Hyperactive Disease

Hyperactive diseases and disorders are caused by numerous problems in the body that create too much muscle activity and make sufferers feel restless and overly energetic. Hyperactive diseases also make people feel easily excitable and have strong emotional reactions to receiving gifts of having attention-grabbing items taken away. Short attention spans are often found as a co-existing symptom of most hyperactivity diseases.

Causes

• Hyperactivity is a disease or condition caused by other problems in the body. The most common disorders that cause hyperactivity include attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), emotional disorders like obsessive compulsiveness, hyperthyroidism, and disorders of the central nervous system and brain.

Symptoms

• Symptoms of hyperactive diseases include both the symptoms mentioned briefly above, and other more distinct symptoms like fidgeting, constantly moving about the room while watching television or playing a game, talking excessively, pacing, impulsive actions, and inability to remained focused on activities, television shows, games or people.

Considerations

• Parents often ignore hyperactivity in children because some parents believe it to be a disorder used to provide an excuse for a child's behavior. Unfortunately, when hyperactivity is not treated it may lead to problems in the child's adult life. Children with hyperactive diseases may continue to suffer the disease when they are older, or suffer untreated hyperthyroid, nervous and emotional conditions.

Effects

• Children with untreated hyperactivity problems will have numerous other problems resulting from their inability to focus, pay attention and remain calm. Hyperactive diseases leave many children a target of bullies. Children with hyperactive diseases also tend to have trouble making friends, fail tests in school, have trouble paying attention in class, and draw to inappropriate situations that catch the child's attention. Adults left untreated tend to have numerous relationship problems and difficulty concentrating at work.

Misconceptions

• Hyperactive disease is often misunderstood in patients who have always had the tendency of being very active. Problems with diseases that cause hyperactivity occur rather spontaneously, marked by a very noticeable change in a person's regular behaviors. A person who has always been active does not necessarily have a condition that causes hyperactivity. Immediate changes in behavior to include any of the aforementioned symptoms should be discussed with a doctor who will provide proper testing for the conditions causing hyperactive disease.

Treatment

• Home treatment is possible for some hyperactive diseases, although all should be evaluated for potentially greater problems linked to hyperactivity as a symptom. Creating a strict schedule for the child that includes various tasks can accommodate the child or adult's behavior. Chemical imbalances and thyroid problems that are causing the hyperactivity will need to be properly treated with the administration of prescription medications.