It may sound banal but looking both ways when crossing a road, could save an ADHD child's life! Studies about ADHD concerns in theUK, Scotland and more recently in the Pediatrics Journal all point up the same problem. The fact is that because of impulsivity and inattention, these combine in a deadly way and may end up in your child being involved in a road accident.

All the figures for adults with ADHD and teenagers all show that they are far more likely to have car accidents or be involved in driving offences.

Studies done at the University of Aalabama Injury Control Research Center showed that ADHD concerns as regards safety were justified because the kids with ADHD had a far higher number of close calls as they were crossing the road.

Many experts have said that the best ways is to use  role play for crossing the road and also to use driving simulators for teenagers when they get their driving license. This  has been extensively researched by Dr. Gregory Fabiano at theUniversityofBuffalo.

It seems that as ADHD children are given medication in the morning, they are somewhat less at risk. It is in the afternoon as the effects of the meds wear off and they are coming home from school, that the risk is far greater.

There is also another factor to bear in mind. The summer that many children are also given a break form medication and that may well impair their functional capacity and their control of impulsivity. it is also the time f year when kids tend to be out and about far more.

Another one of the ADHDF concerns regards the side effects and risks attached to ADHD meds. The FDA revealed only a few months ago that they had no intention of revising heir guidelines as regards the cardiac risk associated with Adderall, Ritalin and Vyvanse. The standard procedure is that all children should first be assessed for risk of cardiac events before being put on this type of medication.

There are other ADHD concerns too :-

• the long term effects of ADHD meds have not bee fully disclosed
• the side effects and other risks are deliberately played done by the pharmaceutical industry
• there is now evidence to show that after three years, the effects of these meds wear off
• research supports a better home environment plus management of child behavior as one way forwards
• there is now hope that there can be less reliance on the medication and more apace and attention given to alternative remedies for ADHD.

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