ADHD - Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental disorders that develop in children. ADHD may cause considerable reductions in the powers of concentration and attention, impulse control disorders or marked hyperactivity and restlessness. In particular the children and the parents suffer from the consequences, but also the school and the social environment (family and friends). If untreated, the disorder can have long-term adverse effects into adolescence and adulthood.

Possible causes

According to the current level of knowledge, ADHD is explained by an abnormal brain metabolism where several messenger substances (neurotransmitters) are produced or dissimilated in the wrong quantity or in an uncontrollable manner.

Up to now, diagnosis often took place by means of psychological questionnaires and IQ tests. Current standard therapy consists of psychiatric drugs. The power of concentration and integration is increased through the common drugs – but partly at the price of serious side effects.

Therefore, physicians and parents search for new possibilities of better understanding the causes of ADHD and of developing a better therapy.

ADHD actually is an extremely complex phenomenon. Recent observations show that the disorder of the messenger balance may have varied causes: genetic, psychosocial or organic.

New diagnostics for ADHD – for a better therapy

These findings resulted in a multi-step diagnostics. This is the first diagnosis procedure that provides the attending physician with a detailed insight into the causes of ADHD. The first step is a new blood test - the nanoparticle analysis (NPA) - that shows characteristic changes of metabolic pathways within the human body. The NPA differentiates what could have triggered the symptoms in the specific case. Generally known are the central disorder - classic ADHD) - on one hand (a genetically determined disturbance of neurotransmitter homeostasis) and psychological disorders on the other. However, NPA also allows the detection of psychosocial disorders. Currently three factors are identified: certain metabolic disorders, gastro-enteropathies and immunological disorders.

Search for causes instead of treatment of symptoms

Depending on the kind of disorder there will be either immediate therapy (e.g. in the case of gastro-enteropathies) or further laboratory diagnostics follows (e.g. if food allergies type III or crytopyrrolury are suspected). The NPA results often indicate that there might be a food allergy type III. In these cases ImuPro ADHD is done, a blood test that detects whether there are IgG-antibodies to certain foods. The 90 allergens selected for the test take into account the favourite foods of children. If the evaluation of the NPA indicates a possible cryptopyrrolury a urine test for cryptopyrrol is done.

This increases the chances that the ideal therapy will be chosen for each child. Depending on the fact whether ADHD is due to a genetic or psychosocial disorder, a metabolic disorder, the condition of the intestine or the immunologic processes in the body, the physician will then be able to individually take the necessary measures.

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