Alzheimers Signs and Symptoms

ADD Symptoms Explained

Understanding the difference and understanding the different types of ADD symptoms can help ensure that you or your child gets the right treatment.

Different Symptoms

ADHD symptoms include three different categories. These are:

• Inattention or Lack of concentration

• Hyperactivity

• Impulsivity

ADD, on the other hand, only causes the inattention symptoms. Treating a patient for ADHD when they have ADD symptoms is overmedicating and could lead to further issues. In many cases the stories about Ritalin and other ADHD treatment medications that cause a child to be zombie-like are probably linked directly to medicating children with only ADD with the wrong medication or wrong doses, thinking that they have ADHD.

Symptoms of inattention

With ADD the only kind of symptoms that can be showed are symptoms of inattention. These are:

• No concentration to detail

• Errors of inattention

• Simply unfocused

• Lack of listening abilities

• Difficulty in following directions

• Leaving tasks uncompleted

• Uncontrolled

• Absentminded

In general, a person with ADD will seem very disorganized and off track. They may often be referred to as scatter brained or as an air head. It is easy to often relate symptoms of ADD to age related behavior instead of recognizing that it is not normal.

Diagnosing ADD can help a child get a grasp on things and start to be able to focus. A child that is treated for ADD will begin to do better in school and have better behavior overall.

In several conditions, parents think that the kid couldn’t be ADD since they’re able to sit for hours to do something that they like without being distracted.

Distraction just appears to be occurring when they’re doing something they dislike, so parents are possible to respond with punishment instead thinking that the kid simply doesn’t want to do the task at hand. The fact is that children who are suffering from ADD are able to focus if they enjoy what they’re doing, because it doesn’t need to concentrate and to be focused like the activity that they don’t like.

ADD may get worse when the kid grows, or at least continue to bring about troubles with school as well as other activities. At that time, however, it grew into something that is possibly causing all on issues in the life of the child.

It is much better to catch ADD in younger children so they can get used to taking ADD medications and learn how to overcome the symptoms of ADD.