Acne ADHD Signs One

 Is acne can be a sign someone has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? A psychiatrist Canadian study showed that people with acne are substantially more likely to have ADHD than people with other skin problems.
ADHD is a developmental disorder in increased motor activity of children to lead children's activities are not uncommon and tend to be exaggerated. There are two main aspects of ADHD, which is difficult to focus and hyperactivity habits (behavior that can not be silent) - impulsive (hard to delay the response or impatient)

"Acne patients should be further investigated to ensure it is correct the signs of ADHD. This is certainly supported when children complain of difficulty concentrating and impusif," said Madhulika A. Gupta, MD, from the University of Western Ontario in London, as well as research the American Academy of Dermatology.
"The children or adolescents with ADHD suffer from acne that does not look different from the child or adolescent with acne who do not have ADHD. Yet when asked if they had difficulty concentrating in school, the answer would be a definite yes," he added.
Acne and ADHD
Gupta also said, there have been previous studies that associate acne with a number of psychiatric problems, including depression and eating disorders. However, no one has examined the possible relationship between acne and ADHD.
So that Gupta and his colleagues examined data on nearly 950 million doctor visits for skin conditions between 1995 and 2008, to see if there is traffic associated with ADHD. Of the total data traffic, there are more than 100 million visits involving the diagnosis of acne and nearly 175 million visits involving atopic eczema, a condition characterized by red, itchy skin, dry.
Gupta said, other skin diseases are atopic eczema chosen for comparison because they usually begins in childhood. The average age of patients with ADHD and acne studied was 15 years, and the average age of patients with ADHD and atopic eczema was 11 years old.
The results of the study showed that ADHD visits involving acne diagnosis 6.3 times more than the diagnosis of other skin diseases. While for atopic eczema was 5.6 times as much.
Just a coincidence?
However, other researchers said the findings might be just a coincidence.
"Acne is a common problem experienced by adolescents. While ADHD also occur among teenagers. So could this just a coincidence," says Zoe D. Draelos, MD, consulting professor of dermatology at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC.