How to treat Tourette’s syndrome in children

  Pediatric tic disorder is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder, also known as multiple tic disorder, mainly manifested as involuntary, stereotyped movements, such as frequent blinking, shaking head, shrugging shoulders, making coughing sounds, clearing throat, etc., more common in males. The treatment of pediatric tic disorder is as follows: 1. Western medicine treatment: Western medicine treatment of this disease mainly uses psychological adjustment therapy, drug therapy, and also surgical treatment and other methods.  (The purpose of psychological support and cognitive therapy is to let the child and his family understand the nature of the disease and the reasons for the fluctuation of symptoms, to adjust the family system, to eliminate factors in the school and family environment that may have an adverse effect on the symptoms, to reduce the child’s anxiety and depression secondary to the tic symptoms, and to improve the child’s social adjustment.  (2) Medication: First of all, we should treat the causative factors, such as tonsillitis, conjunctivitis, rhinitis, etc. For children with severe symptoms, haloperidol can be tried, and for children with severe anxiety, sedatives such as Valium can be given.  (3) Surgical treatment: transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation or neurosurgical stereotactic surgery can be tried, but the efficacy and safety of some treatments are yet to be determined, and they are only applicable to adult patients, patients with treatment difficulties, etc., and are not suitable for use in childhood.  2, Chinese medicine treatment: Chinese medicine according to a holistic view and dialectical principles of the etiology, pathology and syndromes of tic disorders typing, reference to the principles of Chinese medicine treatment, purposeful selection of treatment methods, both the symptoms and the root cause of treatment, the process of treatment according to changes in the condition at any time to adjust the drugs, after the symptoms control can be used to consolidate the effectiveness of the method to reduce recurrence.