What are the dangers of ADHD in children?

ADHD is a common childhood disease in clinical practice. Its occurrence often causes many abnormal behaviors in patients and causes great psychological distress. Many parents are at a loss as to what to do with ADHD. Experts say: ADHD is a common behavioral problem in childhood. It usually starts after the age of 3, with obvious symptoms in school age, and gradually improves with age. Some cases can continue into adulthood.

ADHD threatens children's future

1. Affect learning and poor self-control:

Mild patients may just not be able to concentrate enough on their studies, and their academic performance will decline. They cannot control their behavior and are discriminated against. Children with more serious diseases will have a significant decline in academic performance, cannot keep up with the class, and find it difficult to complete their studies. They often interfere with others and cause trouble. When they are a little older, their self-control ability is often affected by the outside world. Patients often lie, steal, fight, etc. In more serious cases, they will embark on the road of crime.

2. Burden on the family:

Children with ADHD have poor academic performance, are tired of studying, skip classes, and often disrupt classroom order. They are often criticized by teachers, which makes their parents angry and scold their children when they get home. As a result, the children develop a rebellious and hateful mentality, which affects family harmony.

3. Influence on teachers’ teaching:

Children with this disorder often disrupt the class order, fight, and disturb others during class. Even if a lot of time is spent on educating them, the effect is not very obvious. If there are several such children in the class, the teacher's teaching quality will also decline, causing the teacher to be very annoyed and further expel them.

4. High crime rate:

This is one of the more serious dangers of ADHD to children. If patients are not thoroughly treated during adolescence, they will have worse self-control, be more impulsive, and have an extremely high crime rate as adults, thus affecting social stability.

The incidence of ADHD in children is increasing year by year

According to a survey in Beijing in 2010, the prevalence of ADHD among primary school students was 8.6%. There are more boys with ADHD than girls, about 4-9:1. A survey of 1,292 juvenile delinquents in China found that 978 of them had been diagnosed with ADHD during school age, with a prevalence rate of 75%. This shows that children with ADHD are prone to psychological problems, behavioral disorders, and even crimes.