.  This would primarily be to rule out child neglect/abuse as a possible cause for the ADHD symptoms reported. ONLY after you have illiminated these possibilities should you consider a mental illness is involved.



Well there's my 2cents!!  Hope it helps someone...