Source| Changsha Political Science and Law Channel
Xiao Tang (pseudonym), an 11-year-old boy in Changsha, Hunan Province, has been shouting that his calf is in excruciating pain for nearly a month. At first, the parents did not care, thinking that it was only caused by "calcium deficiency", so they gave the child a little calcium tablets. Unexpectedly, the symptoms not only did not improve, but also became more and more serious, and even chest pain, upper arm pain and other situations. Parents quickly took their children to seek medical examinations, but went to many hospitals and did a number of physical examinations, but no clear cause was found. Finally, the parents took Xiao Tang to the difficult comprehensive ward of Hunan Children's Hospital.
▲ The child said to himself: "The leg hurts so much that I can't stand it!" ”
"When I was admitted to the hospital, the first feeling was that it was more painful, I went to check the body, asked him, there was obvious pain in the two calves, it had been painful for nearly a month, to touch his calves, he was very resistant, but it was paroxysmal, and sometimes he cried out in pain." Liang Lijuan, a physician in the difficult comprehensive ward of Hunan Children's Hospital, said that after admission, the doctor carefully conducted a comprehensive physical examination for the child, showing that the child did not have obvious organic abnormalities.
Eventually, the multidisciplinary expert association made several diagnoses and comprehensively analyzed the child's main cause of myositis, but not to this extent, the cause of the unbearable pain is likely to be psychogenic pain.
"We do both, do the test and use placebo therapy, what is placebo therapy? We would give him some salt water and some vitamin C, and after doing so, he thought it was medicine, and it really worked. Liang Lijuan said.
Subsequently, after full communication with his parents, the doctor learned that Xiao Tang's parents have been working outside for many years, and in the process of growing up, they may be because of the lack of parental attention and care, and psychologically hope to attract the attention of their parents in this way.
According to the doctor, the occurrence of this disease is easy to be related to my personality and family environment factors, grievances, tension, bad psychological cues, etc. can lead to seizures, the body and brain during the attack do not have organic changes, and the symptoms cannot be explained by physical diseases, but the changes are rapid, dramatic, exaggerated and performative.
"Before the onset of the disease, his father did corporal punishment on him, which may lead to his resistance to parents, and then win the attention and sympathy of parents, and the child can not play mobile phones at school, after hospitalization, mobile phones do not leave the body for 24 hours, what they want to eat, parents are very compliant, this is also the scope of our consideration." Liang Lijuan said.
Doctors said that clinical similar to psychogenic pain and discomfort is not uncommon, most common in left-behind children, divorced families, etc., generally close to adolescence or so of children. Doctors suggest that parents pay more attention to their children's mental health, communicate more, and do not blindly criticize or connive at their children.