300,000 Thai Children Suffer From Hyperactivity

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300,000 Thai children suffer from hyperactivity

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BANGKOK, Dec 11 – More than 300,000 Thai children in grades 1-6, or 7 per cent of 5 million children in the age group, are at abnormal states of hyperactivity, according to Deputy Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew.

He said most parents misperceived their children’s symptom as naughtiness or restlessness.

If untreated, two-thirds of the children may turn into hyperactive adults, one-fourth become arrogant and one-tenth may become addicted to different kinds of drugs or eventually commit suicide, he added.

He expressed concern that most parents are unaware of the negative consequences of hyperactive behaviour or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

According to a global survey, 5 per cent of children worldwide are in hyperactive state and most of them are boys.

Dr Vachira Pengchan, director general of the Mental Health Department, said ADHD is found among children under seven years old, mostly from mothers who smoke or drink alcohol during pregnancy.

The symptom affects the children’s behaviour, temper, education and socialising with others but their intelligence quotients (IQ) are normal.

Parents with hyperactive children are advised obtain the right method in dealing with the abnormal state instead of punishing their children. Punishment will only worsen the situation and deepen the children’s arrogance or protest.

Parents can seek consultations by calling the Mental Health Hotline at 1323 or 1667, or the hotline of the Ratchnagarind Institute of Children and Youth Mental Health at Tel. 02 248 9999, or visit website: www.smartteen.net or facebook.com/smartteen. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2012-12-11

[Thai at Heart]

ummmm, excessive sugar maybe?

[Pimay1]

ummmm, excessive sugar maybe?

You beat me to it again.

[theslime]

Smoking and drinking during pregnancy, same in the west, disgusting. too many want their own happiness first.

[nurofiend]

oh god, adhd, or in other words we don't know what to call your kid running around like a hyped up brat all the time so i guess that'll do

it's the psych docs version of IBS... pains in the stomach, can't find anything? oh that's IBS

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103440/drug-free-treatment

[wayned]

Junk food junkies!

[MaxLee]

Or let's say,... insufficient education system, an education system that is so a$$$$$ boring and abusive, that it doesn't prepare them for the real business world where a lot of facets of intercultural social behavior norms, is A MUST????

[rkidlad]

Yeap, sat in a classroom all day listening to a load of drivel even at kindergarten level. All they seem to do in my school is bookwork. They are 3-4 years old.

Once in a blue moon they visit the playground. The teachers and parents alike seem to have O.C.D when it comes to completing a certain amount of pages everyday without fail.

Young children need to learn through playing, songs and activities. They need plenty of exercise and a healthy diet.

[Nickymaster]

ummmm, excessive sugar maybe?

You beat me to it again.

Yes to much sugar and it also helps to keep them away from Coca Cola etc.

[JetsetBkk]

oh god, adhd, or in other words we don't know what to call your kid running around like a hyped up brat all the time so i guess that'll do

it's the psych docs version of IBS... pains in the stomach, can't find anything? oh that's IBS

http://www.southpark...-free-treatment

[Payboy]

They'll be okay now that they can all play Angry Birds on their tablet PCs.

[whybother]

Don't worry about it. They'll grow out of it in their late teens and become lazy SOBs.

[maturebrit]

bang on mate.....we all know that coca cola increases hyperactivity so much along with high sugar drinks and junk food. I read recently that diabetes has increased 40% in China since they started consuming so much junk instead of trad chinese food

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[upena]

How were they able to count them?

[Fgis]

Sad that when then leave school and start working they are not hyper anymore, it's even the low blood pressure condition...

[MaxLee]

Don't worry about it. They'll grow out of it in their late teens and become lazy SOBs.

No it's more like,... in a lot of schools still, they beat the hell out of the kids, at a young age "for being children", if they "MISSBEHAVE",... and when they grow up, they're growing violent, because, all they ever got to know was "How the teacher beats the hell out of children" <- that creates a negative impression towards teachers among students, and you wonder why children these days become HYPER ACTIVE???

Because nobody wants to sit around for 8 hours plus in a classroom and study irrelevant facts ... of course you get MAD like this->

[blazes]

Or let's say,... insufficient education system, an education system that is so a$$$$$ boring and abusive, that it doesn't prepare them for the real business world where a lot of facets of intercultural social behavior norms, is A MUST????

This post is a trifle overactive, don't you think? (The "real business world" depends, does it not, on aggression, thievery, winning at all costs, and total attention to the "bottom line". A world well suited to ADHD)

[chooka]

ummmm, excessive sugar maybe?

You beat me to it again.

Beat me to it also.

[Tatsujin]

300,000 Thai children suffer from hyperactivity

Erm . . . no . . . 300,000 children suffer from a lack of discipline and direction.

[animatic]

With the worlds highest per capita Intake Of Sugars is it any wonder?

[chooka]

How were they able to count them?

At the school sports day, those lounging around playing ipad games were excluded from those playing sport

[LennyW]

Don't worry about it. They'll grow out of it in their late teens and become lazy SOBs.

Or gun toting gangster wannabes!

Only 300,000?? i would have thought it would be far higher!

[BuddhaChile]

My Thai daughter is hyperactive - but not a problem. We laugh and play together - she's smart - she learns quickly - her mom has taught her to be super respectful …….

Ya, sure she talks a lot but her imagination is incredible. She dances and sings. Maybe she is a "stand out" for hyperactivity - I don't know for sure.

What I do believe is that when some behaviour is given a name - like ADHD or ADD or whatever, one can then "own" it and say "I'm like this because I'm ADD or ADHD". Then, it becomes how they identify in life and, in some cases they feel like there's something wrong with them.

Please don't jump to labelling these kids "hyped up brats" or suggest that "They'll grow out of it in their late teens and become lazy SOBs". Play with them, enjoy them, teach them, love them. You may have been a kid once yourself.

[GentlemanJim]

Do Doctors in some other countries never read The British medical Journal or any of the other reputable medical Journals out there? The UK went through this 25 years ago.

When it comes to buying a property, the golden rule is 'location, location, location', when it comes to having ADHD it's 'crap food and drink, crap food and drink, crap food and drink'. Mix that in with unchecked discipline issues, running after children around the house or garden trying to spoon feed them their meals and hours spent on games consoles offering sensory overload then you have the perfect concoction for hyperactive, unruly children who are unable to sit at a chair in a restaurant for 2 mins. Oh hark what to do the kids are running amok around the restaurant...I know lets give them another large red fanta and a thick slice of toasted bread topped with butter and a thick layer of sugar and condensed milk!

Note to my late Mum and Dad........sorry, I never got the chance to tell you how bloody brilliant you were to me, but I will make sure your Grandchildren know!!!

[GentlemanJim]

My Thai daughter is hyperactive - but not a problem. We laugh and play together - she's smart - she learns quickly - her mom has taught her to be super respectful …….

Ya, sure she talks a lot but her imagination is incredible. She dances and sings. Maybe she is a "stand out" for hyperactivity - I don't know for sure.

What I do believe is that when some behaviour is given a name - like ADHD or ADD or whatever, one can then "own" it and say "I'm like this because I'm ADD or ADHD". Then, it becomes how they identify in life and, in some cases they feel like there's something wrong with them.

Please don't jump to labelling these kids "hyped up brats" or suggest that "They'll grow out of it in their late teens and become lazy SOBs". Play with them, enjoy them, teach them, love them. You may have been a kid once yourself.

Are you sure your Daughter is hyperactive, or by the sounds of it a normal healthy busy little girl. Hyperactive children would not fall into the descriptive category you have given of your daughter. Sounds to me she loves being with and getting attention from her parents and learning. There is a big difference if you have known a real hyperactive child.

[falang9]

yep it's been in the media too ----- sugar in everything!

[humblefalang]

not enough exercise, i say

[Soi Dog]

My Thai daughter is hyperactive - but not a problem. We laugh and play together - she's smart - she learns quickly - her mom has taught her to be super respectful …….

Ya, sure she talks a lot but her imagination is incredible. She dances and sings. Maybe she is a "stand out" for hyperactivity - I don't know for sure.

What I do believe is that when some behaviour is given a name - like ADHD or ADD or whatever, one can then "own" it and say "I'm like this because I'm ADD or ADHD". Then, it becomes how they identify in life and, in some cases they feel like there's something wrong with them.

Please don't jump to labelling these kids "hyped up brats" or suggest that "They'll grow out of it in their late teens and become lazy SOBs". Play with them, enjoy them, teach them, love them. You may have been a kid once yourself.

Amen to that. Too many people are hung on labels and think that labeling behavior defines the person and the problem. Everyone is an individual and needs to be treated as such. On the other hand, if we know that 25% of the ADHD kids will become arrogant then we can know where the next crop of politicians is coming from.

[jasminehotel]

Wondering when it would officially happen here inn Thailand! (And this is just the beginning) First poison the children with MSGs + Aspartame + chemicals + Poisoned Death foods, Minimal fresh veg and fruit, Heavy on meats (Minimised vitamins and micro nutrients) Average IQ drops drastically about 10-15% in tandem then you have a epidemic of behavioural disorders. Then the Drug pushers arrive like vultures get the innocent children addicted to amphetamines and bleed the bovine stupid parents of all their hard earned money, (It normally will kill the children after 10-15 years use). Strange days it is : No Depression, No cancer, No Obesity, No hyper activity and few if any unhappy people here in this once beautiful unconquered country just 20 years ago, Now it all changed, Death, Debt

(Credit cards = banksters / 35% default on loans), Illness, Sadness, environmental collapse (Thailand Conquered after thousands of years of sublime bliss) by an ungodly evil! Gross National production (Growth is death) = Bad---Gross national happiness = Good! Lets hope (STEALING A LINE FROM STING HERE) THAT THE THAIS LOVE THEIR CHILDREN TOO! and wake up to this insane western way of robbing a nations true value (Their children)... P.S.D.

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[Haacker]

Welcome to the USA propaganda drug machine. Children must conform and not step out of the box. I sure hope that the Thai Government dose not or will not sign up to this belief. That all these kids must be put on drugs to suppress there action. Look how well that worked in the US. The children in the US are dumber because of all the drugs the schools tell them they must take. Instead of running schools like prison camps. My be the kids should spend a couple hours a day at play, out side in the open air. By doing this the kids have a chance to burn off some emerge. Why would any Government want to take away what comes natural in childhood?