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Is your child still very active and/or distracted despite being on ADHD treatment?

Never up the medication dose yourself to control symptoms. Drugs used to treat ADHD are stimulants and may have severe cardiac and neurological effects.

First check other contributory factors like the environment at home and school as possible causes.

Head on over to our ADHD Centre for more on managing the condition.

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