Tiki is involuntary movements, muscle contraction: blinking, twitching his shoulders, clenching lips, wince. This is one of the most common neurological diseases of childhood. It occurs in 20% children under the age of ten years.
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Risk factors
Every year the number of pupils affected by ticks, is growing. It is believed that this disease is hereditary. Japanese scientists have identified a gene that is responsible for the occurrence of nervous ticks. However, the inheritance passed to not tick, but only the predisposition to them. The trigger in this case can serve any aspect of the lifestyle: poor environment, stress, unbalanced diet, a passion for computers and TV shows, unfavorable atmosphere in the family, conflicts with peers. Sometimes the tics occur due to severe trauma, infectious disease or after emotional experiences: joy, sorrow, fear.
Ticks are most likely to occur in children aged from four to seven years. This is the time when the child moves away from her mother, begins to attend kindergarten or school. Most kids take these changes in your life quite easily. But there are guys for whom interacting with new people and changing the mode of the day become a huge stress. In the result, and there are Tiki reaction of the nervous system on internal discomfort.
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What it looks like
The ticks are so different that the layman it is difficult to understand that with a child.
Motor tics. The child often blinks, opens his mouth widely, snorts, shaking its head back or turn it to the side, tapping his fingers on the table or doing other uncontrolled movements.
Vocal or audible ticks. This may be the permanent mygenie nose or coughing in the background of full health, the repetition of the same words several times, and sometimes voyeurism - involuntary shouting foul language.
The ticks are divided into local, common and generalized.
Local it ticks that affect only one group of muscles, for example, only blinking. Common tics involve multiple muscle groups - the child often blinks, compresses her lips, pumping its shoulders. When it is coupled with a vocal phenomenon, neurologists ascertain the presence of generalized ticks.
Sometimes there is not a severe disease -
the syndrome of Gilles de La Tourette. This is an inherited disorder of the nervous system, manifested by a combination thecobrasnake twitching of muscles of face, neck and shoulder girdle, involuntary movements of the lips and tongue with frequent coughing, spitting and voyeurism.
Nervous Tiki, though painless, but quite unpleasant phenomenon. The most unpleasant thing in them that they can grow and migrate from one muscle group to another, from the local to become widespread and generalized. Moreover, in different periods of life ticks are manifested in different ways. In stressful situations, they are activated and become pronounced. Sometimes the ticks are so complex that exhaust the child - he becomes nervous, irritable, not sleeping.
There are cases where the tick, once having appeared, runs by itself. But most strange "movements" are stored in schoolchildren quite a long time, because a large teaching load, lack of sleep and communication with the computer not benefit the nervous system.
How to understand that it is time to go to the doctor? If you see that nervous tics interfere with the child to learn and make us ashamed of peers and teachers, to pull with a trip to the neurologist or the psychotherapist is not worth it.
Disease geniuses
Absolutely it would be wrong to assume that ticks somehow inhibit the human intellect. Often patients suffering from ticks, personality quite uncommon and even somewhat prominent poets and composers, sculptors and commanders. And, according to some experts, the deliverance of man from the tick may deprive it of its natural ability to write, to compose, to solve mathematical problems and problems of the universe and be something different from all the others. Perhaps this interesting version will receive confirmation in the future, when scientists finally discover the nature of ticks.
As for the past, then it is known that Tiki was accompanied by the life of Alexander the great, Peter the great, Napoleon, Michelangelo and many other geniuses.
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Treatment
Medicine has extensive experience in the treatment of nervous ticks. From simple soothing herbs to physiotherapy, massage and acupunc tours. However, to defeat the Tiki is not so easy, because even the nature of this unpleasant phenomenon scientists are not completely clear. Usually neurologists are treated with the most flexible methods of impact: physiotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic techniques. If the ticks are not and take the generalized form prescribed neuroleptics. If medication is chosen correctly, the effect is noticeable within a week.
Unfortunately, the favorable treatment outcome does not guarantee that in the future, the twitches will not appear again. In ticks, as with any chronic disease, there are periods of exacerbation and remission. The disease may not be evident for years, and then re-appear. In this case, you need to consult a neurologist or therapist.
There is a treatment method that is well suited to older students. The doctor conducts a training series, which teaches teen to control facial expressions and to suppress tics. However, such therapy is not a substitute for medical treatment and is not always effective. The child that I spent the whole day in voltage, willpower controlling muscle contractions, relaxes at home, and parents see the serial ticks. Therefore, as a rule, doctors prescribe patients a set of procedures. Perhaps your child will help electrosleep therapy, massage, mineral baths, or he just needs to respect the day with dosing loads and time to relax. To solve this can only be a specialist.
Let them run!
There is a theory that explains the twitches of the reaction of the child to the prohibitions and restrictions relating to its motor activity. This occurs most often when children are in first grade and are faced with the rigors of school then Yes. Earlier a child all day could run and play, and now forced to sit quietly at a Desk. Not surprisingly, the muscles of the face, hands and legs involuntarily begin to decline. And if added here to nervous stress, Tiki become chronic. Try at least a weekend to organize health days in the fresh air for the whole family: a run in the Park, ride bikes, play active games.
Tips for parents
- Not corner! When parents first notice the ticks of the child, they begin to ask him questions: "What have you got that? Why do you ever blink? " Children begin to look for rims creation of their state, and even more nervous. Do not focus on the attention of the entire family, and go to the doctor.
- Do not make the scandals in the school. Children today are very cruel. Noticing that their peers "something wrong", they will probably tease him. It is difficult for parents to influence the situation, especially since the showdown with child offenders will glow only environment. The best you can do - time to take your child to the doctor, which will help to cope with ticks.
- Do not reproach myself for illness of the child. Usually parents, faced with the problem of children's ticks, I feel very guilty, "I didn't pay attention to him. I bought him a book, he asked for". Not worth yourself to blame. If students are prone to ticks, sooner or later they would still appear.
- Change your way of life. Ask yourself questions: do we eat, is all well in the relationship between our family members? Avoid stress. Join a sports club for the whole family. The child will be especially useful for swimming and skiing. These sports strengthen the nervous system and improve mood. Try to reduce the time of communication of children with a TV and a computer to a minimum.
Sometimes the treatment of ticks is delayed. Be patient. Support the child, and the result will not take long.
Author:
Halesova A.
Source:
The health of the schoolchild
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