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The growth effect is usually small: something like a couple of pounds and a centimetre or two less than expected in the first year or two, with most children catching up afterwards. Knowing the size of it helps, because both blank reassurance and quiet dread are worse than the actual number.
Height and weight get plotted at review appointments for exactly this reason, so ask to see the chart rather than carrying a vague worry between…
Breaks from medication at weekends or over the summer are a tool for a particular problem, usually growth, rather than something everyone ought to be doing. Where growth is fine, a holiday tends to cost more than it gains.
The days without medicine are not neutral days. They are often the days with more accidents, more falling out with people, and more of the shame that…
You may hear that staying on stimulant medication for years can shift the structure of the brain itself, not only the day. It is a real line of research and it is still an open question, so hold it lightly.
The work points at a handful of regions involved in attention and movement, and at a minority of people who stayed on treatment for several years.…
When you pass on the long term brain findings to a family, call it a hypothesis out loud. The study that would settle it, years of random assignment to a real drug or a dummy one, could not ethically be run.
So the honest sentence is something like: this pattern keeps turning up, we do not know which drug or dose or for how long, and some researchers…
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