babies with multiple rounds of antibiotics might be a cause of adhd

Bre - posted on 11/09/2011

My son was never on antibiotics as a baby. He nursed until he was 8 months old and never got sick. His ADHD & ODD is definitely in his genes, stemming from his father who also has the same thing.

Helen - posted on 11/01/2011

My son has rarely taken antibiotics for any reason and he has ADHD.

Heather - posted on 10/11/2011

That is an interesting therory. I have 4 sons, two with ADHD, and two without. I can not say that antibiotics could have caused any issues because my one son was on oodles of antibiotic, steroids for breathing etc etc and he has no signs of ADHD. My sons that do have AdHd are extreemly healthy with little to no antibiotic therapies. In fact, my one son with ADHD I gave him antibiotics once. It caused him to have such a reaction, that he just ran in circles in my kitchen for over an hour....it was suposed to make him sleepy. Propmply took him off that, and I can not say he ever had antibiotics again!!

Michele - posted on 09/26/2011

My son had numerous ear infections, one after the other, but my daughter never even had one as a baby. Her adhd is worse than his. Genetics plays a huge part in adhd. I believe the candida theory was a theory that they originally believed caused autism.

Phyllis - posted on 09/26/2011

Yes, as a matter of fact she did. This is very interesting news. She had antibiotics for almosst the first 6 months of her life due to ear infections.

Beth - posted on 09/26/2011

no my ADHD child did not have a lot of antibiotics as a baby. she only had a couple of ear infections and she was and is still fairly healthy , except for the allergy (pollen) induced asthma. Hurray for living in the pollen capital of the world. My youngest who is not ADHD was in the NICU as a newborn.



If this was true more kids would be ADHD. My friends daughters have been sick for most of their lives , RSV among others, and they are both "normal" .

Amy - posted on 09/25/2011

Yeah, I think it's genetic in my family, too. I think I had it as a child (but girls weren't diagnosed in the 70's and 80's), my brother was medicated for it, and I think my mom had(s) it, too. But I wonder if antibiotics or something would help trigger it, or make it "worse?" I'll have to check out the research. I bet it's interesting!

Rosie - posted on 09/25/2011

i believe it's genetics MOSTLY as well beth. ;) his biological father is very similar. however it does make sense to me about the antibiotics. did your child have a lot of antibiotics as a baby?

Beth - posted on 09/25/2011

This is not true of my ADHD child. ADHD is caused by genetics. Extra or missing genes in DNA.
http://news.discovery.com/human/adhd-gen...
http://add.about.com/od/adhdthebasics/a/...
The increased identification of indivuals with ADHD is because of increase in medical knowledge. They are no longer classified as "bad kids" or mentally unstable . I can trace ADHD in my family back to my grandmother and likely goes further back I just don't have information for further back than that. When my grandmother was in her 30s she had to undergo shock therapy because she was"crazy". I believe she was a very misunderstood ADHD-C. No impulse control.

Amy - posted on 09/25/2011

One thing about the health reforms that I LOVE is the electronic medical records. Once these are finally centralized, researchers will be able to do some amazing data-mining. It will be so cool to see what correlations existe, especially when they will have access to such a massive data set.

Amy - posted on 09/25/2011

Interesting. At first, I was thinking that wouldn't be my son, but then when I think about it, he was in the NICU for 4 days fighting a septic infection and jaundice. He was hooked up to IV antibiotics from days 2-4. Huh.