The etiology and treatment of ADHD children

The cause of ADHD children in general are the following:
1, the insufficient number of brain neurotransmitters. Such as norepinephrine, dopamine and other neurotransmitters in the brain concentrations of reduced and weakened the central nervous system suppression activities to increase the child moves. Therefore, the ADHD children must be given to drug treatment. Non-breastfed children, parents should pay attention to this reason in particular.
2, organic brain damage. Mother, suffering from high blood pressure during pregnancy, thyroid hypertrophy, nephritis, anemia, low heat, threatened abortion, cold, etc.; childbirth abnormalities; children 1-2 years after birth, central nervous system infection or trauma. This children's susceptibility to ADHD.
3, genetic factors. Part of the view that the physical birth defects and organ abnormalities, chromosomal abnormalities, genetic factors such as parental mental illness will be affected to varying degrees the child's brain function, resulting in the congenital physical defects, leading to hyperactivity.
4, other factors. Inappropriate teaching methods and early intellectual development of excessive pressure on the environment far more than a child's psychological capacity, leading to a child's psychological development lags behind, lower self-control. In addition, excessive intake of artificial food colors, excessive lead content of food does not necessarily lead to lead poisoning, but may lead to ADHD.
ADHD treatment for children:
1, drug treatment. Drug therapy should be cautious, medication type, dosage and time should be the guidance of experts, close observation.
2, diet therapy. There is no sufficient evidence to sure what food and the occurrence of ADHD, but in the child's food should be avoided by adding artificial colors flavorings, preservatives and salicylic acid esters.
3, psychological treatment. This is to correct deviations from normal behavior for children to cultivate his good behavior, enhance learning capacity and social adaptability, the main method. In the training process, parents have the right attitude, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is morbid and should not be discrimination and abuse, so as not to increase the psychological trauma. You can also take the following methods:
Distributed learning: The child's learning time to split up to every 10 minutes and let him rest. Learning environment, should not be placed distracting things.
The timely evaluation method: When the child showed quiet to do homework, less petty when the time to give praise. On the contrary, it is necessary and timely criticism.
Procedural training method: Using the guiding language training, control and guide their children's behavior. If I would let him observe the adult himself homework, and then themselves, in the homework, the side of the write side of himself: I want to do their homework, and we should work hard, first question is what ... ...
Also, teach their children to a regular lifestyle. Experience has shown that these types of treatments can reduce the child's hyperactive behavior, in the long-standing basis, generally speaking, children's hyperactivity can be effectively controlled and corrected, so that normal development of psychology.

How to help children with ADHD

ADHD is a concentrated attention difficulties, hyperactivity and impulsive behavior as the main symptoms of mental illness syndrome. Age at onset of the disease more than 2 to 18 years old, more boys than girls.
With the performance of ADHD children with age, the environment and in people's attitudes around varies, generally expressed as:
1, the activities of over-the majority of patients with ADHD from childhood hyperactivity was excited, can not sit-ins. To enter the school, due to various restrictions, ADHD symptoms were more obvious, can not be quiet in the classroom lectures, they turned a rocking chair, walking around in his seat, shouting, or speech, teasing others, the impact of classroom discipline. Run around after school, like over things, frequently interrupted the adults talk and interference with the activities of adults, do not cherish books and toys.
2, the attention focused on the difficulties children with ADHD it is difficult to focus on certain things, especially in the classroom can not concentrate on listening, paying attention to lax, susceptible to environmental interference and distraction, look around in the classroom, staring absent-minded or a trance . Assignments for teachers not remember, when the careless homework, doing fun, free alterations, drag-and-drop operation, it is difficult to be completed on time.
3, headstrong impulsive, emotionally unstable as a result of poor self-control, because children are often a little too small on the emotional response generated easily angered or emotional impulse, bad temper, therefore, often stimulated by a small risk of action and destruction, often quarrel or fight with fellow students, or for no reason in the classroom, such as call and ask.
Performance of the above children, parents should note that the opinion of experts to diagnose and treatment. Have children with ADHD, parents can take a number of ways to help children:
Drug treatment only when a more serious impact on ADHD children's learning, interfere with the order of the family and the school only when the need for drug treatment. Medication must be prescribed. Commonly used drugs amphetamine, methylphenidate and pemoline.
2 by changing the environment for the treatment of parents, teachers and the community to improve the patient's attitude towards the environment, to achieve therapeutic effect. This includes the following:
(1) the nature of specific diseases, the right to be treated. Parents should be aware that ADHD is a disease, should seek to understand the causes of, and actively seek treatment, rather than gross, discrimination, indifference, abuse, punishment and other measures, this disease will not only increase and will increase the children's low self-esteem, anxiety, withdrawal or psychological resistance.
(2) the gradual correction of behavior and hyperactivity. Should be to gradually reduce the child's behavior and hyperactivity, and not to set goals high, immediately ask them to become good boy quiet. Excessive demands can only lead to tension between.
(3) to allow children to participate in a variety of sports, social activities, so that they can have a chance to vent excess energy.
(4) to encourage the quiet child behavior, using verbal praise, encouraging the progressive training methods, such as to strengthen them develop to sit-ins, to focus the attention of the habit of learning and work.
(5) to cultivate children to form good habits. Should allow them to develop a time schedule from an early age, personal habits to ensure adequate sleep time, and the life of regular training as one of their choice to form the good habit of using, for example, do not eat, such as watching television. Do not give way to some interest in children, for example, so that they can not indefinitely long period of time such as watching television or movies.
(6) the elimination of the family led to the adverse attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or mental stress factors to stimulate and coordinate family relationships, to ease the family atmosphere, family factors to prevent the children feel uneasy, nervous anxiety and excitement.
(7) the rules simple and clear. Children of such elements required is to prevent injury to their own reckless acts or crimes against other people, therefore, the rules set out to achieve this goal line, not be appropriate to enact the rules too much.
(8) appropriate treatment. Parents can not discrimination, abuse or beat them, nor can the "disease" as an excuse for too much and made them even more self-willed and aggressive; it is necessary to be patient education, but also demanding. Parents and school teachers should take the initiative in maintaining regular contact, mutual feedback, and jointly promote the improvement of children.
3 psychological treatment of parents would like to invite experts on child psychotherapy and behavior therapy.

ADHD children in the 5 major incentive

Many parents of ADHD children are hyperactive child; a lot of children with mothers in the fetal period to reflect good move, a good cry after birth, sleep difficulties, eating well, it is difficult to take care of.

Adverse social environment, the breakdown of families, parents bad character, and so easy to stimulate the spirit of the accident led to concentration of children, hyperactivity. Caused by many reasons for ADHD, the current jury is still out, five can be summarized as follows:
1, mental impairment or delay in maturity.
More childish behavior of such children, clumsy movements, poor coordination. Mother during pregnancy or perinatal complications more time.
2, the genetic quality factors.
Many parents of ADHD children are hyperactive child; a lot of children with mothers in the fetal period to reflect good move, a good cry after birth, sleep difficulties, eating well, it is difficult to take care of.
3, biochemical and metabolic factors.
By the large number of studies confirm that ADHD children in central monoamine receptors (a neural medium, since the role of information transmission of the brain is the spirit of the activities of the chemical substance is closely related to) update slower; study also found that vitamin deficiency, or certain foods additives or pigments due to metabolic disorder and hyperactivity behavior of children.
4, toxic metal elements.
Lead poisoning is a more popular theory, but it is not the case with a hyperactivity of the children, so this factor has yet to be studied further.
5, social, family and psychological factors.
Adverse social environment, the breakdown of families, parents bad character, and so easy to stimulate the spirit of the accident led to concentration of children, hyperactivity.