What are the characteristics of ADHD in children?

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a disease. It is a phenomenon that occurs in children where their age and actions are inconsistent. In particular, children are prone to impulsiveness and anger. It not only affects their normal life and study, but also has a serious impact on their bodies. When a child becomes hyperactive, parents must pay attention to it and provide their children with formal and systematic treatment. Let’s take a look at the characteristics of ADHD.

Symptom 1: Attention deficit disorder

That is, lack of focus and short attention span. It manifests as inattention in class, wandering thoughts, being easily attracted by surrounding things, and being distracted by external interference. When doing homework, the handwriting is sloppy, the student procrastinates or makes frequent mistakes, and the student often starts but never finishes a task, failing to complete it well.

Symptom 2: Too much activity

Some children show obvious signs of hyperactivity while in their mother's womb. Infants and preschoolers are particularly active, being restless, hyperactive, crying, and difficult to satisfy. As they get older, they become more active, make more small movements in class, run around, jump around, talk too much, do not observe discipline, and ignore danger.

Symptom 3: Impulsiveness and willfulness

Emotions are volatile, easily excited, angry, quarrelsome, and lack self-control. They behave childishly, love to play, skip school, fight, and even lie, steal, and embark on a path of crime. A few have personality and behavioral defects as adults.

Symptom 4: Learning difficulties

Although most of them have normal intelligence, their academic performance is poor and fluctuates. It is sometimes good and sometimes bad. If you pay attention, it will go up and down. If you don't pay attention, it will go down. As they move up to higher grades, their grades gradually decline, and they may even fail or repeat a grade.

Symptom 5: Sensory Integration Disorder

The movements are clumsy, such as buttoning, lacing, using scissors, etc., and walking is not in a straight line. Some children cannot distinguish left from right, up from down, have spatial position disorders, and are prone to misreading or writing similar words.

Symptom 6: Weird Behavior

Such as eating fingers, biting collars, chewing pencils, sucking lips, smelling special smells, etc.

The above is an introduction to the characteristics of ADHD in children. When a child has ADHD, you must pay attention to comprehensive conditioning of the child in life and diet while actively treating him/her, especially communicating with the child frequently. In addition, when undergoing treatment, you must go to a regular hospital for systematic treatment.