Causes of facial twitching in children

In daily life, parents all hope that their children are healthy and can grow and develop healthily every day. However, children always experience these changes that make parents unable to sleep or eat. For example, children have facial cramps. This phenomenon cannot be ruled out as Zhou Dongsheng's. So what should we do?

Tourette syndrome is a common childhood behavioral disorder syndrome in clinical practice, a syndrome characterized by involuntary twitching of the facial, limbs, and trunk muscles accompanied by abnormal laryngeal pronunciation and obscene language.

The characteristics are that the child frequently squints, frowns, wrinkles the nose, pouts, etc.; followed by shrugging, shaking the head, twisting the neck, and involuntarily making abnormal sounds in the throat, like clearing the throat or a dry cough. A small number of children cannot control their swearing. The severity of symptoms often fluctuates. Colds and mental stress can induce and aggravate the disease. About half of the children suffer from ADHD. Over time it will affect memory and cause students to fall behind in their studies. In serious cases, students may be forced to suspend their studies for disrupting class order.

Haloperidol + Antan are the first choice for clinical treatment.

Oral administration of haloperidol should start from a small dose and increase gradually, 0.25-0.5 mg/d, gradually increasing to 3-4 mg/d. Some patients can achieve satisfactory results with a small dose such as 1 mg/d. Taking haloperidol may cause acute dystonia (such as continuous protrusion of the tongue from the mouth, spasmodic torticollis, etc.), so it is necessary to take Antan at the same time to antagonize the symptoms.

Let us understand facial twitching in children. First of all, such a phenomenon is likely to be caused by tics, a common childhood disease that is difficult to cure. It is recommended that friends take their children to the hospital for examination in time to prevent the disease from worsening.