When you have reason to think that your child might have ADHD your next course of action is to have them properly evaluated and assessed by a trained and qualified ADHD specialist. It is important to understand that there are some unscrupulous folk in the medical profession who will render a diagnosis after a single consultation and nonchalantly hand over a prescription for Ritalin or Adderall, or some other ADHD medication. While some children do respond well to ADHD drugs there are those that show no improvement. Then there are a great many who have to cease taking the drugs because the side effects become too much to bear. In fact, the side effects associated with ADHD drugs have resulted in a great deal of controversy which has simply fuelled the fires of controversy surrounding the actual disorder itself.
There are still those that maintain that ADHD is not a real disorder and that poor parenting, insufficient discipline, too much time playing video games and watching television, and a poor diet are the real reasons behind unruly and bad behavior. Parents are advised by friends and family to be stricter if they wish to have a better behaved, more manageable child. This is all very well and good if the child is merely badly behaved, but for some children, millions in fact, bad behavior is not the result of insufficient discipline, junk food, and video games, it is instead indicative of a very real disorder - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ADHD is believed to spring from a chemical imbalance in the brain and restoring that balance helps to improve the associated symptoms and behaviors. Homeopathic remedies are considered very beneficial in this regard. Rather than simply masking the symptoms for a few hours, the ingredients chosen for the remedy actually work toward treating the disorder.
Obtaining a Diagnosis for ADHD
There is no single test to determine whether a child has ADHD or not. That means that a blood test or brain scan will not indicate if a child has the disorder. That being said there are those that are looking forward to the day when a genetic test will be available and they insist that it is soon going to make its presence known. Those who might have ADHD will simply have to visit their doctor's office for a cheek swab. Results would likely be available just seven to ten days later.
You would be forgiven for thinking that sounds too good to be true given the fact that currently the diagnostic process is a really long and drawn-out one. However, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute (Maryland), a gene has been discovered that is able to indicate who is likely to develop ADHD. Even more remarkable is their claim that this same gene is also able to indicate whether that person would then respond well or not to stimulant drugs, such as Ritalin.
Upon receiving a diagnosis for ADHD the usual course of action is to place the individual on stimulant drugs. For many of these individuals the results are positive but for many others, they are anything but. Either there is simply no improvement at all, or the side effects are too much to handle. If this test were to become available it will provide useful information far more quickly and spare many people, kids especially, the unpleasantness of nasty side effects.
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