Nervous tic - involuntary, often repeated sharp contraction of muscles or contractions of a certain group of muscles. The most common is the nervous tic of the eye in an adult. Also, this disease can appear as a pronunciation of strange sounds - nervous disorders of speech.
Nerve tics have no specific age limits. We can say that the nervous tic in a child occurs ten times more often than in an adult. A person himself may not realize that he is doing something wrong.
Especially it concerns the nervous tic on the face. Sometimes a fit of a nervous tic can be anticipated, but it succeeds to those who have had it more than once. This is because the person already knows this feeling and its beginning. In a period of calm or sleep, a nervous tic almost never occurs.
Causes of a nervous tic
Nervous tics can be primary - an independent disorder of the nervous system, as well as secondary ones that appear after complex injuries or surgeries. There are also some hereditary neural tics that are transmitted from father to child or from mother to child.
Why is a nervous tic?
- Psychoemotional trauma is acute and chronic.
- Severe childhood trauma or already in adulthood.
- Disturbance of the metabolism of the brain.
- Various severe diseases, transferred earlier.
- Viral infections of a long-lasting nature.
- Chronic tonsillitis in childhood.
- Tourette's syndrome.
If the nervous tic was caused by symptoms of other diseases, for example, viral, then the treatment should be directed directly to the source of the spread. In such cases, the general therapy, which begins with the receipt of antiviral drugs. With a nervous tic of the eyes, drugs of neurotoxic action are prescribed. Such substances cause a blockade of nerve impulses, so the body's response to those or other pathogens will be completely different. For this, a special injection of Botox is often used.
Symptoms of a nervous tic
Manifestation of a nervous tic can not occur immediately, and even more so in a child. Even the patient himself can not accurately determine his strange movements. Most often this is noticeably more from the outside. The nervous tic is manifested during severe fatigue, with increased sensitivity. In a period of calm and relaxation, it is very difficult to notice wrong behavior.
The nervous tic of the face, as well as the nervous tic of the eye, does not lead to a decrease in intelligence, the work of the nervous system. We can say that it is practically safe. It is only quite visible from the outside. This disease affects only the psychoemotional state of a person. Children are the most sensitive to the disease. Therefore, their nervous system can be just as threatened as the general psycho-emotional state. Usually the nervous tic is amplified in noisy places and with a large crowd of people.
How to deal with a nervous tic?
There is no special treatment for nerve tics. For example, such a disease in a child goes with the normalization of the psychoemotional situation. This is primarily an environment - a family, a kindergarten or a school. The child's nervous tic is mainly manifested during
If the cases that have gone deeper, as in adults this often happens, then special psychotherapy is required. It will be useful to consult a psychotherapist, which is recommended directly with an individual approach. Most often prescribed taking sedatives, as well as various medicines of plant origin.
Take a variety of potent drugs with a nerve tic is strictly prohibited, especially in regular form. Such strong substances can cause side effects, so treatment can be redirected in another form. And this is a kind of complication.