TOURETTE SYNDROME TREATMENT

Tourette syndrome is a condition where people have “TICS”.  Tics are sudden twitches, movements, or sounds that people do repeatedly.  People who have tics cannot stop their body from doing these things.

Having tics is a little bit like having hiccups. Even though you might not want to hiccup, your body does it anyway. Sometimes people can stop themselves from doing a certain tic for a while, but it’s hard. Eventually the person has to do the tic.

TYPES OF TICS:

Motor tics: Movement of the body, example: blinking, jerking an arm etc.

Vocal tics: sounds that a person makes with his or her voice, example; humming, hiccups etc.

Simple tics: involve just a few parts of the body. Examples of simple tics include squinting the eyes or sniffing.

Complex tics: involve several different parts of the body and can have a pattern. An example of a complex tic is bobbing the head while jerking an arm, and then jumping up.

SYMPTOMS:

The main symptoms of TS are tics. Symptoms usually begin when a child is 5 to 10 years of age. The first symptoms often are motor tics that occur in the head and neck area. Tics usually are worse during times that are stressful or exciting. They tend to improve when a person is calm or focused on an activity.

The types of tics and how often a person has tics changes a lot over time. Even though the symptoms might appear, disappear, and reappear, these conditions are considered chronic.

In most cases, tics decrease during adolescence and early adulthood, and sometimes disappear entirely. However, many people with Tourette Syndrome experience tics into adulthood and, in some cases, tics can become worse during adulthood.

TREATMENT: Psychological counselling with conservative treatment is very much effective. Homoeopathic treatment requires a deep constitutional analysis. The history of the disease, the family medical history, physical and mental characteristics of the patient, the likes and dislikes, medication details are all taken into consideration. This approach stands in consonance with the homoeopathic convention: Well selected Homoeopathic remedies are effective for Tourette syndrome.