Hyperactive children: How to recognize

Let's start by defining what is hyperactivity or what is more accurate of what we mean when a child is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. So that we understand, this means that a child is very restless and who lacks the attention of a very striking.

Hyperactivity in children is considered normal when it occurs in an infant stage of life about two or three years. Whether a child is restless has nothing to do with the symptoms that today we will address this information. The lack of attention and anxiety in children are constant symptoms, usually parents first discuss the primary care physician, often alerted by teachers and educators.

This disorder has received many names in the past, damage or minimal brain dysfunction, hyperkinesis, hyperactivity and attention deficit .... But in reality encompasses all significant alterations of the attention, very often, there is an extreme activity in children ...

The percentage of children with this problem is estimated between 3 and 5% among children of school age, about six times more common in males.


ASSOCIATED DISORDERS

In addition, approximately 40% of children with this disorder have difficulty in learning, what motivates them, if not treated properly, the dropout in adolescence. And almost 50% of these children have a psychiatric disorder associated, especially problems of anxiety, fears and rages and depression and low self-esteem, 20% of cases, disruption of opposition by 25% and all kinds of disorders behavior. Low self-esteem, is present in at least 25%. Also have increased risk for antisocial behavior in adolescence, especially in families at risk (drug abuse, alcoholism, violence).

Although the symptoms improved markedly with age, symptoms can persist into adulthood, up to 40 to 60% of cases.

WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THIS DISORDER?

There are biological and genetic factors. Among non-genetic complications we can speak of prenatal, perinatal and postnatal.

It is known that the disorder predisposes to maternal alcohol consumption and drug use, including snuff ... also influenced by low birth weight, anoxia, brain injury, etc ... Environmental factors may contribute to its development but would not talk in this case of pure etiology. Parental psychopathology, low economic marginalization, family stress, in short, an unstable environment may aggravate the condition.

Moreover from the genetic point of view, all studies that affect the existence of the disorder in siblings is 17 to 41%. As the percentage of twins common disorder is up to 80%. If the parent has suffered from the syndrome children have a 44% risk of inheriting it.

There seems to be a dysfunction of the frontal lobe and partly from the neurochemical point of view there is a deficiency in the production of important brain neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are chemicals produced by neurons, ie nerve cells. To produce good communication between neurons and everything works normally there must be adequate amounts of certain neurotransmitters which in this case are dopamine and norepinephrine. In children with ADHD there is an irregular production in these two neurotransmitters and, therefore, the medications are given and discussed below, aims to regulate production of these substances ...

With current scientific progress is possible to visualize brain function as we see in this image made from PET (positron emission tomography), which are two brains.

One is a child without the disorder and the other is a child suffering from ADHD. The red, orange and white child's brain without the disorder indicates that there is a lot more activity before a task that requires continued attention ... Failure therefore the activity that is necessary to focus the attention.

For this core, and given the importance of this disorder, we know perfectly distinguish a restless child, a child with attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity, to address as soon as possible treatment.

WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS? HOW TO RECOGNIZE?

How do we know if our son is simply nervous or have an attention deficit disorder? Is there a cure?

We begin by giving a name that is used today. It is called the disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, although there are types of attention disorders without evidencing an excess of activity.

Before listing the symptoms, as has been described by the American Society of psychiatry, to consider the disorder as such, we will discuss how these children to their parents: in principle and as a rule, are children whose mothers always seem to be like that movie "on the verge of a nervous breakdown." They are children from birth are giving the can not sleep well or cry, or are espabiladísimos and then rose from the cot ... look very smart because they tend to talk a lot and confidently, and apparently its development has been normal .... It is simply intolerable that a child can not lead anywhere, everyone runs, unsettles the family and not still a minute.

When you start the school years start failures. Teachers realize that not paying the slightest attention to the point that sometimes are sent to the audiologist for a hearing test because it appears to be "deaf."

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