ADHD or is it a food allergy?

My daughter is normally a very easily to get along with person. However, there were times and still are that she would just seem to be running by an energizer battery. She would sleep just a few hours and then off she'd go in a completely non stop, high energy mode for a day or two at a time.

We started to believe that she was suffering from ADHD, so we began talking to a physician about the problems we were having. He suggested that it may not be ADHD, but an allergic reaction to red-40 food coloring. We began cutting this out of her diet slowly. Red #40 is in almost all things so this is a very difficult thing to completely omit from a diet. After a few weeks of dramatically reducing her intake of this substance, she began to calm down. It seemed like magic.

If you think your child is ADHD, try watching their intake of Red #40 listed in the ingredients label on products, it just might make the difference between sedating medications and a normal life for them.