A developmental disorder occurs which is called ADHD or the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in which attention problem and the hyperactivity (are those people who can not focus their mind for specific work for a longer period of time and soon they lose their concentration from the work) occur side by side. The symptom of this disease appears in the child before seven year age. It is the most common psychiatric disorder in the young childerns. About 3 to 5 % child affected by this disease every year wild wide. The person who has the ADHD disease like loneliness and very few people diagnosed in the childhood mostly diagnosed in the adult age. It is the chronic disorder and tendency of ADHD in boys is more than the girls.
Watson pharmaceutical industries have launched a new medicine for the treatment of the ADHD. The name of the medicine is the generic concerta and its chemical name is methylphenidate hydrochloride extended release tablet. It is the generic version of the concerta and is called as generic concerta but actually its name is concerta. It is approved for the treatment of the both children and adults. It is become so much popular for the treatment that it is stated by the report of the IMS Health that about 1.5 billion generic concerta has been sold in the last twelve month. Generic concerta tablets are available in different strength such as in concerta 18 mg, concerta 27 mg concerta 54 mg and also in concerta 36 mg.Drug should be given with precaution to the following patient such as who have heart problem such as high blood pressure and also the pregnant women must use it with the advice of the doctor and it is totally prohibited in the patient who have glaucoma or have anxiety problems. Allergic patient also use it with care.
As all the medicine has some side effect in the same way concerta also have some side effect. The side effect cause by the concerta is not sever it can easily treated by your health care provider or medication. The most common side effect of the concerta which have been reported include:
About 25 % report the problem of anorexia or loss of appetite. Headache is reported in about 22.2 % patient. Dry mouth is reported in about 14 % patient who are on his medication of concerts . Nausea and insomnia are reported in about 12 % person. Tics, infection in upper respiratory tract and abdominal pain are reported in about 7 to 8 % person. Other than these side effects other effects include weight loss, feeling of irritation, dizziness, sweating become increased, vomiting, tremors and in girls painful periods along with fever are reported in about 5 to 7 % patients. It is also reported that the children who are on the concert medication might have fewer problems with growth. The growth problem is minimal and it does not affect greatly and children can easily catch this up. Other than these problem sexual dysfunction, baldness or hair loss and problem in thyroid glass is also reported.
Concert act as a stimulant and it abuse is dangerous. Abuse of the medication occurs when we took a higher dose of the medication than its therapeutic use. The side effects become pretty severe such as the weight loss serious losses. It can dangerously cause the increased heart rate and hyperthermia and seizure can also occur. If you are concerta abuser than you have to talk to your health care provider as early as possible because it can dangerous or some time life threatening as well.
Concerta was first approved for the children but because of the efficacy of the drug it is also approved for the adults as well. Now it is also used in adult as well to treat ADHD.
Through the use of the generic concerta people can give more attention towards their work for longer period of time and their learning problem also become solved so that your child perform better in the school. You can give it to your child before he goes to school and result will be positive after the use of the generic concerta.
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