Is transient tic disorder serious in infants?

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Tourette's syndrome is a common symptom of many children. Generally, Tourette's syndrome can be cured by itself. Parents don't have to worry too much, and even some adults will shake. Children's Tourette's syndrome is a normal reaction. Children's Tourette's syndrome is a motor or vocal muscle spasm that often occurs in childhood. It is mainly manifested as involuntary and rigid movements, although it will heal with age, However, if the tic is severe, we should go to the hospital as far as possible, because the children with tic have poor self-control ability. Affected by the tic symptoms, they are often discriminated against and ridiculed by teachers and classmates, leaving a shadow on the children.

Is transient tic disorder serious in infants?

Mental factors: fright, emotional excitement, sadness, etc. children's mind is relatively simple, and their ability to accept is very strong. Excessive mental fluctuations can also lead to the occurrence of tic. In addition, physical factors: neuropsychiatric type than angle sensitive children prone to the disease, such as neuroticism, timidity, hyperactivity, emotional instability, sensitive to people and things and stubborn tendency. And this disease is often accompanied by headache, abdominal pain, constipation, enuresis, etc. of unknown cause, so it is speculated that children's tic syndrome is related to children's physical factors.

In addition, family environment factors are also crucial, such as long-term beating and scolding of parents, divorce of parents and so on, which easily lead to the occurrence of tic. Moreover, the complications of some diseases can also be tic. Sudden diseases, such as upper respiratory tract infection and slight brain damage, can also be one of the inducements. Studies have found that severe colds can also induce tic.

Tic usually takes the twitch of eyes, face and head as the first symptom, such as blinking, crooked mouth or shaking head, and then gradually moves to the neck, shoulder and other places. And from simple movement to complex movement tic. All children eventually develop vocal twitch. And in recent years, some patients have noticed that many children have local body discomfort, such as pressure, itching, heat, cold or other discomfort, before motor tic or vocal tic tic. The occurrence of multiple concurrent situations.

matters needing attention

There are psychological support therapy, cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy. The purpose of psychological support and cognitive therapy is to adjust the family system, let the patients and their families understand the nature of the disease, the causes of symptom fluctuations, eliminate the adverse factors in school and family environment that may play a role in the generation or maintenance of symptoms, reduce the anxiety and depression secondary to tic symptoms, and improve the social function of patients. There is evidence to support that behavior therapy such as habit reversal training has a positive effect on the correction of tic symptoms.