Children who don’t get enough sleep can be fidgety, distracted, forgetful, and impulsive. Sound familiar? Those behaviors are also symptoms of ADHD. That can cause confusion, and potential misdiagnosis, if a clinician doesn’t take care to rule out sleep issues before a child is diagnosed with ADHD.

How to tell whether your child’s symptoms might be caused by ADHD or lack of sleep  —  or both?  Though sleep disturbances severe enough to be mistaken for ADHD are rare, it’s not unusual for kids who have ADHD to be sleep challenged, and inadequate sleep can definitely make ADHD symptoms worse.

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沒有足夠睡眠的兒童可能會感到煩躁不安、心不在焉、健忘和衝動。聽起來是否有點似曾相識的感覺?因爲這正好是ADHD的症狀。所以,如果臨床醫生在斷定孩子有ADHD前,沒有考慮到睡眠因素,就有可能會導致誤診。

如何判斷您孩子的症狀是由ADHD引起,還是睡眠不足所致—又或者兩者都有?雖然睡眠障礙嚴重到引致ADHD誤診是十分罕見,但患有ADHD的小孩出現睡眠問題卻是非常普遍,睡眠不足絕對可以令ADHD的症狀變得更糟。

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