Guest guest Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 >My son is 8 and was also just diagnosed with ocd. A really great book is called " what to do when your child has ocd strategies and solutions " by Aureen Wagner. She has also written a great childrens book to go along with it called " up and down the worry hill " > Hello everyone, > > I just joined this past weekend when our 6 year old son was dx'ed with OCD. We always knew he had a thing for cleaning (he cleans the kitchen bathroom at least 3 times a week...I am talking scrubbing toliet, sink, tub, and wiping down the heater in there). I fell totally overwhelmed with it all. We are not trying meds at this time...we are going to try looking at another route. Our oldest son has Tourettes Syndrome and ADHD and threw trial and error we learned that Red #40 was his trigger...we took that out of his diet and in 36 hours he went from ticing every 1-2 mintues to every 5-6 minutes..then the time between got more and more apart. He is now 12 and still no meds and doing wonderfully. We have not totally put meds out...but if we can try it natural way...we will do it. > > For starters we are doing Omega 3 for a week then slowly taking different artificial additives out of his diet at a week at a time to see if we see a change in him. > > Anyone have any good books to reccommend for us to read? Anyone try the natural way before and have any input..heck...I am going at this blind any input would be helpful. > > Thank you > > Lona > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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