Do you know about Tourette’s syndrome?

Tourette’s syndrome, which mostly begins in childhood or adolescence, is a group of syndromes characterized by involuntary, recurrent, rapid motor tics and or vocal tics in one or more parts of the body. The tics are involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, non-rhythmic movements or vocalizations with no apparent purpose, which are generally uncontrollable but can be controlled by volitional symptoms for a short period of time. Eye muscle twitching: manifested by raising eyebrows, frowning, frequent blinking, squinting, rolling eyes, and staring. Facial muscle twitching: manifested by grinning, pouting, shrinking the nose, playing strange phases, etc. Neck muscle twitching: manifested as nodding, shaking the head, twisting the neck, shrugging the shoulders and so on. Upper limb twitching symptoms: manifested as flinging the hand, raising the arm, twisting the arm, rubbing the fingers, clenching the fist. Lower limb twitching symptoms: manifested as shaking legs, kicking legs, tiptoeing, rotating, and even walking in a critical posture, gait abnormalities, and so on. Trunk twitching symptoms: manifested as lifting up the chest, twisting the waist, twisting the body; abdominal muscle twitching is not easy to be found by parents. Laryngeal vocal tics: manifested as abnormal sounds, such as dry coughing, throat clearing, roaring, or non-stop spitting, or stuttering, inappropriate syllable and accent, involuntary obscene language, cursing, swearing, and so on. Reminder: early symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome often start from the face, such as blinking, nodding and shaking the head, spitting out the tongue and other facial muscle twitching symptoms. If left untreated, the tic symptoms will spread to the body and limbs, and in severe cases, the whole body may even have convulsions. It is recommended that parents must take their children to regular hospitals for examination in time when they find their children with abnormal manifestations, so as to avoid Tourette’s syndrome from bringing more trouble to their children. So, how to reasonably treat children with Tourette’s syndrome? In the process of expert treatment, the parents of the child should actively cooperate with the experts, not to scold the child; not to focus on the child, especially do not watch the child when the child is tic, which will cause a kind of psychological pressure on the child, is not conducive to the recovery of the child. Reasonable practice should be: 1, to help the child to develop a reasonable work and rest time, not overworked, to maintain enough sleep; 2, in the family environment, should avoid direct use of sensitive language to express the symptoms of the child; 3, in the child should be given to ignore the twitching, turn a blind eye to the situation; 4, to give more encouragement to the child, to cultivate the child to build up self-confidence, to relieve the pressure; 5, do not let the child to participate in strenuous exercise, such as military training, long-distance running, competitive sports, and so on, and the child will not be allowed to participate in the work of the child. 6, the study time should not be too long; 7, should communicate with school teachers, avoid giving the child sensitive language critical education, to be well with the treatment period of the child’s education; 8, pay attention to the treatment period of the diet, do not eat greasy, cold, lead-containing food, not spicy, seafood, instant noodles, puffed food during the medication, should be light cuisine for the proper supplementation of nutrition; 9, the season, the season, the season, the season, the season, the season, the season, the season, the season, the season and the season, the season, the season and the season. Seasonal exchange period, especially in spring and fall for the high incidence of colds, should pay attention to the child’s off, dress, be careful to prevent colds, because colds are very easy to cause relapse of the child or the symptoms of relapse, aggravation. 10. Watching TV for more than half an hour a day should not be too intense and stimulating, and those who are seriously ill should avoid watching TV. Avoid the use of computers, if there is a need to study, the use of computers should not be more than half an hour each time, and it is strictly prohibited to eliminate the excessive use of computers or play games. 11, in the treatment period should be on time follow-up, to ensure timely adjustment of medication according to the condition, to improve the progress of recovery. In addition, parents should realize that the treatment of Tourette’s syndrome is a long process, parents should be psychologically prepared to take medication according to the course of treatment during the period of treatment, especially through the traditional Chinese medicine treatment of children must follow the course of treatment, or else there will be twice the effect of half the effort.