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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 261992" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>I TOTALLY agree!</p><p> </p><p>And so many of these medications are so new....the long term effects haven't even been seen yet....and yet they are giving them to children left and right.</p><p> </p><p>It is my own contention that many of the ADHD medications stunt a child's growth. I have seen it in my own daughter. She comes from a family full of very tall people--was at the top of the pediatric growth charts all through her early development--and as soon as she was given Ritalin, her growth flat-lined. NO CHANGE at all during the time she was taking it. I didn't even have to buy her new clothes one year because she didn't grow out of a thing!</p><p> </p><p>Today, at age 13....she is significantly shorter than her parents, her cousins, and is soon going to be surpassed in height by her little brother. Is is possible that she was going to be the short person in a family of tall people anyway? Maybe. But I can't help but feel that Ritalin was responsible for the year or so that she lost of child-hood development before I finally had the good sense to remove her from this drug.</p><p> </p><p>--DaisyF</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 261992, member: 6546"] I TOTALLY agree! And so many of these medications are so new....the long term effects haven't even been seen yet....and yet they are giving them to children left and right. It is my own contention that many of the ADHD medications stunt a child's growth. I have seen it in my own daughter. She comes from a family full of very tall people--was at the top of the pediatric growth charts all through her early development--and as soon as she was given Ritalin, her growth flat-lined. NO CHANGE at all during the time she was taking it. I didn't even have to buy her new clothes one year because she didn't grow out of a thing! Today, at age 13....she is significantly shorter than her parents, her cousins, and is soon going to be surpassed in height by her little brother. Is is possible that she was going to be the short person in a family of tall people anyway? Maybe. But I can't help but feel that Ritalin was responsible for the year or so that she lost of child-hood development before I finally had the good sense to remove her from this drug. --DaisyF [/QUOTE]
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