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the issue with high fevers (really, really high and over a period of time) is also another form of neurological damage, but again, it's not adhd (tho it may look that way!)
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Well, it's a long story, but my son ended up running high fever for 3 weeks (one at home, two in the hospital). It would go up to 105 degrees and never really fall under 102. Go figure.
[QUOTE=uklouise]i beleive my son`s has something to do with the mmr injection he was 100% until he had them[/QUOTE]
i have heard that before. I am not sure, but if memory serves me correctly, there was a thread about that months ago. I'm gana have to go on a hunt.
I was reading in a book about the history of Ritalin and ADHD. Apparently, doctors started noticing back in the early 1900s that after an epidemic of whooping cough, many of the surviving children became hiperkinetic.
My ADHD son had a bad pneumonia at 20 months, and now he's 8. I can't help but wonder if all that fever had something to do with it, and would like to hear if you faced a similar illness with your ADHD children.
Thank you!
In my family it seems to be more of a heredity issue. We see it in three generations - don't really know about the ones before that. High fevers do affect the brain, though - interesting.[QUOTE=ogram][QUOTE=JPmom]
I was reading in a book about the history of Ritalin and ADHD. Apparently, doctors started noticing back in the early 1900s that after an epidemic of whooping cough, many of the surviving children became hiperkinetic.
My ADHD son had a bad pneumonia at 20 months, and now he's 8. I can't help but wonder if all that fever had something to do with it, and would like to hear if you faced a similar illness with your ADHD children.
Thank you!
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oh, YES. my son's neuropsy asked straight up on the first 5 minutes of the first visit if he ever had a fever over 103. well, he hadn't. then he asked if he had any head or neck trauma. Which he had (a book end fell of a shelf and cold cocked him in the forehead, and he fell and hit the coffee table's sharp corner and had 6 stitches right on his temple. But he said those were not what he was talking about. He was talking about any thing that would make his brain swell. I asked why, and he told me that if the brain swells or any thing that will josh the brain around (i guess like shaking baby syndrome) can cause more than just adhd. Now this is just his "expert opinion". lol That's why they call it "practice" and not perfection. lol
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any fall that knocked a child unconscious and required stitches may have caused even minimal brain swelling and subsequent damage. ogram, did you have an x ray done at the time?
we just went thru this with my 7 yr old.
this type of brain damage may look like adhd but it is not. it's a head injury.
the issue with high fevers (really, really high and over a period of time) is also another form of neurological damage, but again, it's not adhd (tho it may look that way!)
ogram's doc was probably trying to rule out other types of damage/problems to know HOW and WHAT to treat- meaning is it brain damage or adhd.
In my family, it is inherited, although my son is adopted
. My brother was a very healthy kid, and he had undiagnosed ADHD that got him into A LOT of trouble when he was a kid and a teenager. His son is fifteen, made a perfect score on the Stanford, and is making C's and D's in high school because he can't get organized, remember to turn things in, study for his tests, quit talking, etc. Of course, he's also smoking weed 
. He's a GREAT kid--sweet, funny, thoughtful, and ADHD!!! And I can't get my brother to do anything about it. My brother says, "Oh, he's just a teenager." 
Nope. Sorry. He's ADHD, and he inherited it. No high fevers, no knocks on the head, no excuses in my family, just genes, baby, genes. lillian38800.3374652778[QUOTE=JPmom]
I was reading in a book about the history of Ritalin and ADHD. Apparently, doctors started noticing back in the early 1900s that after an epidemic of whooping cough, many of the surviving children became hiperkinetic.
My ADHD son had a bad pneumonia at 20 months, and now he's 8. I can't help but wonder if all that fever had something to do with it, and would like to hear if you faced a similar illness with your ADHD children.
Thank you!
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oh, YES. my son's neuropsy asked straight up on the first 5 minutes of the first visit if he ever had a fever over 103. well, he hadn't. then he asked if he had any head or neck trauma. Which he had (a book end fell of a shelf and cold cocked him in the forehead, and he fell and hit the coffee table's sharp corner and had 6 stitches right on his temple. But he said those were not what he was talking about. He was talking about any thing that would make his brain swell. I asked why, and he told me that if the brain swells or any thing that will josh the brain around (i guess like shaking baby syndrome) can cause more than just adhd. Now this is just his "expert opinion". lol That's why they call it "practice" and not perfection. lol
Genes for my ds also. But, I trust my son's dr. before my own opinions. He's the one with education, not me.
ogram, did you have an x ray done at the time?"
heck yeah, that was the first thing we did for both bobos. And at the time of the first office visit with the dr. We went from the dr to the exray and then the mri, then a tova, then a brain scan. he never lost consciousness (i guess me saying "cold cocking him", was not really the correct term and a bit misleading, it bounced of his head. (is that better?
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I don't pretend to guess what the dr was "probably ruling out". I asked straight up why he is asking and what it meant.
~Man, just the memory with all the blood running down from my ds' forehead just makes me sick to my stomach, I felt so bad for him. My poor baby. I got to go kiss his face all over, now.~
Genes here as well. But Todd was born blue, so that may have added to the problem.