makes strange noises, unable to control the twitching of faces and shaking of hands and feet. The symptoms of Tourette's children always make people mistakenly think that they like to be funny. What should I do if I have Tourel? The doctor said: The best treatment is acceptance and don’t label the child.
3 key points, understand Tourette's disease
1. Tourette's disease occurred in childhood, and the most obvious feature is the repeated Tic (tics) symptoms of movement and sound.
Tourette's disease is caused by excessive activation of dopamine receptors in the brain. The main symptom is involuntary abnormalities in movements and sounds, which is medically called "Tic". This word comes from the French "tique" (tick). When tick bites cows and horses, the rapid movements of the cows and horses, and sometimes also contain sounds to describe tic symptoms.
2. Tourette's disease boys are obviously more than 5 times more than girls, and the symptoms may improve or disappear.
Tourist's disease prevalence rate is about 1 person per 100 people, and the age of prone to occur is about 5 to 8 years old, which is more common in boys. When 30 to 40% of patients grow into youth, the tic behavior will automatically disappear, and 30% will significantly reduce. In other words, only about 30% of patients live with Tourette's disease throughout their lives.
3. Tourette's disease will not cause intelligent degeneration, but it often combines other comorbidities and problems.
Tourette's disease is neither a mental illness nor a mental problem. It is an abnormal central nervous system and will not affect intelligent development. However, tics often interfere with reading, writing, and concentration, resulting in a decrease in learning ability, and are often combined with other comorbidities, such as hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, mood disorders, etc.
Confirmed Tourette's disease must meet 4 requirements:
1, multiple involuntary action
2, one or more involuntary sounds
3, the age of less than 18 years
4, the duration of symptoms is greater than one year
0 Symptoms of Tourette's disease: can be divided into action types and sound type
tics can be divided into action type and sound type, and each can be divided into simple type and complex type as follows:
action type tics
(1) Simple type: sudden, short, meaningless movements, such as blinking, eye movement, grimacing, nose twitching, pouting, head shaking, shoulder shrugging, belly tightening, hand and feet shaking, finger movement, etc., usually less than one second during the action.
(2) Complex type: seemingly purposeful actions, such as: continuous watching something, touching something or someone else, stomping feet, imitating other people's actions, obscene and indecent actions... etc.
sound type tics
(1) Simple type: fast and meaningless sounds and noisy noises, such as: clearing the throat, coughing, blowing the nose, spitting, making screams, sucking sounds, animal-like screams and countless other sounds.
(2) Complex type: Sometimes it will suddenly speak meaningful words, such as: repeating other people's words, eroticism (obscene, inappropriate and aggressive words or expressions).
Why did Touriller do these actions?
In fact, these actions are sometimes involuntary, and sometimes the patient has an urge to be unmoved, which means that if he cannot move, he will feel uncomfortable and can be relieved after moving. Of course they can sometimes hold it up temporarily.
As we know, stress and tension may significantly affect the frequency and intensity of tics. In addition, most patients will fully show tics in a relaxed and safe atmosphere when they are at home, and most of them will disappear completely when they are asleep.
Tourrene's disease generally does not require medication
Military Tourette If you can adapt to strange involuntary actions, you do not need medication. Treatment is considered unless tic symptoms have seriously affected the daily social life of parents or children. Treatment methods can be divided into two categories:
1. Behavioral treatment: It is recommended to try non-drug behavioral treatment first. The treatment method is to train the Tourette patients once they notice the signs of tics, they try to make some opposite or less affect other people's reactions to replace the original tics, so as to reduce the impact of symptoms on themselves and others.
2. Drug treatment: Dopamine antagonists are mainly used, which usually have very significant therapeutic effects.
Tourel care points
1. Let Tourel engage in interested and sustainable activities
Motional Tourel can participate in more physical activities, such as exercise, drumming, dancing, etc.; sound-type Tourel can engage in reading, singing, playing instruments and other activities. As long as parents can find Touriller's expertise and interests and let them play out, the symptoms will gradually be reduced!
2. Give your children a moderate space, don’t pay too much attention to the condition
tics Since it is involuntary action, the patient itself cannot suppress it 100%. Family members can moderately ignore Touriller’s symptoms. There is no need to deliberately ask them to suppress their movements or voices. Let the children learn how to adapt to the symptoms. This is the correct attitude.
3. Tell the teacher about the symptoms and work together to establish a friendly learning environment
Tourish disease is mostly caused by school-age children. You can clearly explain the child’s current situation and symptoms to the teacher so that the teacher can explain Tourilla’s symptoms and places where help is needed to the classmates in the class, and establish a friendly and mutually helpful learning environment to avoid bullying.
