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.
Some experts argue that the number of children with ADHD is underestimated and that at least 1 in 20 children are suffering from it. Other experts say that the problem is exaggerated and many children diagnosed with ADHD do not actually have it !
You cannot easily diagnose ADHD and sometimes the diagnosis is interpreting a questionnaire and that is hardly objective. One way of making the distinction is that a child may only misbehave in certain situations or settings. The genuine ADHD child will have problems in all situations. It is a medical condition though and is present since birth.
Symptoms of ADHD are different from child to child. However certain behaviour patterns emerge. One main pattern concerns hyperactivity, the other impulsiveness. The child is constantly restless and cannot concentrate on any one task for more thn two seconds. The inability to calculate risks goes hand in hand with impulsive behaviour. The child will have difficulty in following instructions and will be distracted very easily. He or she will not be very good at taking turn in playing with peers.
Parents seem to be having more problems in controlling their children, There is a social reason for this in that many single parents have to work and bringing up children alone is a demanding task. Children themselves do not go out and play but are addicted to TV and playstations resulting also in increased consumption of snack foods which contain colourings and additives. recently there has been much debate about the role of these additives in kids’ food and how it may cause hyperactivity.
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.
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