If your child is hyperactive, you may be wondering what treatment is the best. You may also start to question why psychostimulants are always the first treatment option. But if your child has ADHD, can this type of drug really get him back on track, calm the hyperactivity and increase attention span and improve concentration?Let us have a look at attention span. It is a curious ADHD fact that hyperactive kids have great attention...more
Did you know that very often a hyperactive child is actually depressed? He or she may also be the target of bullying at school and will sometimes be quite lonely due to the total inability to socialize with her classmates. So, as well as all the other problems associated with how to treat hyperactive child such as restlessness, constant talking and squirming, depression and loneliness may also be a problem.The first thing we need to...more
Hyperactive meds are a controversial issue and have generated a lot of heated debate. In this article I want to outline three factors which can help you, as a parent, to decide whether these hyperactive medications are indeed the right solution for your child's ADHD or whether you should seek an alternative.Here is the first factor to help you decide. What exactly do these hyperactive meds do? They are psychostimulants and they are amphetamine type drugs which are supposed to stimulate the brain transmitters into action so that the chemical imbalance is adjusted correctly. For example, a hyperactive child, paradoxically, will become calmer and will be able to stay on task, if inattention is a problem.But stimulants are stimulants so heart and other organs are affected and that is why there are problems of cardiac arrest in children who may have heart problems. The question we have to ask ourselves at this point is whether this type of medication is useful or not. It will relieve symptoms but it will never get to the root of the problem.The second factor to help us decide is whether the side effects are going to outweigh the advantages. Of course all medicines will...more
Despite what the medical community will tell you, there are better and safer options to psychostimulants for treating ADHD. All you have to do is to go to the FDA website and look at what they are worried about. There are all sorts of side effects and health risks and the disadvantages of medicine for hyperactive children are there...more
Sometimes with severe ADHD, neither medication nor any therapeutic treatment seems to work. I know parents who have tried everything and then just stopped all treatment. They just gave up but life became unbearable for them. They had tried all the treatments for a period of three years. With or without treatment,the child with severe...more
'Does my child have ADHD' is a question worried parents often ask. When they observe some fairly abnormal behavior for a child, they ask themselves this question again and again. What is wrong? Normally the child may not be able to concentrate or focus at all. They may not even be able to answer a simple question about what they did at school. Reckless, daring and impulsive behavior like jumping off furniture is a favorite pastime it seems. Then there may be constant squirming and non stop chatter. There are some children who start biting and kicking their parents too so the whole scenario is pretty desolate.Does my child have ADHD may be a question that you just cannot answer alone. Worried parents can of course, if the child is attending school, ask the teacher of he or she is displaying any of the above behaviors in class or completely different ones. You could also find out what are her relationships with her peers and of she has friends or not. This will also help to pinpoint the problem but of course a proper assessment will have to be made by a doctor specializing in ADHD, a pediatrician or a child psychologist. You could also see a chiropractor or specialists...more
One of the major problems facing parent(s), caregiver(s), today with autistic children is loneliness and feeling alone. This has been my experience, as I see more and more families who have autistic children. They are requesting help and guidance...more
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