Nerve ticks in children may have other symptoms. Often they can be accompanied by changes in the behavior of the baby - restlessness, anxiety, hyperactivity. Ticks can also be of a vocal nature, when the child involuntarily sniffs, snorts, coughs, or repeats words. Children can not control ticks, so they do not need to make comments, pull back - this does not help, but it is quite possible to aggravate the situation. One should not even remind a child of this violation, the more often he thinks about this problem, the more he will twitch.
We will devote an article to the question of how to treat a child's nervous tic.
To begin with we will find out the reasons of occurrence of tics at children. It can be:
- Consequences of conjunctivitis with symptoms of photophobia and pain;
- after a runny nose, in this case the sniffing of the nose may remain;
- craniocerebral trauma;
- lack of magnesium;
- stress, anxiety, fright;
- heredity.
As we see, the reasons can be not only emotional, but also serious medical character, therefore it is necessary to struggle with tics at the child.
Treatment of a child's nervous tic
Treatment takes place in two directions - this is psychological and medicamental therapy.
In the first case parents are given such advice:
- organize for the kid the correct and constant regime of the day;
- avoid factors, situations that may contribute to the appearance of tics (perhaps, forbid watching TV, not walking in crowded places, etc.);
- attend a family psychotherapist;
- more to communicate with the child, give him the opportunity to talk about their problems;
- to show caring, love, to embrace and praise him more often;
- More time to devote to interesting games or activities that require maximum concentration.
Often thanks to psychological methods, tics disappear. But what if they did not help, and the child's nervous tic does not go away? In this case, the doctor decides in favor of drug treatment. Typically, first prescribe a mild sedative.
Getting rid of nervous tics in children is well helped by folk remedies:
- Compress of leaves of geranium. The crushed plant is applied for 15 minutes to the place where the tick appears.
- Decoction of leaves of plantain,
rue fragrant and anise seeds (3: 1: 1). The mixture is cooked on low heat for 10 minutes, cool, add honey. Take a drink for 2-4 tablespoons. - Decoction of chamomile, mint, lemon balm, valerian root (3: 2: 2: 1). Drink before going to bed 1 glass.
- Tincture of hawthorn. Take for half an hour before meals.
Thus, in the article we examined the symptoms and the main methods of treating the nervous tic in a child. If the treatment did not help, then do not let the problem go by itself. It may be necessary to have an additional examination, because tics can be a consequence of serious brain diseases.