If you've been wanting to try a summer vacation without ADHD meds, you're not alone. Hundreds of thousands of parents, concerned about the short and long term side effects of ADHD drugs have done research online about how to take their kids off drugs during a time when they can monitor their kids and not have to worry about how this could temporarily affect their child's behavior and performance at school. Summer vacation provides a long enough window in which to do this, but you need to know what you're doing.

A summer vacation without ADHD meds provides the perfect opportunity to try a natural treatment. Let's face it. The pharmaceutical companies have spent billions of dollars in advertising dollars over the best two decades to convince us that drugs are the best treatment for ADHD. But are they really? With side effects like loss of appetite, sleeplessness, stomach and heart problems and even psychosis, there has got to be a nagging feeling at the back of your mind that maybe drugs are not the best option for your child. Add to this the long term side effects and the knowledge that drugs do not cure what causes ADHD, they only suppress the symptoms.

But there is hope. A growing number of parents are finding that homeopathic remedies are very effective. Before you roll your eyes, remember that drug companies have spent a lot of money to make you think that natural treatments are hocus pocus, but what they don't want you to know is that these remedies have been proven effective in clinical trials. In addition to suppressing symptoms, homeopathic remedies actually heal the brain at the cellular level when given daily over time. This means that eventually proper brain function will be restored and your child won't have to take any meds, natural or not. Given this, a homeopathic remedy is the perfect treatment for a summer vacation without adhd meds.

In order to make this summer trial as effective as possible, make sure to do your research and find a remedy that has been FDA-approved, has proven ingredients and was manufactured under the supervision of a pharmacist. Since homeopathic remedies do not interact negatively with drugs, you can wean your child off ADHD drugs while giving him the homeopathic remedy in such a way that the drugs wears off as the remedy starts to work, suppressing side effects like hyperactivity, outbursts, inability to concentrate, etc. As you continue to give your child the remedy and see for yourself that it is just as effective at suppressing symptoms, you will continue its use with confidence while the remedy works to restore proper brain function.

Here's to you and your child and your summer vacation without ADHD meds.