Whether Tourette’s syndrome in children can be completely cured varies from person to person. Most children with Tourette’s syndrome have symptoms that gradually disappear after adolescence and can be cured, while some children with Tourette’s syndrome have symptoms that persist into adulthood or even throughout their lives.
Tourette’s syndrome in children is a psychiatric disorder that starts in childhood and adolescence, and is characterized by recurrent motor tics with vocal tics in several parts of the body, accompanied by obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The principle of treatment for Tourette’s syndrome in children is to give equal importance to both medication and psycho-behavioral therapy, and to focus on the individualization of treatment. Overall, the prognosis of Tourette’s syndrome in children is relatively good, most of the children can be cured after treatment, but there are a small number of patients who will continue into adulthood before cure, or even incurable, but the IQ and life expectancy is not affected.