I have not heard anything about these supplements, but if they work, I am willing to try them.
The only "alternative" treatment that I have tried with my child has been neuro-feedback. for 12 weeks we would go to meetings where my son was hooked up to a machine and his brain waves controlled movements on the screen. The treatment was finalized, but I don't see any imporvements. The treatment is expensive and being an alternative is not covered by insurance. At the end of it all, the clinic where the neurofeedback was taking place ended up telling us that our son also has auditory processing issues, and that is why he didn't benefit from treatment as well as other children have.
I will look more into the Vitamin B6 treatment and see if that works.

Consider holding your son back one year so he will be better able to handle the work and environment. Also, sometimes people are different and periodically we need to recognize different is not abnormal. Note that as a society we are becoming far more ADD. People text, get on cell-phone, and do 2-4 things at once, things that 20 years ago would categorize someone as ADD.

From my personal experience, I have never, ever found any "alternative" treatment to work - most are only supported by anecdotal evidence, rarely any withstand any rigorous testing - double blind, with placebo with a tightly defined and monitored control group. Those that have, have proven to be no more effective than placebo or no treatment.

In our stressed out times, we've tried a number of them, only to feel more guilty because we were treating our kids like guinea pigs.

Why are you using short acting Ritalin? It tends to have the biggest rebound effect (as shown by studies and personal experience with three ADD/ADHD kids) and requires multiple doses a day. We do use it, but only as a boost after school so they can get their homework done without undue trials and tribulations.

Ritalin is methylphenidate, and Concerta, Focalin and Daytrana are all based on methylphenidate, but have different delivery mechanisms to deal with issues specific to each child - such as faster absorption, more dose in the morning versus evenly distributed, etc.
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Also, one issue to be careful of with Welbutrin (but you may know this already) is that Welbutrin can increase anxiety and agitation. So if you deal with excessive moodiness, it may make things worse. I have taken it in the past, and while it seemed to combined well with focalin, i was more irritable and eventually went off and tried other things.

Hi anonymous, thanks. I give my 6 yr old the short acting ritalin to get him through school. Before when he was on the vyvanse altho it worked, he never ate (and and he is very thin) and sometimes he just seemed uncomfortale in his own skin, (if that makes any sense) soon he just absolutely refused to take the yellow capsule. He knew. So now he does eat after school and for the most part I haven't seen an increase in agitation with the wellbutrin, I have tho seen a couple instances where he out of the blue cried for no reason. I looked at the side effects of wellbutrin and didn't see this as one, but have you heard of this before? Sometimes I am at a complete loss as to what to do for him, however, since school has begun I haven't had too many bad experiences. Thanks for your advice.