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Question: My four year old is FULL of energy to the point where it just makes me tired. I cannot control him. He does not eat/drink a lot of sugar; he just gets out of bed like this. I worry about ADHD, but I do not want to put him on meds. Help! My mom has your book and it talks about magnesium, but is there a safe supplement for kids? The one I have says not for persons under 18.

Answer: You say that your four year old boy doesn't eat a lot of sugar. That can mean different things to different people. Sugar, white flour, and milk are three of the things that hyperactive kids cannot eat. So that means that he should be getting NONE of these things, or at least as close to none as you can get in today's world. Certainly NO soda pop of any kind!

Having said that, the B vitamins and magnesium are very important in calming the nervous system. In such children, I use two or three dropperfuls of a good children's liquid vitamin, an extra 50 mg. of B6 (pyridoxine HCL) and start with about 50 mg. of magnesium. The magnesium will not hurt him. If he gets too much, he will have diarrhea. These are daily doses. Get them at a Health Food Store.

Try the above for a few weeks and let me know what happens.

Dr. Wright

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