"Caffeine" New treatment for children with Hyperactivity Disorder and Attention Deficit
Contracted 5-3% of schoolchildren especially male with (ADHD) where the child suffers from its inability to control his hasty behavior, with difficulty to focus on one thing for the simple. This child is a disaster or a time bomb inside the classroom due to his continuous movement throughout the day and weak attention to the lesson.
How do I know if my child is infected with this disease?
Most natural children shows same behavior of infected one, but natural children shows these sometime a day unlike infected who all the time moves and raises problems. For example, he may catch the electricity and electrocuted with 220 watts frighten and terrorize him, instead of being scared returns to the same work after a while. Also, he may hit the cat in the street until it attacks him, instead of leaving it continue to hurt it until it attacked him many time. Children escape from him because of his continuing harms, his schooling degrees are in decline, gets busy of listening to lesson quickly, violent and hoarse and quickly to forget the punishment.
The most important reason for this confusion is low level or work of nervous system bus (Dopamine) in the brain, most doctors describes (Ritalin) as a treatment for children with (ADHD), it is a very old remedy description since 1950, it has unpleasant side effects such as Vomiting, Nausea, Abdominal pain, Headache, Dryness of the mouth, Increased blood pressure, Dizziness, Insomnia or even death.
Treatment with caffeine is the modern treatment of this disease and is still raises a lot of controversy in medical circles. It works in the same way to increase the level of Dopamine in the brain of the child, but the side effects are less severe where studies found that children with ADHD getting stronger attention and concentration.
Can I give caffeine for a child less than 4 years?
Currently, researchers are conducting intensive studies on the effect of caffeine on children, they had found long-term positive effects by using doses 3 mg / kg on rats newborn testing, but studies are still under development and controversy, therefore abstained to give it to your child without consulting a doctor.
My baby more than 4 years, May allow him to take caffeine products?
Enthusiasm for the results of studies may take you to experiment using caffeine to your child, but you don't need to hurry especially when it comes to children. If your child used to drinks soft drinks, you don't need to increase the dose, but if he unused to drink it, he may infect by negative reactions or might be infected with caffeine sensitivity therefore preferred first to consult his doctor.
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