Child's Diet

Question: If you eliminate certain foods from a ADHD child's diet what can they eat? My six year old daughter has ADHD. I thought of eliminating milk, wheat, preservatives/additives, dyes, sugars, and caffeine from her diet to see if the symptoms go away. But I am not sure what to feed her except fruits and vegetables which I know she won't eat. She is on medication but it is having side effects and I am not sure to continue the medication but that is up to the doctor. Any suggestions?

Answer: One thing you can do is keep a food journal. Write down everything your child eats and how your child behaves that day. My son was NOT allergic, but INTOLERANT to dairy, eggs, raw pineapple, cashews, apples, dyes, sulftites and phosphates. If he ate those, he would act just like a child with ADHD and would have been diagnosed with that. The doctors just would not listen to me.. so I kept the food journal and was able to figure out what was causing his misbehavior, his crying, etc. Once these were taken out of his diet, he was completely wonderful. :) Hope this helps! Here is an elimination diet - you can also look at this site for food journal info: http://babyandkidallergies.com/eliminationdiet.php

Question: How does Proteins helps a child's diet? So how does proteins helps a child's diet? Does it have same functions as the basic ones??????

Answer: Helps build muscle tone and allows better metabolic health. Proteins are very important so make sure your child gets a lot of them.

Question: How can I make sure there are enough calcium in my child's diet? My 2 years old has stoped drink milk completely, are there any other food I can give to him to help him with bone growth?

Answer: Cheese and yoghurt. My daughter, who is two weeks away from her second birthday, hates milk too, but will eat yoghurt and cheese with no resistance. There are probably calcium supplements you can give, ask your local pharmacist for information :)

Question: How do you sneak veggies into your child's diet? I welcome suggestions from anyone who has great ideas! :)

Answer: For little kids: Make it fun! Ants on a log- Celery stuffed with peanut butter and let the kids put the "ants" (raisins) on. Broccoli and carrot sticks dipped in ranch dressing Make "faces" out of various veggies Sweet potatoes are usually well-liked by children, also peas, corn, and green beans. Older kids: Find new ways to cook veggies. For example, sautee onions, green peppers, mushrooms, and minced garlic in a pan with a touch of olive oil before you throw chicken in. Then the veggies have a better taste. Just try incorporating it into your meals. Give your kids a choice. Ask them if they would like their vegetable serving as a salad or as a side dish. Try www.recipezaar.com for other meal ideas with veggies! A word of advice, if YOU eat veggies and cook meals with veggies, your kids will eventually grow accostumed to eating veggies too. Let your kids have a list of "veggies I don't have to eat" and let them allow 3 entries to that list (AFTER they try it of course). But any other veggie, they HAVE to eat. This gives them some say-so in their food choices but forces them to eat the others. It also forces you to be creative in coming up with ways to prepare their veggies.

Question: What is the best age to introduce honey into a child's diet?

Answer: It's okay to start introducing honey as well as eggs after 12 months. Just introduce it slowly a little bit at a time to make sure there is no reaction.

Question: Vitamin C is important to a child's diet because it? Vitamin C is important to a child's diet because it A. prevents anemia. B. helps maintain eyes, skin, and a variety of internal organs. C. facilitates iron absorption and wound healing. D. supports development of the bones and teeth.

Answer: answer is C. (A) refers to iron, folic acid, B vitamins etc (B) refers to Vit A and E (D) is calcium and Vit. D

Question: why does the pediatrician inquire about the child's diet? a mother of a 13month old infant brings her child to the clinic because his skin has turned orange.

Answer: Because certain foods (if your child eats them too much) can turn their skin orange/yellow. This happened to my first baby. All he wanted to eat was carrots and sweet potatoes and the carotene in these foods turned his skin orange. It went away when he stopped eating them so much.

Question: If a child's diet consists of mostly milk, what nutrient is received in excess? What is likely deficient?

Answer: calcium vitamin a vitamin d are being consumed in excess. especially calcium, its good for you, but taking in too much can be bad. calcium buildups lead to kidney stones. they are lacking in many nutrients if they are having mostly milk. try getting a multivitamin and that will cover everything you need. just take it with a meal with carbs fat and protein.

Question: When has your doctor allowed peanut butter in your child's diet? My doctor has said no peanut butter until two years of age. We don't have any food allergies in the family, although my son does have eczema. But before my son was born, my pediatrician said the same thing for my daughter, who has no allergies or eczema. I've talked to other people who have heard different things from their doctors, so I guess what I'm looking for is a wide variety of answers and maybe a few sources for why there is such a wide range. When did you give your kids peanut butter? Do they have any allergies?

Answer: Your question made me do some reasearch. We were told to wait until after she was 1yo, but only for a choking hazard reason. My 3yo was 18m when she first had peanut butter (for other health reasons). My 15mo has had peanut butter already, no problems. Her doctor said it was fine. However, I will give you these two sites I found that say they shouldn't have it until they're three years old because of a risk of allergy. http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/nutrition/peanut_butter_controversy.html - http://babyparenting.about.com/od/nutritionandfeeding/f/peanutbutter.htm The 2nd one actually says that the American Academy of Pediatrics is the one that recommends the older age range. Good luck! :)

Question: In a child's diet, is golden rice good for them? (children in britain and countries that don't suffer from VAD (Vitamin A Deficiency) this is for my gcse coursework and i didn't know where to look :)

Answer: Introducing your child to whole grain foods is very good for them. Break them of the white flour/white rice habit before it starts

Question: changing a child's diet to change behaviour. help needed? my daughter is almost 3 and has some behavioural and attention difficulties. i am looking for ways to change her diet and avoid medication, but i have no idea where to start. i have heard of elimination some additives and preservatives. can anyone help me please? any useful websites or books you know of?

Answer: this is a great site (and book) that I know many have used with success. Good for you for trying diet first. What most don't realise is some kids are set of by what is considered healthy food. Many fruits and veg can be the worst things for some kids. It has something in the saltelites or something that can reat badly with kids. Hope it helps

Question: Are you careful about your child's diet? Are there any foods that you do not let your children eat? Is there any food that you force your children to eat even though they don't like the food?

Answer: still not a mommy im still a teenager!

Question: Help with a hyper child's diet? I have a very hyper child. He is NOT adhd. I have cut sugar. Doesn't help. I heard about another mother who changed her child's diet and it completely calmed her child. She cut sugars and a perservative out. Does anyone know what perservative to cut? He is not hyper from lack of activities, etc. I do not need advice about what activities to have him in etc. NO STUPID ANSWERS please!! I need some real answers. Thanks!! Hello!!! I asked for no schedule changes, etc!! And no stupid answers!! I keep him really busy with activities, indoor and outdoor. He watches hardly any t.v and plays hardly any game system games. I have cut sugar out of his diet already. I have tried Sleepy Time tea...which seems to work as long as I can get him to lay down right after he drinks it. Thanks for the red dye tip. I will try that. I know there is a preservative though. I have tried to do web searches but have come up empty-handed. They only bring up ADHD stuff. He does not have ADD, he is very smart. He is just too hyper. I have been dealing with this since he learned to crawl...he will be 4yrs this month. I need to change something before he goes to pre-school so that he isn't labeled a problem child.

Answer: All preservatives can be a problem, but simple carbohydrates are the usual culprits. Avoid them (white flour, sugar--which you've done, all processed foods, white rice). Focus on whole grains (i.e. not the same thing as whole wheat--if you buy a loaf of whole wheat bread, chances are that it is a processed simple carb--instead focus on whole grain. Whole grain pasta, brown rice (or Uncle Ben's--the nutritious part of the rice, the "germ" is pushed into the grain, not taken out) and whole grain cereal; lots of green leafy vegetables, sweet potatoes instead of regular ones, no sodas or juice "drinks"--pure juice, please--apples, bananas, raisins and blueberries are one of the most wholesome foods available. You can usually find frozen, organic ones. My grandson, age 4, is on this diet and he is as calm as a cucumber. He never even went through a "no" stage when he was 2. Hope this helps!

Question: A large amount of concentrated sweets in a child's diet is most likely to lead to? a. apathy b. dental caries c. hyperactivity d. growth inhibition

Answer: b and c

Question: What does one's diet have anything to do with one's skin turning orange? Martha, the mother of a 13-month old infant, brings her child to the clinic becase his skin has turned orage. Why does the pediatrician inquire about the child's diet?

Answer: Because the child eats too much carotene. You are feeding that baby carrots, squash and sweet potatoes in abundance. The baby probably likes those vegetables best. All you have to do is put her on some green beans and vary her diet and it will go away.

Question: Has a change in diet helped your child's eczema? My three year old son has had eczema for as long as I can remember. Before it used to get mildly bad in the winter and pretty much go away in the summer. This year it's just been getting worse. Just these last couple of days the poor thing is covered in it. We already use special soaps and everything we're supposed to on him. So now I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with a change in their child's diet. Another big problem we're having is that one of his nipples keeps getting it really bad and then turning into impetigo. This has beyond extremely painful for him and it's just so hard seeing him go through this when we are doing what we were told to do. I've been trying to think if he's had anything out of the ordinary in his diet these last few days since it's been flared up so badly but I can't think of anything. Any parents have advice on this when it comes to diet? Neither my pediatrician or dermatologist have really had all that much to say about it. hey jolie- you are an idiot. I'm not asking for spam to learn about how to put my kid on a diet to lose weight. Get a life and actually pay for some decent ads instead of messing things up here!!! I should probably add that we do have different steroid creams as well as the newer stuff like elidel and protopic. Up until this point we've been able to keep it under control using these and aquaphor (the thick clearish stuff). I was told about the wet wraps briefly by the dermatologist. I honestly cannot imagine my son allowing us to do this to him though with him being only 3. He's also taking something called hydroxizine right now that's supposed to help stop the itching. We've only used it twice and I hope to not have to use it much more.

Answer: NO! changing diets wont help childhood eczema. I have had eczema since i was very young and later when i went to medical school i learnt that diet changes don't help young children's eczema. If his case gets bad the doctor should subscribe you some steroid cream but don't use this stuff all the time, its very strong and can thin your skin. I have a few home remedies for eczema that may help you now before you can get to a doctor- 1. The wet wrap treatment, wrap a cold wet towel round the affected area and leave it over night (this reduces swelling and stops itching) 2. Moisturizing, Sanex is EXCELLENT for eczema it makes the skin lovely and moist. Understanding what eczema is will help you with your son. Please feel free to contact me if you have any worries/problems.