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Aspergers Medication

There is no official medication or treatment which can cure Aspergers but as there are many other disorders often seen to reside along with Aspergers medication is used to treat them or at least to bring these secondary disorders in control. Disorders like ADHD, Torrette’s Syndrome, Anxiety Disorder and Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD and many others are commonly found in a youngster or an adult suffering from Aspergers.

Certain drugs like clonidine, naltrexone, antipsychotics, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs have been used over the year to try and reduce the various effects of Aspergers. These drugs help to treat the repetitive behaviors but a lot is to be tested before one starts with these medicines as many children in the past have complained about having to face abnormalities regarding metabolism and cardiac transference time as well as long term neurological problems.

Risperidone is one drug which is supposed to help out the child in dealing with self-injurious behavior as well as with violent outbursts and stereotyped behavior. But this drug can cause a child to gain weight and also causes fatigue and for some these symptoms lead to restlessness and sustained muscle contractions.

Many drugs are used to deal with hyperactivity, irritability and aggression but none of the medicines are regular. The doctor prescribes the medicines based on individual patients as the other conditions of his or her health is a determining factor of the probable treatment. There are medicines given for mood swings, attention problems, bipolar disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD.

These drugs are only used to control the situations so that they do not get worse than what already is. They can be anti-depressant medicines in order to help the child with severe depression issues and it can also be stimulants. There are medicines given to make the child with Aspergers more relaxed so that he or she is not stressed out all the time which is fairly common.

The medicines can be both over the counter and prescribed but it is always advisable that one gets prescribed drugs only as the medicines can indeed worsen situations as these are all chemicals and chemicals can always react in an adverse way. Using the drugs for a long time also causes side effects and almost all of the medicines have been reported to cause this. SSRIs like Prozac, Zoloft or Paxil are prescribed to treat idiosyncratic thinking and aggression and these are basically anti-depressant drugs.

Mainly there are a few therapies which are in popular use with people having Aspergers and these therapies help them to get trained in the social norms and the appropriate behaviors. There are natural ways in which one can deal with the various comorbid conditions as well as the various severe symptoms and it is better to take natural medication than to go for prescription or over the counter drugs when it is about treating Aspergers.

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