How long do you have to keep taking medication for Tourette’s syndrome?

Tourette’s syndrome medication to continue to take how long, need to make a choice according to the patient’s condition, some children need to continue to take medication for several weeks or more than a year. If children with Tourette’s syndrome have transient tics, and the symptoms are not obvious at the onset, patients with this type of Tourette’s syndrome generally respond relatively well to medication, and the medication can be continued for a few weeks to less than a year, with a relatively good prognosis. However, if the children’s tics belong to chronic tics or Tourette’s syndrome, the symptoms are relatively obvious, or the duration of the disease is more than one year, the response to the drug is relatively poor, you may need to take more than one year, or even need to take until adulthood. Tourette’s syndrome take medication to get better still need to take how long, need to be based on the patient’s condition to determine, it is recommended that the patient should follow the doctor’s instructions for medication, and regular visits to the hospital Neurology Department or Pediatrics Department for review.