On September 6, the news that a 9-year-old girl was allergic to allergies as soon as she did math problems attracted the attention of many netizens. The child's mother said that her daughter would not be allergic to other homework, and would only be allergic if she did math problems.
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Coincidentally, a 13-year-old child in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, had a low-grade fever or stomachache as soon as he walked into the classroom, and was picked up by his mother to go home.
What happened to the child? On September 13, Duna, a national second-level psychotherapist at the Fourth People's Hospital of Chengdu, believed that children and adolescents are often not good at expressing emotions in words, so they will turn some negative emotions into physical symptoms. When anxiety, fear, etc. are reflected in children, discomfort in the digestive tract system is more common. If you do not intervene for a long time, it may evolve into depression.
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Boys have a fever as soon as they go to school and are fine as soon as they get home
Three or four months ago, 13-year-old Le Le (pseudonym) was hospitalized for half a month before being discharged from the hospital due to his serious illness due to a viral infection. However, his mum, Ms. Xu, found that her son had become a bit "strange" after being discharged from the hospital.
Specifically, just after sending Lele to school, the teacher sent a message saying that the child had a fever, and when Ms. Xu took her son home, the child's body temperature slowly receded. The same situation has passed two or three times, and every time Lele rests at home for a day or two and then goes to school, the fever will come as expected.
Originally, Ms. Xu felt that it was not that her son did not want to wear school clothes, but every time she carefully measured it with a thermometer, "about 38 degrees, although it is a low-grade fever, but there is indeed heat."
This strange thing lasted for half a month, and then the situation changed again. It turned out that Lele's symptoms changed from fever to stomachache: as soon as he went to school, his stomach hurt, and as soon as he came home, he was as good as no one else.
Because of the child's affairs, Ms. Xu took the child everywhere to seek medical treatment, and did examinations in the internal medicine department of several hospitals, and the results showed that Lele did not have any health problems.
Revelation:
The child's anxiety leads to a lot of strange things
As soon as I went to school, my stomach hurt, and this situation lasted for half a month and did not get better, which made Ms. Xu anxious. Finally, following the advice of relatives and friends, the family sent the child to the Fourth People's Hospital of Chengdu.
In the examination room, The National Second-Level Psychotherapist Duna met Lele. Duna recalled that this was a relatively introverted child, often asking a question before he simply answered, and most of the time in the whole process, it was the mother Ms. Xu who introduced her on her behalf.
According to Duna, Lele is actually in a very anxious state, and it is this anxiety that turns into a physical adverse reaction.
Where is the source of your child's anxiety? On the one hand, because Lele was at the top of the grades in elementary school, after rising to junior high school, he felt that it was not easy to maintain such excellent grades, and the burden of "good students" made him doubly stressed. On the other hand, the mother, Ms. Xu, is more strict with her son's discipline in normal times, such as who Lele can play with when he has no homework, who he can't play with, what projects to play, how to play... All have strict requirements.
"Children and adolescents are often not good at expressing emotions in words, so they will turn some negative emotions into physical symptoms." Over time, Lele appeared to be uncomfortable as soon as he went to school.
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Symptoms that translate into the digestive tract system are more common
Subsequently, Duna carried out psychotherapy for Lele, supplemented by anti-anxiety drugs for teenagers. Over the course of three months, the child received 6 times of psychotherapy. At the same time, Duna also educated Ms. Xu, and Ms. Xu's education style has also changed. On the eve of the start of school, Lele finally felt that he had the courage to go to school again.
Duna told Red Star News that in fact, it is more common for children's anxiety, fear and other negative emotions to be converted into symptoms of the digestive tract system, such as stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
There are exceptions, of course. Just like a few days ago, a 9-year-old girl in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, had an allergic eye as soon as she did a math problem, and there were small bumps around her eyes. The strange thing is that the child does other homework such as Chinese and English, and is fine, and there is nothing to do. Duna believes that in fact, this little girl, like Lele, sudden onset of illness is very much related to psychological reasons.
Doona here reminds parents that many times, the accumulation of negative emotions in children is something they cannot bear, so if there is an adverse reaction on the body that cannot be found out, it must be paid enough attention. If you do not intervene for a long time, the child's evaluation of himself is getting lower and lower, and the depressed mood consumes a lot of energy and may evolve into depression.
Red Star News reporter Dai Jiajia
Edited by Zhang Li
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