Secondhand Smoke Can Lead to ADHD, Study Shows

ADHD is caused by exposure to a moldy environment. Then the symptoms come into play...and yes, genetics comes into play. 24% of kids will be suseptible. The DNA test is done on chromosone 6 HLA-dr blood test for you doctors out there.

Do you know how ignorant you sound? Those are possible causes or risk factors linked to ADHD. They are not absolute, these studies are showing a correlation that upon further research may be more easily understood.

I don't think he sounded ignorant and although you disagree being nasty isn't helpful. Parents of ADHD children are forever being told this MIGHT be what be causing it. I agree, give me direction, without medication that turns my child into a zombie if you please. I don't really care what caused it; I'm dealing with it. By the way, never smoked, first born child is ADHD and I was mom of the year with that child and even made my own baby food so there were no preservatives or dyes in his food. Second born, no ADHD, still not smoking but really loosened up on the whole food thing and if you had something with blue food dye in it the world didn't go to hell and it shot the genetics theory too. No one knows why some kids can't focus, the medications out there might help some but I saw only issues with them. I found working with my son, who is now 15, the best thing for him. These kids need research into things to help them, not what may be causing it. And really, you're smoking while your pregnant? We need to pay for a study for another reason why people shouldn't smoke while pregnant? Heck if they haven't got it by now, this really isn't a deterrent.

No Lauren, he doesn't sound ignorant. You sound like you are one of those self-righteous nanny-state busybodies who get up in everyone else's face when you don't approve. Now you can point at a smoking parent and demand that they stop smoking in the privacy of their own home or they don't deserve to be parents, all based on an article of a "study" that does not specify how many of those 201 kids with signs of ADHD out of 3000 did not have continine in their systems or how many who exhibited depression and anxiety in the group of ADHD sufferers had none of that chemical. I read years ago that as hard as they tried researchers could not link mothers who smoked during pregnancy to ADHD. I think this study can go to the same place as the one that claimed you should bundle your baby up like it's the dead of winter when you are just taking him to the car in order to prevent skin cancer (right down to putting sunglasses on him)! Of course they don't mention that your kid will have osteoporosis by the time he is twelve from lack of vitamin D.

And thanks john glennon for the USEFUL information you have gleaned from LIVING with this issue.

The thing that is common sense to me though (special educator for 11 years) is that second hand smoke fills children that have higher respiratory rates with NON-oxygen! Cognitive development DEPENDS on Oxygenated blood! So it is obvious to me that all cognitive delays in children with smoking parents - is tied to that smok inhalation one way or another! Not all children are gonna have the same amount of exposure nor are they gonna have the same effects. So if I am a smoker and my child exhibits signs of ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia, or any learning disability - I know to a certain degree no matter how small - my smoking contributed to it! Did it cause it I don't know, but if I had not smoked while pregnant or not smoked around them as toddlers I Guarantee it was a factor! This is one of the things we can get rid of on the list. We can get our kids tested for allergies, we can becareful of metals, we can try to stay away from stress, and we can stop smoking. If our kids are already at a disadvantage due to genetics why add to it?