How do you know if your child has ADHD?

In recent years, the number of children suffering from ADHD has been increasing, which is mainly related to genetic, psychological and environmental factors. The most obvious symptom of ADHD is being naughty and active, and being unable to sit quietly for more than five minutes. Children with ADHD need timely psychological treatment and necessary drug treatment. If treatment is not timely and the symptoms worsen, it will have a serious impact on the child's growth. So how can we know if our child has ADHD?

It needs to be confirmed based on the symptoms. Inattention, hyperactivity and impulsive behavior are the core symptoms of ADHD and have diagnostic value.

Symptoms of ADHD include:

1. Pay attention to defects

The core symptoms of this disease are obvious difficulty in concentrating and short attention span that are disproportionate to age. Patients often have difficulty paying attention when listening to lectures, doing homework or other activities, and are easily distracted by external stimuli. Unable to pay attention to details in study or activities, and often make mistakes due to carelessness. Patients are prone to losing things, often losing toys and school supplies, forgetting daily activity schedules, and even forgetting homework assigned by teachers.

2. Too much activity

Symptoms include patients often appearing restless, making many small movements, being unable to sit still, and twisting and turning in their seats. Leaving your seat without permission, running around or climbing in the classroom or other quiet situations. Has difficulty engaging in quiet activities or games and is constantly busy throughout the day.

3. Impulsive behavior

They behave impulsively, do things without considering the consequences and act based on their momentary interests. As a result, they often fight or have disputes with their peers, resulting in adverse consequences. They are eager to answer before the teacher has finished asking the question and are unable to wait patiently in line.

4. Difficulty in learning

Because attention disorders and hyperactivity affect patients' listening in class, the speed and quality of completing homework, resulting in poor academic performance, which is often lower than what their intelligence should achieve.

5. Abnormal development of the nervous system

The patient's fine motor skills, coordinated movements, and spatial position sense are poorly developed. For example, turning hands, finger movements, tying shoelaces and buttoning are not convenient, and it is difficult to distinguish left from right. A small number of patients have problems such as delayed language development, poor language expression ability, and low intelligence.

6. Conduct Disorder

The comorbidity rate of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder is as high as 30% to 58%. Conduct disorders manifest themselves as aggressive behaviors, such as verbal abuse, beating classmates, destroying property, abusing others and animals, sexual assault, robbery, etc., or some behaviors that are inconsistent with moral norms and social norms, such as lying, truancy, running away from home, arson, theft, etc.

The above introduces in detail the six behavioral manifestations of ADHD. The first three symptoms can be used to diagnose whether a child has ADHD, so parents can pay more attention to observing their children's behavior. If the behavior is abnormal, they need to take their children for some routine examinations. Here we recommend parents not to quarrel in front of their children, as this will have a certain guiding effect on their children's illness.