[angcat]

It seems boys are put on all kinds of drugs these days because they are being BOYS! I have two co workers who have BOYS that are Autistic and they are on Ritalin?

[ozlander]

38% of Autistic kids have epilepsy. These boys need to be tested for that before being put on Ritalin as that drug can cause death in kids with undiagnosed seizures.

[ErnBatavia]

Ritalin is a weird drug; I assume with these hyper kids it's used to calm them down....that's why I was surprised a couple of years ago when the doc prescribed a small (5mg) dose for my Mom to actually 'energize' her from her stuporous condition due to Alzheimers.

It didn't help, but I assume it didn't hurt - we eventually took it out of the regimin.