Can mild tics in children heal themselves?

The incidence of tics is relatively high, and the impact on children cannot be ignored. Of course, some parents believe that mild tics can heal on their own. In fact, it is unlikely that a child's tics will heal on their own. If left unchecked, they may even develop into severe tics. Below, we will bring you some relevant knowledge about childhood tics!

1. What is tics in children?

There are many reasons for habitual tics. Some of them start with discomfort in certain parts of the body, which leads to fixed protective or habitual movements. For example, blinking may be caused by conjunctivitis or foreign objects in the eyes; frowning or wrinkling the forehead may be caused by wearing a hat that is too small or glasses frames that do not fit well; shaking the head or twisting the neck may be caused by a collar that is too tight. After the above reasons are eliminated, although the action itself has lost its rationality, due to the formation of inert excitation focus in the cerebral cortex, tic movements can occur repeatedly. In addition, imitating other people's similar actions, psychological stimulation and physical diseases can also induce this disease. Common psychological triggers include:

1. Being frightened, such as being suddenly attacked by a dog, being almost run over by a car while crossing the road, etc.

2. Chronic anxiety and unhappiness, such as discord between parents, long-term illness of parents, the mother giving birth to another child, which distracts the love for the sick child, etc. Common physical factors include: acute tonsillitis, upper respiratory tract infection, and other acute diseases.

3. Severe colds can also induce tics.

2. Can tics heal themselves?

Tourette syndrome tends to heal itself, but the healing rate is extremely low, only about 5%. For most Tourette syndrome patients, symptoms become more severe as the disease progresses, and the longer the course of the disease, the more difficult it is to treat.

Since tics usually occur in childhood, according to clinical conditions, they mostly occur between the ages of 6 and 12. If not treated, it usually takes about 10 years to heal itself after adolescence and adulthood. During these long 10 years, tics not only affect children's academic performance, causing a decline in academic performance and affecting their further education and employment, but also often cause psychological harm to the children. Children are easily rejected, alienated, ridiculed and despised by people around them, which leads to unhealthy psychological conditions such as inferiority, anxiety, and depression. Severe patients may engage in self-harm, or be hostile to others, and engage in retaliatory and illegal behavior, which is extremely detrimental to their future life development.

If tics cannot heal themselves in adulthood, treatment will often take more time and money due to the long course of the disease, which will cause multi-faceted harm to the children and their families. So I suggest you take your child to a specialist hospital for treatment in time.

3. The harm of tics in children

1. Inattention: Tourette syndrome often causes children to lose focus and be unable to study seriously, resulting in a decline in their academic performance. In addition, children with inattention are prone to accidents, so they need constant care from their parents.

2. Children with Tourette syndrome have a small social circle: Children with Tourette syndrome are usually laughed at by other children of the same age because of some of their actions or sounds, so most of them have inferiority complex, timidity, and lack of self-confidence. It seriously affects the child’s social circle, greatly narrows it, and is not conducive to the child’s future development.

3. The symptoms of tics are different from those of ordinary people: Therefore, children with tics are often laughed at and ridiculed by their peers, causing them to live in extreme inferiority, become withdrawn and autistic, or have a bad temper, develop psychological disorders, and form an unhealthy personality. Some children will develop secondary mental illnesses, some will fight, develop a revengeful and vengeful mentality towards society, and fall into the abyss of crime.

4. Worsening of the condition: If tics are not treated promptly, they will gradually evolve from less obvious symptoms into more serious manifestations. For example, kicking, swinging hands, etc., actions that may cause harm to others.