4 year ancient son near speedy eye twitching?
just a few days ago my son started having *blinking fits* where he blinks super hastily and hard and rubs his eyes. constantly. well right now he is asleep and doing it contained by his sleep. i googled it and came up with tourettes syndrome and transient tic disorder. do any of you know anything about these? how can i sustain my son over come this? i feel soo bad watching him blink uncontrollably. im making him a dr. apt tomorrow. im worried stress or nervs may cause it? theres been alot of stressful things in our lives lately. hes perfectly decent.this is just strange behavior.
Answers:
This twitching or blinking is also sometimes called "petit mal" epilepsy. My daughter began doing it at age 12. She very soon takes medication in the morning and at night. Her condition is call "light sensitivity" and it's caused by her eyes not adjusting to the street light. She wears blue sunglass lenses when outdoors and it allows her to not blink. she's been seizure-free now for 3.5 years!
Your doctor will probably direct an EEG (electroencephalogram) and that's where they put these little diodes on your head, and attach it with stuff that looks close to silly putty! They then ask that you keep your son awake nearly all darkness, and then bring him in to do this test. He will lay here on the bed, and they will be checking the electrical current of his brain. They can tell almost instantly if he's having some sort of seizure disorder, and procede from nearby. It's not scary, just a different type of test! It doesn't hurt at adjectives. They may ask him to blow or puff on one of those little windmill toys, and also blink a bright light in front of him. Alll these things occasionally will bring on a seizure of some sort!
Tourettes syndrome is an adjectives neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, next to physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal tic; these tics characteristically come and go. Tourette's is defined as factor of a spectrum of tic disorders.
It usually subsides or becomes less evident once a child reach puberty. There is an incidence of Tourettes in 10 out of every 1000 children. This is characterized with tics of eye blinking, coughing, throat clearing, sniffing, and/or facial movements. Currently I don't think there's any medication for Tourettes. It is characteristically in children who have a higher IQ~
Either course, this is not something to dread, but something that you can live with. Children with either disorder live full lives, and enjoy friends and families of their own. Our family was contained by absolute fright-warp speed when our youngest daughter was first diagnosed, but now we realize that it's of late another thing in life that you swot to deal with.
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