Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children, also known as ADHD, is mainly characterized by attention deficit, behavioral disorders mainly characterized by hyperactivity and impulsivity. The child's intelligence is generally normal, but there are learning difficulties, motor dysfunction, and psychological abnormalities. Most cases occur before the age of 6, and about 2/3 can persist until adolescence or adulthood. What aspects should children with this disease pay attention to in their daily lives?
Precautions in daily life: 1. Eat a reasonable diet, avoid certain seasonings, and avoid stimulating, spicy, coffee and other easily stimulating foods; Studies have shown that individuals who are overly active are more likely to consume high calorie foods. If this occurs, daily diet should try to reduce sugar intake as much as possible.
2. Ensure appropriate physical exercise and maintain a regular study schedule; Keep the living environment quiet for children.
3. Enhance the body's immunity and prevent various infections.
4. Avoid various strong stimuli, such as watching intense matches, horror movies, and major emergencies.
Parents should encourage and guide their children to participate in various interesting games and activities, divert their attention, help them break free from their closed state, uplift their spirits, and relax their mentality.
5. Manage daily tasks and break down complex tasks into multiple smaller ones that are easier to complete.
6. Take medication on time and in the appropriate amount to prevent underuse, missed use, or overuse, and pay attention to the adverse reactions and treatment methods of the medication.
Pay attention to the psychological care of children:
1. Parents should provide more psychological support, understand and tolerate their children's hyperactivity symptoms, help them eliminate tension and fear, and create conditions in every way possible to let their children live in a calm and confident atmosphere.
2. Patiently understand the child's psychological activities, and never show impatience or anxiety. When the child gets angry, do not provoke them, let alone scold them. Instead, patiently advise and help the child maintain a happy mood, establish optimism, confidence, and enhance their confidence in overcoming the disease.
3. Provide spiritual comfort and positive guidance to children, establish good family and social relationships, actively engage with and talk to children in a friendly manner, use friendly language, and frequently use praise and encouragement; According to the different age stages of children, adopt easy to understand methods to encourage them to actively cooperate with parents and doctors, so that children realize that their uncontrollable symptoms are caused by illness, just like covering their heads when they have a headache, which is natural and not their own fault. Other people and classmates can understand.
4. Parents and children need to maintain a good and calm attitude, and deal with symptoms that their children cannot control correctly, because scolding or beating can worsen or recur the condition.
5. Application of behavior analysis therapy: ① Positive reinforcement method: Strengthening good behavior through praise, approval, rewards, and other means; ② Punishment Law: Punishment helps to reduce or eliminate children's bad behavior. We should adhere to the principle of praise before punishment; ③ Fading method: Before treatment, it is necessary to determine which factors have a reinforcing effect on children's bad behavior, and then carry out its fading. In addition, children with ADHD are particularly active and have endless energy, so they should be provided with a channel to release their excess energy.
For children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, children and parents should have confidence that although the treatment of this disease is relatively complicated, most of the prognosis is still good. They should actively cooperate with doctors, strengthen the daily care and family management of children, and promote the early recovery of the disease.