What is ADHD? What are the manifestations?

  Naughtiness and what is medically referred to as ADHD in children are two different concepts. The former refers to the naughty phenomenon of normal children, while the latter is an abnormal behavioral disorder. ADHD is a common childhood behavioral disorder characterized by short attention span, excessive emotional instability, impulsivity and capriciousness, often accompanied by learning difficulties, but with normal or near normal intelligence.  According to our observations, the development and intelligence of these children are within the normal range, but their self-control is poor. In some cases, uncoordinated and unbalanced movements are seen. Since the distinction between individual ADHD and normal active children is not obvious, the diagnosis of this disease should be made with caution and active children should not be labeled as “hyperactive”.  In addition to inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and learning disabilities, hyperactive children often have headaches, abdominal pain, angina, diarrhea, frequent urination, vomiting, and other symptoms. From a Western medicine perspective, this is mainly an organ dysfunction caused by the transfer of anxiety caused by the stressful stimuli of learning and life to the body. In Chinese medicine, it is caused by the inadequate function of the internal organs.  ADHD is short for hyperactivity syndrome in children. Childhood hyperactivity syndrome, or mild brain dysfunction syndrome, is a relatively common childhood psychological disorder syndrome. The child has normal or near-normal intelligence, excessive activity (some cases do not show excessive activity), inattention, emotional instability, impulsivity and capriciousness, and often accompanied by varying degrees of learning difficulties.  Currently, ADHD is generally referred to abroad as Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children. There are two views on the understanding and opinions of ADHD: one is in a broad sense, all kinds of brain diseases with substantial damage, congenital brain underdevelopment, as well as psychosis, anemia, lead poisoning and other manifestations of hyperactivity, attention deficit, impulsive capriciousness, cognitive or coordinated movement disorders are collectively called “hyperactivity syndrome”. It is a secondary hyperactivity syndrome and a clinical syndrome with multiple etiologies; the other is a narrow definition, which considers that children with ADHD do not have obvious substantive brain damage, their intelligence is normal, no clear etiology can be found, but they have mild brain dysfunction and different degrees of learning difficulties or behavioral disorders. They are highlighted by poor self-control, inattention, hyperactivity, emotional instability, impulsive capriciousness, and impairments in perception, cognition, language, or coordinated movement. Any disease with obvious substantial damage to the brain, childhood imbecility and psychosis are not included in this disease.  The classification and determination of children with ADHD is compared to the general performance of children with symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity called attention deficit disorder (ADHD). It contains behavioral patterns of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. When looking at these characteristics, two subtypes can be distinguished: “hyperactive-impulsive” and “non-hyperactive-impulsive”.