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ADHD- Latest Facts For Parents

By: Robert William Locke..

Is your child just misbehaving or being unruly ? Child care therapists are beginning to question whether some ADHD cases have been misdiagnosed. Parents and some experts are afraid that the ADHD label is just an all too convenient tag for any problematical child.

In just ten years the prescriptions for the most widely used drug (Ritalin) for ADHD children in the UK has risen from 4,000 to 360,000! This represents an enormous cost to the the National Health Service to the tune of 28 million. But many parents are now questioning whether the term ADHD is a handy label for disobedient and badly behaved children.

There is some disagreement among experts who say that the actual number of children with ADHD is severely underestimated and that the percentage of children with ADHD could be as high as 1 in 20 children. Other experts argue that the problem is exaggerated and that many children are misdiagnosed and that they are simply badly behaved children !

The fact that diagnosis of ADHD is notoriously difficult and relies on a questionnaire has fueled even more the doubts or parents and child carers. Interpretation of the answers remains somewhat subjective. One main difference however is whether the child displays problematical behaviour in certain situations or settings or in all of them. If the latter, s/he may well have ADHD.

Most symptoms of ADHD are well documented although there will be differences from child to child. Usually they will fall into two groups, that of inattention and impulsiveness coupled with hyperactivity. He or she will have difficulty in concentrating, even for a very short period. There will be problems of impulsiveness coupled with inability to assess risks. When playing with peers, he or she will have problems with taking turns.

Why are parents finding it difficult to control their children ? One reason could be that the structure of families is rapidly changing and single parent families are on the increase. There are other social reasons too - children go out and play less. Children are glued to playstations and eat lots of snacks which have additives. These additives have recently come under very close scrutiny and some experts argue that snacks should have a health warning on them!

The medical profession has come in for some severe criticism as well. Many children are being mistakenly diagnosed as having ADHD when it is not true. Pharmaceutical companies are only too happy to see the incidence of this condition increase as sales of stimulants and non stimulant drugs rocket. There are questions about the side effects of these drugs which are worrying. Adderall, a popular drug was withdrawn in Canada because of a link with heart disease. Other research says that therapy is much more effective in the long term than drugs.

If you are having problems with your children and you may think they have ADHD, the link below will take to a doctor's site whose children were diagnosed with ADHD. he has develioped a drug free method which will help you solve the problem of badly behaved children, whether they have ADHD or not.

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