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New Liquid Medication available for ADHD Treatment

December 13, 2012   admin

New Liquid Medication available for ADHD Treatment
Many parents have asked countless times if their child’s ADHD medications came in liquid or chewable form. Usually, they asked because their kids had a problem swallowing the pills or capsules because they were either too big or tasted terrible.
Now, the long awaited solution to one of the few problems of stimulant-type ADHD drug dosing-especially in younger children with ADHD is finally here…
Yesterday, Pfizer pharmaceutical announced it was releasing an extended-release methylphenidate in oral suspension for treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. “Quillivant XR”, this first-ever liquid alternative to ADHD pills will be available in January 2013.
Apparently, Quillivant has the very same effects and side-effects as pill or capsule form methylphenidate and a child who is currently being treated for ADHD… Read the rest using this drug would probably experience no changes with regard to changing from the pill to liquid formulation.
I think the biggest concerns a parent and physician should have about using any liquid-suspension drug are:

Since the drug comes in powder form and must be mixed with sterile water at the pharmacy, it is essential that it be mixed properly to avoid over-dosage or under-dosing.
Whoever measures the medication

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Foods that cause ADHD Behavior

December 13, 2012   admin

Foods that cause ADHD Behavior
A child’s diet often determines whether or not they show signs and symptoms of ADHD.
Many parents have noticed their child’s behavior to be more impulsive or more hyperactive after eating certain foods. This increase in ADHD behavior is particularly more common during times of the year when children and teens tend to eat or drink more foods that contain sugar, dyes, caffeine, and preservatives.
Christmas is one such time of the year, as it’s not uncommon for children to be bombarded by offers of candy, cookies, cakes, sweetened flavored drinks and other high calorie foods. It just seems we all tend to err on the side of over-eating for the holidays. This habit probably comes from the common misbelief that in order to have a great Christmas or holiday season and be happy-during a time of the year we want everyone to be happy-that we must be well-fed, over-stuffed and jolly like Santa.
Unfortunately, overfeeding children with ADHD or feeding them the wrong foods can make their ADHD behavior much worse… Read the rest. This is especially true of ADHD hyperactivity and impulsivity. To further confuse things, as many as 25% of children and teens who

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How to improve behavior in a child with ADHD

August 29, 2012   admin

Changing an ADHD Child’s Behavior
How to improve behavior in a child with ADHD
As kids return to school to start the new academic year, more and more parents are asking for ways to change their ADHD child’s behavior. This usually means their ADHD child has poor behavior, has bad habits, or displays misbehavior and they want help in fixing it-the behavior.
Common complaints about the behavior of a child with ADHD include:

He doesn’t listen to me (pay attention to what I am saying or ignores me)
She interrupts when I’m speaking (has to get the last word in)
He won’t sit still in class (fidgets all the time-disrupts the class)
She refuses to do her homework (I can’t get her to do her homework)
He talks back to me all the time (has a smart mouth-is mouthy)
She argues over everything or acts like she knows everything.

As I’m sure you have noticed, all of these ADHD symptoms are really just typical behaviors or habits normally seen in ADHD kids and teens. They include the core symptoms used to make the diagnosis of ADHD-inattentiveness, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
Daniel was the perfect example of an ADHD child’s behavior problem… Read the rest

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Diagnosing Sleep Apnea in Young Children Suspected of ADHD

August 16, 2012   admin

Diagnosing Sleep Apnea in Young Children Suspected of ADHD
More and more children ages 3 to 17 in the United States, as well as other countries, are being diagnosed with ADHD each year. US Statistics show a huge increase in kids under age 7 years being diagnosed and treated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder particularly in the past three years.
Just in the U.S. alone, the number of kids ages 3 to 17 diagnosed with ADHD has skyrocketed to in excess of 10,000,000 ( Yes…that’s ten million) and that number is expected to increase by 15 to 20 percent over the next year.   Likewise, during this same period, as many as 4 million or 40 percent of those children ages 3 to 17 years, will have been misdiagnosed with ADHD.
Obviously, it’s very important that we diagnose ADHD and other behavior problems carefully and accurately in order to avoid wrongfully labeling a child with ADHD when indeed he or she is not ADHD.
Currently, there are in excess of 95 medical, social, and environmental things that can cause ADHD-like behavior, confusing the diagnosis; causing misdiagnosis of ADHD… Read the rest. One of the most common seen in kids under age

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Sleep Apnea Treatment may Prevent ADHD Behavior

August 08, 2012   admin

Sleep Apnea Treatment may Prevent ADHD Behavior
Most ADHD experts agree obstructive sleep apnea can cause the core symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity in children; inattentiveness, impulsivity and hyperactivity. It stands to reason the earlier we suspect, detect and treat obstructive sleep disorders, the more likely we can prevent the symptoms of ADHD in the first place and avoid the misdiagnosis of ADHD.
Approximately 2.5 to 4 million children ages 3 to 17 years are misdiagnosed with ADHD in the U.S. each year. Of these, several hundred thousand will suffer the terrible stigma and discrimination of being labeled as ADHD and the side effects of unneeded medications-sometimes for years-all because their sleep-time breathing disorder went undetected and untreated.
Much research is now being reported about the association of disorder breathing such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and cognitive-learning problems and ADHD-like behavior disorders in children as young as age 3 years. A recent study presented at the Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies showed nerve based abnormalities that affected cognition in brains of children with OSA were reversible with treatment of the OSA.
Studies had already shown a clear association between deficits in attention, executive brain function… Read the rest

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Successful Treatment of ADHD Kids may require Treating Parents

July 19, 2012   admin

Successful Treatment of ADHD Kids may require Treating Parents
Children with ADHD may not respond to therapy unless their ADHD parents are treated at the same time.
It’s true…no matter how many drugs a child with ADHD takes, no matter how many counseling sessions he or she attends, no matter how many promises or threats a parent makes; sometimes the only way ADHD kids will respond to treatment is to treat their parent for ADHD.
ADHD experts estimate 50% to 70% of all ADHD teenagers will still have one or more elements of their ADHD persisting into adulthood. Likewise, we’ve found 70% of all children and teenagers with ADHD will have one or both parents who are ADHD or had the core symptoms of ADHD during childhood.
It is indeed very difficult to effectively diagnose and treat ADHD in a child when his or her mother or father have undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, or untreated ADHD. Most adults who fall into one of these three groups deny the existence of their ADHD, think they have “out-grown” their ADHD, or have serious subconscious doubts about whether ADHD is real or not.
Denial of ADHD symptoms and doubts about whether ADHD is real or … Read the rest

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How to Diagnose and Treat Sleep Problems that cause ADHD Behavior

June 12, 2012   admin

How to Diagnose and Treat Sleep Problems that cause ADHD Behavior
Problems sleeping have caused many kids and adults to be wrongfully labeled because of misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Recently, many news and research articles have popped up confirming what behavior specialists have “known” for years; children and adults who have problems sleeping are more likely to have behavior problems such as ADHD.
It just seems it took a long time for everyone else to come to grips with the association between a “good night’s sleep” and normal or appropriate behavior. I considered the quality and quantity of sleep to be such a big part of a child’s or adult’s ability to function the next day; I dedicated an entire chapter to the topic in Mistaken for ADHD.
In my last article; Problems sleeping cause ADHD Behavior in Children and Adults, we discussed how any “thing”; medical or otherwise, that caused a child or adult to have problems sleeping could also cause signs and symptoms of ADHD.
As you’re sure to remember, ten year-old Leslie was a perfect example of how a child could be misdiagnosed with ADHD… Read the rest-when in fact suffering from disordered sleep.
Disorders of

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