Children and adolescents with ADHD can have more frequent and even severe harm and injuries than their friends without ADHD. According to research, children and adolescents with ADHD are considerably more likely to be in harm or got injured in certain common areas such as while riding a bicycle, crossing pedestrians, to receive head and more than one part of the body injuries and even be hospitalized for accidental poisoning. It is also indicated that adolescents and children with ADHD may be admitted to ICU’s or have a severe injury that results in disability more frequently than other children and adolescent friends.
Adolescent and children with ADHD come out to have essentially higher medical costs than their other friends without ADHD. Such health care costs for with ADHD patient may be more than twice as high as medical costs for those without ADHD.
The inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and impulsivity of an ADHD child or adolescent would possibly place them in greater risk for accidents and severe injuries.
It is also a necessity to understand the ADHD symptoms as well as other disorders that takes part in the causes of injuries and harm of a child or an adolescent. Those ADHD adolescents that are engaged in driving may always be in trouble and get traffic violations, accidents, and may even get suspended from their driver’s license compared to adolescent drivers without ADHD. For ADHD children, crossing the street is at much risk for them compared to those children without ADHD.
It is certainly important to know safety precautions for both children and adolescents with ADHD. Prevention is better than cure. Though you can’t control them, still you can help them avoid such accidents.
For ADHD children, accompany them as much as possible at all times in every activity that they do. This is whether they go swimming, climbing, or does some play activities. Make sure that they use their helmet and safety elbow pads and knee pads when they ride their bicycle. Harmful objects, tools, and equipments inside the house especially the knives in the kitchen must be kept out of reach for ADHD children.
For adolescent ADHD, give them precautionary measure especially when they are driving. For example, carry as much as possible few passengers or just no passengers at all, plan their trip well and must be ahead of time, no alcohol or using of cellular phones while driving, and make sure that the played music in low volume.
Knowing these will definitely help out ADHD children and adolescents to avoid injuries.