January 14, 2010
Treating Attention Deficit Disorder - Not Just Adhd Meds !
Robert William Locke asked:
Not just ADHD meds! Treating attention deficit disorder will require a lot more effort on the part of parents. Is there such a thing as ‘bedtime’ in your family and if there is, do you actually impose it ? There are so many distractions now that very often, we parents do not even stick to our bedtimes, let alone our children. We now know that the children of President Obama go to bed at 8 .p.m. If we have children of the same age, maybe we should be following the Presidential example.
Parents often overlook the importance of sleep in treating attention deficit disorder. One expert from the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic at Hasbro Children’s hospital says that young teenagers need at least 9 to 9.25 hours sleep every night. Establishing a bedtime routine and sticking to it will help enormously. Many ADHD kids suffer from sleep disorders and a routine really helps. Exercise and sunlight during the day are a great way to start. Turning down lights in the house towards bedtime helps as does switching off all electronic media in the house an hour before bedtime. Then quiet activities, a sleep inducing drink (warm milk with honey) ,good old fashioned reading a book or reading the child a story will be a great help. A sleep disorder may be just that and if your child has no other ADHD symptoms, then you will just have to fix the sleep problem and not worry about attention deficit disorder treatment. The main symptoms of a sleep disorder are snoring, interruption of breathing (apnea), drowsiness during the day and difficulty in actually getting to sleep.
A new study from the University of Central Florida suggests that hyperactive children actually need to move around so that their short term memories can function better. The movement actually keeps them alert. ADHD kids when confronted with a small task like reordering letters began to squirm and started fidgeting while doing the tasks while the non ADHD children were sitting relatively quietly. The ADHD kids can still do the tasks but they may need extra help in breaking down the instructions and giving them checklists. The same technique can be used in helping them with homework and indeed with any small household or daily chores like getting ready for school and so on. This is just one of the many ways we can use in treating attention deficit disorder.
Not just ADHD meds is all very well but some form of medication is needed for attention deficit disorder treatment, even if you apply the techniques and routines I have mentioned above. In using ADHD psychostimulant medicines, many parents do not realise that kids’ brains go on developing right up to the age of 25 ! The drug companies refuse to inform us or simply do not know about the long term effects on the neural development of the psychostimulants, antidepressants and other drugs that they insist our children take. There are, of course, alternative therapies available for treating attention deficit disorder. A homeopathic ADHD remedy has no side effects and will certainly not be addictive. If you would like to know more before you decide, click on the link below.
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Not just ADHD meds! Treating attention deficit disorder will require a lot more effort on the part of parents. Is there such a thing as ‘bedtime’ in your family and if there is, do you actually impose it ? There are so many distractions now that very often, we parents do not even stick to our bedtimes, let alone our children. We now know that the children of President Obama go to bed at 8 .p.m. If we have children of the same age, maybe we should be following the Presidential example.
Parents often overlook the importance of sleep in treating attention deficit disorder. One expert from the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic at Hasbro Children’s hospital says that young teenagers need at least 9 to 9.25 hours sleep every night. Establishing a bedtime routine and sticking to it will help enormously. Many ADHD kids suffer from sleep disorders and a routine really helps. Exercise and sunlight during the day are a great way to start. Turning down lights in the house towards bedtime helps as does switching off all electronic media in the house an hour before bedtime. Then quiet activities, a sleep inducing drink (warm milk with honey) ,good old fashioned reading a book or reading the child a story will be a great help. A sleep disorder may be just that and if your child has no other ADHD symptoms, then you will just have to fix the sleep problem and not worry about attention deficit disorder treatment. The main symptoms of a sleep disorder are snoring, interruption of breathing (apnea), drowsiness during the day and difficulty in actually getting to sleep.
A new study from the University of Central Florida suggests that hyperactive children actually need to move around so that their short term memories can function better. The movement actually keeps them alert. ADHD kids when confronted with a small task like reordering letters began to squirm and started fidgeting while doing the tasks while the non ADHD children were sitting relatively quietly. The ADHD kids can still do the tasks but they may need extra help in breaking down the instructions and giving them checklists. The same technique can be used in helping them with homework and indeed with any small household or daily chores like getting ready for school and so on. This is just one of the many ways we can use in treating attention deficit disorder.
Not just ADHD meds is all very well but some form of medication is needed for attention deficit disorder treatment, even if you apply the techniques and routines I have mentioned above. In using ADHD psychostimulant medicines, many parents do not realise that kids’ brains go on developing right up to the age of 25 ! The drug companies refuse to inform us or simply do not know about the long term effects on the neural development of the psychostimulants, antidepressants and other drugs that they insist our children take. There are, of course, alternative therapies available for treating attention deficit disorder. A homeopathic ADHD remedy has no side effects and will certainly not be addictive. If you would like to know more before you decide, click on the link below.
Trane Heat Pumps
