Early symptoms of tics in children

Children’s health is often what parents care about most. Only when children have a healthy and normal body can they have the capital to grow up happily. Many parents have found that their children often have involuntary tics when taking care of them. In severe cases, they may even hurt themselves and affect their health. In fact, when this happens, we should consider whether the child may have a tic disorder. So what are the specific symptoms of tics in children in the early stages?

1. Early symptoms of tics in children

The main clinical manifestation of children with tics is progressive motor tics and vocal tics in multiple locations. At the onset of the disease, the patient's main symptoms are simple motor tics, most commonly facial muscle tics. Only a few patients have vocal tics as their first symptom.

As the disease progresses, the number of areas of twitching in the patient's body increases, including the shoulders, neck, limbs, and trunk. The twitching also changes from simple to complex, initially with only motor or vocal twitching, and then gradually develops into both. At first, the seizures occur intermittently, then gradually increase in frequency. About 30% of children with Tourette syndrome will exhibit coprolalia or obscene behavior. If the disease persists, it will have a great impact on the patient's physical and mental health.

What is childhood tics?

Childhood tics are also known as tics-coitus syndrome, which are characterized by short, rapid, sudden, involuntary movements of varying degrees. Tics begin with frequent blinking, squinting, frowning, sniffing, pursing, opening the mouth, sticking out the tongue, nodding, shaking the head, tossing the head, and tilting the head back. As the disease progresses, the symptoms of tics gradually become more diverse, with alternating appearances such as shrugging shoulders, twisting neck, kicking legs, shaking legs, twisting waist, twitching chest and abdominal muscles, shaking hands or shaking legs.

Limb twitching, etc.

3. How to treat tics in children

1. Let your child do what he is interested in and concentrate on it, such as playing the piano, watching cartoons, playing games, sleeping, etc. When the child is focused and relaxed, sleeping can significantly reduce the child's tics and may even make them disappear.

2. If you feel that the symptoms have seriously affected your life, you can undergo surgery, acupuncture and other treatments according to the symptoms. Surgery can effectively treat children's tics in a timely manner and can relieve and cure them as soon as possible.

3. A large part of the reason for children's tics is the lead content in their blood, so they should change the habit of biting pencils. Mental stress, anxiety, depression and excessive fatigue can also aggravate or relapse tics, so parents should pay more attention.