Should Tourette’s syndrome be treated?

Tourette’s syndrome (generally still need to be treated) whether the treatment depends on the comprehensive assessment of the patient’s tics, if it is mild tics, for example, the patient only has frequent blinking, light cough or involuntary nasal sounds, is not very much affecting the patient’s life, learning and so on, we can first carry out psychotherapy. The purpose of psychotherapy is to adjust the environment and eliminate the influence of unfavorable psychological factors on the child, but also to strengthen the education of parents. If the child’s hyperactivity symptoms are more obvious, such as lasting for a long time, there is no way to control, affecting the child’s learning and life, which needs treatment. At present, we use a combination of drug treatment and psychotherapy, psychotherapy has been introduced, drug treatment we mainly use antipsychotic drugs, such as haloperidol, can also use some new antipsychotic drugs, in addition to clozapine, such as risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone, ariprazole, but also can use colistin. In addition, if the child is combined with other psychiatric symptoms, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, we can combine with antidepressants, such as clomipramine, fluvoxamine, etc.