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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. Experts disagree and there are two camps. In one camp, we have those who say that the actual number of children diagnosed with ADHD is only a fraction of those really suffering from the problem and that the ratio is 1 in every 20 children. In the second camp, we have those experts who say that many children are misdiagnosed and that the problem is exaggerated. 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. 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. Doctors have come in for criticism also.There are many cases of a misdiagnosis where the child does NOT have ADHD. The pharmaceutical companies are laughing all the way to the bank as they watch their sales of ADHD medications rocket! Side effects of some of these drugs are worrying. A popular drug, Adderall, was recently taken off the market in Canada because there was evidence of heart problems in children with a predisposed heart condition. Research recently published does stress that therapy rather than drugs is much more effective in the long term. 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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