Treatment of ADHD 1:
It used to be thought that ADHD is a self-limited disease of children, which can disappear naturally with the increase of age. Scholars have found (1) that only some children with ADHD can heal themselves, and most children's symptoms can continue into adulthood. (2) There are significant differences in curative effect and prognosis between treatment and non-treatment, early treatment and late treatment. Therefore, the current consensus is that ADHD needs early comprehensive treatment.
Parents and teachers should unify the following points:
First, ADHD is pathological, so we can't discriminate, let alone beat and scold, so as not to aggravate the child's mental trauma.
Second, children with ADHD must be treated with drugs, but drugs cannot replace education. Drugs can provide good conditions for education, and we should correctly understand the functions and side effects of drugs.
Thirdly, to achieve good curative effect, four aspects (children, parents, teachers and doctors) must cooperate with each other.
medicine
At present, most experts believe that Ritalin is very effective in treating ADHD in children, which can concentrate and feed the symptoms of hyperactivity, thus achieving the purpose of improving behavior. With the improvement of behavior, children's academic performance will also improve, and with the stability of emotions, conflicts with classmates will also decrease. Therefore, the drug also indirectly promotes children's psychological development. But the only disadvantage of ritalin is that it can't eradicate the disease and can only be taken for a long time.
Ritalin per tablet 10mg, every morning 1 tablet, after meals. If the effect is not obvious after taking it for a period of time, the effective dose of the drug can be increased as appropriate. Parents should always contact the teacher, closely observe the reaction and explore its effective dose.
Such as anorexia, dizziness, insomnia and so on. Parents don't have to panic, but they can reduce the amount slightly. After 2-3 weeks, the child can adapt and the reaction disappears. In order to avoid drug resistance, you can stop taking drugs on sundays, holidays and when you are not studying, and you can also stop taking drugs in winter and summer vacations.
But if you need to study and do your homework during the holidays, you can take ritalin half an hour before studying. Ritalin can only last for 4-6 hours at a time. Therefore, only long-term medication can be effective. If you stop taking the medicine at will, the symptoms will reappear. According to the individual's different situation, you can take 1-5 years, but with the increase of age, the situation improves, and the dose can be gradually reduced until the drug is stopped.
Educational method
At the same time, parents should pay attention to education and understand ADHD. Don't blame, blame, discriminate, beat and scold children, educate patiently and pay close attention to counseling. When educating children with ADHD, we should pay attention to the following points:
1. requirements must be practical. First of all, parents should understand the characteristics of ADHD, and the requirements for ADHD children should not be as strict as those for normal children. As long as their hyperactivity can be controlled within a range that is not excessive, it is ok. You shouldn't be too demanding.
2. Guide too much energy. For such children with excessive activities, we should give them positive guidance and let their excessive energy be brought into play. Parents and teachers should organize them to participate in various sports activities, such as running, playing ball, climbing mountains and long jumping. If possible, they should be arranged to do some outdoor and indoor activities to release their excessive energy. But when arranging their activities, we should pay attention to safety and avoid danger.
3. Strengthen the cultivation of concentration. For such children, we should gradually cultivate their habit of sitting still and paying attention. You can start with reading books and listening to stories, and gradually extend the time of concentration. You can also arrange them in the first row of seats in the classroom, so that you can get the supervision and guidance of the teacher at any time during class. If children make progress in concentration, they should be praised and encouraged in time to help them strengthen.
4. Cultivate regular living habits. Such children should cultivate regular living habits from an early age. Eat regularly and get enough sleep. Children should not be allowed to watch movies and TV late into the night, which will affect their sleep.
5. Cultivate their self-esteem and self-confidence. For such children, we should patiently and repeatedly educate them to help them cultivate self-esteem and self-confidence, eliminate their nervousness and help them improve their self-control ability. Parents should always keep in touch with doctors, help doctors understand the situation of educating their children, and ask doctors to guide treatment. If conditions permit, strive for the cooperation of doctors, parents and teachers to do a good job in education.
If drug treatment and education measures are properly coordinated, some children can become quiet and focused in a short time and achieve good results.
behaviour therapy
Behavioral therapy is a method to correct children's misconduct by using learning principles. When they have appropriate behaviors in their studies, they will be rewarded in time to encourage them to continue to improve and seek consolidation.
When some inappropriate behaviors appear, we should ignore or temporarily deprive them of some rights, which will make these behaviors gradually disappear. If the teacher writes down the number of times the children twist their buttocks in class, if it decreases, praise it and bring a report to parents every day. If the number of children twisting is reduced, parents will reward them according to the report. Reward methods can be determined according to the specific situation of each family, such as letting them watch TV at night, or going to the zoo on holidays, or rewarding toys.
food therapy
Recent studies have shown that a large number of foods containing tyrosine and salicylate, as well as foods contaminated with condiments, artificial colors and lead, will lead to ADHD in children with ADHD genetic tendency, or make ADHD symptoms worse. On the contrary, children with ADHD can obviously reduce their symptoms as long as they limit this kind of food. Therefore, the diet of ADHD children should pay attention to the following points:
1. Eat less food containing tyrosine, such as dried noodles and cakes. Eat less food containing methyl salicylic acid, such as tomatoes, apples and oranges. Do not add spicy condiments, such as pepper, to your diet, nor use tartar yellow pigments, such as shellfish, scarlet, orange and olive.
2. Eat more foods rich in zinc. Because zinc is a trace element in human body, it is closely related to the growth and development of human body. Zinc deficiency often leads to loss of appetite, stunting and mental retardation in children. It is found that most students with excellent academic performance have high zinc content in their hair. Therefore, eating more foods rich in zinc, such as eggs, liver, beans, peanuts, etc., will help improve intelligence.
3. Eat more foods rich in iron. Because iron is the raw material for hematopoiesis, iron deficiency will cause brain dysfunction, affect children's mood and aggravate ADHD. Therefore, children with ADHD should eat more iron-rich foods, such as liver, poultry blood and lean blood.
4. Eat less food containing lead. Because lead can change children's visual movement, memory feeling, thinking in images, behavior and so on. Children with ADHD should eat less preserved eggs and shellfish containing lead.
5. Eat less food containing aluminum. Because aluminum is a metal that threatens human health. Eating too much aluminum can lead to mental retardation, memory loss, loss of appetite and indigestion. Children with ADHD should eat less fried dough sticks, because making fried dough sticks requires adding alum to flour, and the chemical composition of alum is potassium aluminum sulfate. Therefore, eating fried dough sticks is not good for children's intellectual development.
Treatment of ADHD method 2:
The treatment status of ADHD can be divided into three categories:
At present, there are many conventional treatments for ADHD, such as drug therapy, rehabilitation training, diet therapy and so on.
1, drug therapy
Drug treatment of ADHD still has a certain effect. Drug control may achieve a certain effect in the early stage of ADHD, but once the drug is stopped, the symptoms will be repeated, and drug treatment will make children dependent and have certain side effects. Relying on medication can't relieve children's troubles at all.
2. Rehabilitation training
Many parents, after learning that their children have ADHD, think that it is not a hospital, but a rehabilitation training institution. They think that children are just behavioral ADHD and can be recovered through behavior correction or training. They don't correctly realize that ADHD is actually a disease, which will not only have a certain impact on children's body, behavior and even psychology. Rehabilitation training alone cannot completely cure ADHD.
Step 3: Diet therapy
Some parents of children with ADHD will learn through introductions or materials that food therapy will restore their health. Do you really believe it? Is health eaten? In this way, authoritative experts in Guangzhou Harmony Hospital warned that ADHD is a developmental and behavioral disease of children, which needs to be recovered through equipment inspection and technical treatment in regular hospitals. Dietotherapy can only be an item that should be paid attention to when nursing children on the basis of cure, and attention should be paid to the nutritional collocation and conditioning of children after cure.
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