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Originally Posted by bluemoon  How very, very true - especially the Ritalin part which is my current hobby-horse. I can't believe that we're raising a generation of medicated kids, and worse that their parents seem to think that this is acceptable. |
Both our sons were diagnosed with asthma and given inhalers as toddlers. As Madmax is asthmatic (because he was premature and has lots of allergies) we almost believed it. However, I refused to dose them with medication and instead took them to the family smallholding to spend time with goats, horses, dogs, cats, and whatever other 'germs' were to be found. Somewhere there is a lovely photo of mk1 son sound asleep in a pile of the 'clean' straw while my mum was mucking out stables! It turned out that the constant bronchitis they were suffering from (diagnosed as asthma) was caused by the damp in our council flat. We found out when we moved - we were taking the wardrobes out of the main bedroom and found the wall covered with mold. Since we moved out of there, neither son has had a wheeze or chest infection - other than the common cold.