Summer vacation is over! After surviving the stressful final exams, children are as happy as a bird out of a cage, and many summer vacation activities have begun. However, parents of children with Tourette’s Syndrome are worried again. Although there is no more pressure from the intense academic work, new problems have emerged, the children are at home in the summer vacation, playing computer games, cell phones, and watching TV endlessly. What to do? Indeed, in the idle and lazy summer vacation, there are many children instead of the recurrence and aggravation of Tourette’s syndrome. In recent days, many parents in the clinic are also asking about the precautions to be taken during the summer vacation, so here are some tips for children with Tourette’s syndrome: Tip 1: Regular work and rest, a combination of work and rest Because they don’t have to go to school, children tend to play like crazy, sleep late, and can’t get up in the morning, and their work and rest schedules become chaotic, and they are often fatigued due to over-playing, resulting in aggravation of Tourette’s syndrome; in addition, if you go out to travel and have fun, your biological clock may be disrupted. Be disrupted, so pay more attention to the combination of work and rest, regular work and rest, early to bed and early to rise body good! Tip 2: on time and quantitative completion of homework is also very important Some children in order to play will be compressed in a few days to complete the homework, this is not right, not only can not achieve the purpose of the teacher to assign homework, but also increase the psychological pressure, especially at the tail end of the summer vacation to make up for the homework, often due to too much tension and lead to an increase in tic disorders. So in accordance with the teacher’s requirements, the homework evenly divided into each day to complete Oh! Tip 3: do not play computer games, less TV During the holidays, due to the difficulty of parental supervision, children at home often spend a lot of time on the computer, mobile games and TV, which will not only damage the child’s eyesight, more likely to induce tic disorders as a result. Therefore, less television should be watched, and should not watch thrilling, bloody and violent programs, and not play thrilling, intense and exciting computer and cell phone games. Parents should also strengthen supervision and guidance. Tip 4: About Swimming The weather is hot, and parents are especially concerned about whether swimming is suitable for children with Tourette’s syndrome, and whether swimming will aggravate the symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome. Swimming may aggravate the symptoms of tics, so if children with Tourette’s syndrome want to swim during the summer vacation, pay special attention to the following points: (1) Prevent cold water stimulation, try to pick a pool with the right water temperature, preferably outdoor pools where the sun is shining in the afternoon. If the weather turns cold, it is not recommended to swim; (2) swimming before the appropriate amount of warm-up exercises; (3) swimming attention to wear a good swim cap and goggles, you can also wear nose plugs, in order to prevent the eyes, nose into the water; (4) according to their own children’s physical, psychological and physical strength, do not swim too tired, and do not soak in the water for too long, it is recommended that half an hour or less; (5) in the tic symptoms of frequent attacks Don’t go swimming, and if the tic symptoms worsen after swimming, it is recommended to pause. Tip 5: eat less cold drinks In the summer, ice cream and sweet ice cream is the children’s favorite, these cold drinks for sensitive children with Tourette’s syndrome is also a kind of stimulation, so pay attention to eat as little as possible, in addition to the child’s spleen and stomach is young, it is not suitable for more cold food to avoid damage to the spleen and stomach. Tourette’s children are also not suitable to drink functional drinks and carbonated drinks. Tip 6: Beware of colds In the heat of the summer, some children are greedy for cool air-conditioning temperature is too low, cold and hot easy to catch a cold, if the unfortunate cold, the need for active treatment to control the symptoms of cold as soon as possible such as sneezing and coughing, so as not to cause frequent sniffing, clearing the throat due to the cold and other tic symptoms.