Attention Deficit Disorders 200,000 Canadian children take Ritalin, may now switch to Strattera
NEW DRUG TO CONTROL ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER by Donna Young.
See comments at end of news stories about 200,000 Canadian children or more, needing drugs.
It is believed they were damaged by needless child birth trends, hasty umbilical cord clamping and drugging the mothers at birth, harmful birth positions, on the back, and early vaccinations when the child is anemic.
Such common factors are seldom investigated by doctors treating childhood disorders, they look, rather
to bad genes, drugs or
alcohol the parents took, smoking habits, but never is there tracing to what happened during birth,
indicating an uneducated
mother to protect her child or an adequately trained medical person(s).
Last Updated Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:26:06 ug
VANCOUVER - There's a new drug available for the treatment of ADHD, or attention deficit hyper activity disorder. Strattera is a non-stimulant that may revolutionize how the disorder is treated.
Children with ADHD are usually treated with Ritalin — a powerful stimulant that helps the brain control
behaviour. This enables a
child to concentrate on tasks they find difficult or boring, such as reading and writing.
INDEPTH: Ritalin on the Rise
More than 200,000 Canadian children take Ritalin, which has side effects.
Eleven-year-old Page Thorburn was taken off Ritalin after only two months. She had too much energy and had trouble sitting still.
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"It became very difficult for her to sleep and do her homework. Her appetite was affected,"
says Wendy Thorburn, Page's mother.
"We found…it worked very well at school (but) it was really difficult at home."
FROM Nov. 27, 2001: More low income children on path to Ritalin
Page started taking a new drug 10 months ago as part of a trial. It's called atomoxetine, sold
under the brand name Strattera.
Page says she likes it better — she doesn't experience nausea and has a better appetite.
Atomoxetine failed trials as an anti-depressant but has found new life as treatment for ADHD.
It will soon be sold in Canada.
"This medication is taken once a day but it provides improvement for the child, not just for a
few hours that it's taken but around
the clock," says Dr. Margaret Weiss, a child psychiatrist who has spent most of her career working
with ADHD patients.
FROM Oct. 15, 2001: Ritalin getting into the wrong hands
Weiss is conducting trials for Eli Lilly, the drug's maker.
"This medication is not a controlled substance," says Weiss. "It doesn't have street value. There are many parents who may have concerns about their children taking stimulants who are going to be willing to accept treatment with this medication."
A 2001 report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal discovered Ritalin abuse was high among
teens. Nearly 15 per cent
of teenagers who are prescribed Ritalin or other stimulants have given away at least some of their pills.
Strattera has only been tested in 4,000 patients. It hasn't been tested against Ritalin. The U.S. Food
and Drug Administration
approved it last November and it has been available in the U.S. since January.
http://cbc.ca/stories/2003/02/26/Consumers/ADHDdrug_030226
Written by CBC News
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Comments from Donna,
www.lotusbirth.com:
I say, the best treatment for sickness is prevention.
We are the third generation to be exploited as to baby birth procedures. At the present time there
are no reviews of children with
any disorder, whether that is eating, sleeping, autism, ADD, or other, are reviewed for their mother accepting
drugs during labor,
flat and semi-sitting positions, and if the medical person(s) imposed his/her will and did,
without cause, immediate cord
clamping. Without cause which are only two: cord broke or placenta previa. Both
would require justification, as the child would
need assistance, in most instances, of correction of deprived blood and oxygen.
The immediate cord clamping knowingly deprives the child of 20 to 50 percent total blood volume. There
is also interrupting of
the child's circulation system, drawing away blood from the brain, to go into the lungs. Four
to six ounces (180 ml) are deprived
the average child, at birth, by wrongful immediate and early cord clamping. That latter has been
attempted to be standardized at
30-seconds.
The placenta and blood are either discarded (assumed burned but many hospitals use it as cheap research
blood and no paper
work) or they are both sent to drug companies, cosmetic companies and/or stem cell blood banks. Compensation
may or may
not be obtained by the hospital for the collection of same, and private billings may be permissible
at each hospital, if the medical
persons are doing this.
No consent for early cord clamping is obtained from either parent, in most instances. The child,
in most cases, looks apparently
normal, but is anemic. Premature babies, because they have the most stem cell blood, more so then
full term babies, are most
vulnerable to being exploited for their blood.
Children in that weakened and anemic condition are vaccinated, often with preservatives and trace elements
like aluminum and
mercury. They become weaker still, and are pushed over the edge.
The drug companies, nor the doctors participating in questionable birth trends and care of the mother
and the child, are taking no
responsibility or accountability. Drug companies are not required to put on all ingredients and
trace elements on the vaccination
lot numbers to have the medical person giving those injections first inform and have consent or rejection
of their products.
The public is simply not educated of their rights. They do not have to accept policies of hospitals, that are run as a business, and the doctors operate as business persons too. The public, and the individuals are their business for exploitation. Be Alert.
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We need support, Internationally, to help Canada correct or investigate present training of all medical persons who will or intend to be at a mother's birth.
We need support for informed choices, of both parents, that our babies are not being harvested by methods of Active Management.
Search this www.lotusbirth.com web site for
: AAP policy, SOGC policy, ACOG policy; Placenta; Fetus to Neonate
Circulation; 30-second clamping; World Health Organization and Dupont ; Circumcision ; Dr. Sarah Buckley's
Declaration ;
Canadian Criminal Codes and when a baby is a person; and any other subject you may be interested in
child birth.
Search
Lotusbirth
(Reference from Protect Babies
http://www.123-baby-birth.com)
Search at Google this web site for the " No Policies " on equal
protection to babies at from the various government officials who appointed representatives to protect
the public on medical
policies and practices; also the "No policies" of the various medical associations, societies,
and colleges did not live up to no
form of discrimination to women or the child of any kind. It is believed they had a duty to have
a policy of equal protection and
security of person, regardless of: age, mental or physical disadvantages ; race, color, social
or marital status of the pregnant
lady ; or belief or faith of the family, or genetic type of blood sought for by medical researchers,
for stem cell matching, and use of
white cells, mature red cells, platelets, enzymes, hormones, and plasma.
contact:
Donna Young, Mother and Grandmother
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