Friday, July 27, 2007
Since stimulant medications like Ritilin often suppress appetite, it's long been controversial whether taking those drugs can make kids smaller than they'd otherwise be. A new report on ADHD treatments in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry suggest...
Craig
Thanks so much for sharing the results of this study. I am interested to see how it all turns out and whether the end result (7 years from now) will substantiate the initial results. (For that, we must hope that 7 years from now we all remember this enough to compare.)
Since I do enjoy controversy, I must wonder, when we here so much in the news on childhood obesity, is being 4.4 pounds less really a bad thing?
That being said, I understand that some children do not have the extra weight to lose. I think the best advice would be to make sure weight and growth are consistently monitored by your physician. If your child's weight falls below the normal guidelines, then this should be considered carefully.
Eileen