FAILSAFE diet and ADHD.. any parents with success?

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  • kopmom
    kopmom Posts: 491 Member
    I have two children with ADHD.

    We see a doctor who only works with children with adhd and her first course of action always is the Feingold Diet. Plus avoiding red dye, artificial ingredients and HFCS is a must
  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    I haven't read the responses yet, but PLEASE, if you haven't all ready, try removing all foods containing Red Dye #40 from his diet and see if it makes a difference. My son was an absolute nightmare in kindergarten and first grade: inattentive, combative, peevish, and unable to cope. We finally removed the Red Dye 40 (he was eating Doritos every day for lunch!) and we saw a huge improvement. Now, we can tell if he's consumed even a single orange Reese's Pieces. The difference is that stark.

    Read ALL labels, even ones you assume are fine. Sneaky red dye can be in not just red foods, but also blue, purple, orange, brown and even golden ones. We've found it in medicine, yogurt, chips, chewing gum, juices, vitamins, iced tea, pies, dinner rolls, and so much more.

    I always recommend to parents that they give it 2 weeks, but we were able to see a change in our son within 48 hours. And, at 6-years-old, he was reading his own food labels at school and was alerting the teacher to foods that he couldn't have. He hated the way the dye made him feel.


    *** TL;DR: Remove red dye from his diet for 2 weeks and see if it helps.

    I agree 100%.
    We limit the red food dye (Not just for him, for us!!)
    It's crap. Yellow is derived from PETROLEUM!!!

    I know when he's had food dyes too, he's off the wall, moody, cries at the drop of a hat...

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