Attention deficits and hyperfunction (ADHD) is the most widespread violation of behavior in childhood.
This damage is between 8% and 10% of school-age children and adolescents. Usually diagnosed in childhood is still a lot of damage ADHD adolescents. The problem - carelessness, impulsiveness and hyperfunction - is interference, which means that they stop and seriously interfere with the life of a teenager.
Sometimes ADHD coexists other states. For example, it can coexist with learning disabilities who violate violations, and also material-induced disorders of mood. In addition, the teenagers of ADHD can also be a violation of the generation of oppositional or behavioral disorders. I receive accurate medical diagnosis and effective treatment of ADHD and coexisting problems is of great importance. ADHD damages all aspects of teenage life.
Abuse of drugs in general, and the abuse of stimulants such as cocaine abuse in particular, even at a very young age, can cause behavioral abnormalities that mimic, ADD / ADHD.
What are the symptoms of ADHD in Adolescents?
Symptoms of ADHD in adolescents are similar to ADHD in children. They include:
In adolescence, especially hormonal changes adolescence down, the symptoms, which can enhance ADHD.
What is ADHD affect the life of a teenager?
Because of problems with distractibility and poor concentration, many adolescents about ADHD have difficulties in school. The study may fall, especially if the teenager does not cure ADHD.
It is not uncommon for teenagers about ADHD, to forget the problem, do not put the books back, and also become bored easily with their daily work of the class. Adolescents can become inattentive or illegally careful - not waiting queue before, to shuffle the answers. They can stop the teachers and schoolmates, and slide problem. Adolescents on ADHD may be fussy and difficult time to sit in the classroom.
Often teenagers about ADHD so busy focusing on other things that they forgot about the problem in the field of view. This seems especially at home jobs and skills of mutations in relations with his contemporaries. This lack of attention to which they do often end modules efficacyy low on tests and be rejected by teams from the class action, and their contemporaries.
Does ADHD, to increase the risk of car accidents and problems with alcohol?
Driving is a special abrasions to adolescents about ADHD. Indeed, adolescents about ADHD in two four times there are more cases than have a car accident than adolescents without ADHD. Adolescents on ADHD may be impulsive, risk, immature in court, and looking shaky. All of these lines, to increase the likelihood of road accidents and serious injuries. However, studies show that teenage drivers about ADHD, which take desig? 7ennye drugs have greatly reduces the likelihood of accidents.
Adolescents on ADHD to be ? C in alcoholics than adolescents without ADHD more often. They also have the problem of drinking water frequently. In clinical studies, scientists have confirmed that adolescents about ADHD were twice more likely to abuse alcohol during the past 6 months. They also found that adolescents about ADHD may abuse drugs, and three times more than the cases for abuse of drugs other than marijuana.
Getting the appropriate treatment of ADHD in adolescents may reduce the risk of abuse after alcohol and drugs.
What teens are recommended for the treatment of ADHD?
There are many opinions as far as concerns treatment of ADHD in adolescence. Some experts believe that behavioral therapy can work only for adolescents. However, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 80% of what is necessary drugs for ADHD, because children - are still necessary drugs in adolescence.
Typically, a combination of medicinal preparations and better occupational therapy in the treatment of adolescents about ADHD. American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, everything that I recommend behavioral interventions in order to enrich the behavior problems that are part of ADHD.
Stimulant drugs such as Ritalin, Adderol, and Concerta are usually prescribed to treat adolescents about ADHD. These drugs may actually increase the insomnia and work better to help young people over the school. Stimulant medications work sluggishly rising levels of brain chemical dopamine. The latest addition to this includes a list of drugs Vyvanse.
Dopamine is the neurotransmitter. This is an important chemical that carries signals between nerves in the brain. Dopamine is linked to many functions, including movement, relax, mood, attention and learning. Probes suggest that drugs for ADHD stimulants increase dopamine, increase dopamine weak signals in the brain.
The study also showed that drugs such as nicotine and cocaine, to temporarily increase the activity of brain dopamine. Thus it may explain why people of ADHD can be raised by the risk of abuse of drugs.
Nestimulyatora Medications such as Strattera is also used for the treatment of adolescents about ADHD. Strattera inhibitor reverse attack norepinephrine. It works the increase in brain noradrenaline material under the name. We Nestimulyatora drugs for ADHD, there are no side effects of stimulants. For example, they do not increase the violatio
n, irritability, insomnia and as stimulant drugs may.
There is no treatment of ADHD. Sverhlechenie drugs may be counterproductive and could lead to scattering effects, such as thoughts of suicide, nevynoslivyh vicissitudes of mood, and abused drugs.
What parents of ADHD teens can help?
ADHD damages all aspects of adolescent life - from relationships with family and contemporaries, inducement and labor productivity, the general samodoverii. Thus, the first goal of the parents it should be open to talk to teens and to support and take possession of all times. Parents can do the following to help adolescents with ADHD symptoms of their self:
Provide accurate, consistent expectations, guidance and abroad.
Service daily schedule and stick to divert to a minimum.
Find activities where teens can check personal success (mutations, addictings, music lessons, for example).
Education in itself the advantages of a teenager's, confirming the positive behavior.
Equipment for effective discipline system and respond to attac on the suspension or loss of privileges.
Help Adolescents with planning and organization.
Save awakenings mealtime and before relax will be structured to an ordinary family with the same.
Setting up a reminder at home to help adolescents according to schedule, and remember that the projects shoulde.
Working with teachers, teenagers, who are convinced the teenager to the problems in school.
Stay quiet in the education of adolescents.
Parents can also help adolescents about ADHD, guaranteed, the teenager gets a lot to do nothing. Set precise rules for television, computers, mobile phones, Ipods, and video games. Be sure that they are disconnected and before relax.
In addition, parents should set clear targets for border and adolescents about ADHD. Reward positive behavior and reverse back child support, which shows part of opposition behavior.
