White Noise Was Re: Not Sleeping, Melatonin NBG, Adrenals? /Anita, Anyone?

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With regards to white noise, I saw a discussion by the neuroscience

guy who developed speech program Fast ForWord (Merzenich), and he said

that white sound/noise lights up the whole auditory cortex and seems

to stop the plastic period of cortical development (in rats, I think),

with all sorts of resultant problems for speech/attention etc.

I just looked up a blurb about it:

http://bfc.positscience.com/resources/reading/the-brain-that-changes-itself-norm\

an-doidge-13.php

Anyway, our son is an early riser and we wanted to see if maybe the

stimulation to the auditory cortex in the am (when he was approaching

restedness) was helping to wake him up, and we found that if we turned

off the white noise machine after he went to bed (he needs it to fall

asleep) he slept later in the mornings. I told a friend and she had

the same results with her NT twins.

I know this won't apply to everyone, but it's an interesting

unorthodox position on white noise with some research being done as well.

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> > Child can go 48 hours with NO sleep at all. Sometimes he will go one

> > night sleep, next night none

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> I'm very sorry to hear that things are still this way. For dosing

> AC, some kids need quite a large amount. My ds, who weighed only 40

> pounds at the time, used 750 mgs a day for quite a long time, along

> with really high amounts of C and lots of B, esp B2. I've also been

> reading since and have realized the importance of adding E. We also

> use lots of mag and a small amount of chromium each day. Both my

> kids responded very quickly to adrenal support. Doing the same for

> DH now, who I realize has completely shot adrenals, and the results

> are very slow in coming. It can take some time to repair the damage.

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> White noise is a continuous background noise. Kind of like the noise

> you would get while riding in a car at night or from a fan. Lots of

> poeple sleep better with white noise (I am one of them). When my

> kids were babies and wouldn't sleep I would put them in the laundry

> room with the drier on and they'd be asleep in just a couple

> minutes. You can actually buy white noise machines for sleep. I

> don't know much about those but am looking into them. Older ds is

> often woken up by younger ASD son during the night (the bedrooms are

> side by side) and I think a white noise machine would help the

> situation for older DS.

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> There has been a study I think showing that white noise during the

> day actually helps people with ADD/ADHD concentrate.

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