ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know

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Doc Smitty gives the facts on caring for kids with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Return to Book Page. A new chapter on advocacy, updates on special education services and laws, and the role of the medical home are also included. What are today's best treatment options? The reference also addresses what schools can do to support children with the condition and offers ADHD management strategies that balance the roles of behavior therapy, medications, and parenting techniques. Paperback , pages.

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I found the information to be factual and organized in a clear and easy to read manner. I appreciated the inclusion of both medication options and complementary medicine. He had to move around the school for every lesson, have lots of different teachers and keep his stuff in a locker. For a kid with ADHD that's too disruptive. Oli was put on Ritalin and other medication.

It made some difference but it wasnt a magic bullet. He was excluded from his next school, but still managed to get nine GCSEs. Getting a job helped stabillise him, but he still got into trouble with gambling and crashed his car - all part of his impulsive nature.

That made him think about his life and he decide study alone for his A-levels. He did so well he now studies maths at Cambridge University, where he is in his second year. Our story does show ADHD doesn't mean a life of failure and chaos. Oli has turned a corner.

Meanwhile, I began to suspect I may be affected. It explained years of disorganisation and a feeling I didn't fit in. Kids with ADHD lack stop signs - they don't tend to know when their behaviour is dangerous or inappropriate. This improves naturally with age but may be delayed or absent in people with ADHD. Get daily news updates directly to your inbox Subscribe See our privacy notice More newsletters.

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Changes are often necessary around puberty as well. Finally, there are no withdrawal symptoms when a person comes off their stimulant ADHD medicines. By definition, this means that there is no withdrawal.

So, without compulsion and habit, tolerance or withdrawal, there is no single characteristic about these medicines that make them addictive. As for the question about children with ADHD going on to have more addictions later in life, it seems that this is more related to the ADHD than the medicine and adequate treatment may actually help prevent some of these later behaviors. I hear this complaint or concern with just about every consult that I see. Understandably, parents don't want their children to act differently or have a change in personality because they are on medication.

If I were to see personality changes in my patients, I would change their medicine or come up with other treatment strategies. However, this is a very uncommon complaint when families actually start medication. In my 6 years of practice, I have heard this complaint only twice and both of the parents were extremely worried about it prior to starting medicines, which makes me wonder if they weren't looking too hard for it in the first place.

It is my opinion, this was a bigger problem before with the short acting medicines like Ritalin.

ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know

Because they needed to be dosed more twice in the day, the children may have experienced the change in their blood level throughout the day which led to more drastic behavior changes. While there have been some studies showing a slight decrease in weight and height growth over the first year of starting a medicine, these differences disappear when you recheck the children at 2 and 3 years out from starting medicine. The most common side effects I see from the ADHD medication primarily stimulants are loss of appetite and difficulty going to sleep.

Loss of appetite-We usually see this problem just after starting medication and it certainly can improve over time. The child usually has the biggest problem with lunch time as that is the when the medicine is at its highest level in the blood stream.