Today I have time and want to write about my son's tics in recent years. I have always advocated natural medicine and believed that the human body has a strong self-healing function, so when my son was young, he got sick and cold, and later had tic symptoms, I almost didn't use medicine, and Tuina was the method I used the most. Seeing that many mothers are heartbroken by their children's various tic symptoms, I want to share some of my treatment experience with you, hoping to play a little role.
My son's first symptoms of tics were probably when he was about 3 years old, and I remember that it was the spring shortly after the child was transferred to a public kindergarten (because I had to go to work and there was no one at home, so when my son was two and a half years old, I sent him to a private kindergarten in the community). Because there are many children in a class of public kindergartens, who catch colds and coughs every day, and are not old and young, so in the past few years of kindergarten, my son basically catches a cold every month. As soon as this spring began, it was another trick. After resting for about a week, even Tuina took a lot of water, and finally it was almost good, so basically I didn't continue to deal with it for the last few days of the week, but after the baby didn't cough, didn't have a runny nose or a fever, I found that there were actually sequelae, that is, constantly clearing the throat, that frequency, listening to people want to go crazy, really. (I clearly remember that Wa's father took us to dinner, because he couldn't stand the baby's constant throat clearing, and he went out first before we finished eating.) He said he couldn't stand the sound of the child clearing his throat all the time), I can remember him for the rest of my life!
At that time, I was stupid, and I didn't know what it was called tics, and I didn't know how to treat it, so I thought it was a bad problem that the child didn't know where to learn, so I used the simplest and roughest method, just at the beginning I gave the baby more water, and I felt that drinking for a few days seemed to be less powerful, so I looked at the baby, as long as it came out, I hit it with my small mouth, although it was a little rough, but don't say, after a few days, the problem of the baby clearing the throat was really over. It really made me feel as if I had overcome a challenge and finally relaxed. The symptoms of clearing my throat for the first time were easily cured within a week. But the seizure is not so easy.
After a year or so, during this period, in kindergarten, I still catch a cold due to cross-infection, but there is no problem clearing my throat again.
In fact, I can't say that there are no twists and turns, every time the baby gets sick, I have to peel off the skin. Yesterday I said that I advocate natural medicine and hope to fight diseases by stimulating children's own immunity. Therefore, when the child is sick with a cold, I rarely take him to the hospital for injections and medicines, even if I go to the hospital, I just do an examination, understand the condition, and try not to give him injections and medicine. (I can't say I'm against modern medicine, but I'm quite resistant to injections.) Maybe it has something to do with my experience as a child. I usually give the child about several times a day to Tuina, if the baby does not have a fever, it will be easier, the baby has a fever, then the frequency of pushing is more, some people may say, how good it is to take the baby to the clinic Tuina. Yes, I also took the baby to push outside, but if I push it outside for about an hour, it will be a hundred dollars smaller, and if I want to push my child several times a day, it will be hundreds of dollars larger. And as soon as the baby gets sick, it is impossible to push it for only one day, and if the baby has a cold, it will cost hundreds or thousands if it is only massaged. I really couldn't bear it, so I simply bought Tuina books, looked for videos on the Internet, and learned to do Tuina for my baby. The advantage of this is that as long as I can push, twenty-four hours a day, I can give the baby a massage, except for a little mother, there is no other problem. But sacrificing me, changing the baby's health, and saving some money for Tuina, I think it's worth it.
In fact, it is the problem of taking medicine and injections. My dad and I actually have differences. His father's proposition is that when the baby is sick, he should quickly take medicine and injections, so that the baby gets better quickly, simple and rude, I think differently from him, I never think this is the best way. Taking medicine and injections, no matter how expensive, special drugs have side effects. When I was a child, whenever I got sick, my mother would take me to the clinic for injections, give birth to a cold, not take a hanging bottle for a week, no better, not counting medicine. After hitting the hanging bottle, even going to the toilet is a smell of hanging bottle. It's because I'm too dependent on drugs, and from as long as I can remember until I was about 12 years old, I basically had a cold once a month. This creates a vicious circle, a cold comes down, others pass in a few days, and I can't get better without injections. I think my mother was also in a lot of pain at that time, when the news was closed, and my mother and my father could not think of any better treatment other than taking medicine and injections. I understand how they felt at the time. I tried clinics large and small in the city, remedies that can cure colds. So when I was a child, I was ruled by my family that I couldn't eat too salty and too sweet. During the New Year and festivals, the dishes I eat are all soaked with water. Other kids eat candy cubes, and I can only roll sugar paper. At school, my mother asked the teacher not to let me go to physical education class, because I was afraid that I would exercise a lot, I would cough tired, because when I coughed, I had a fever, and when I had a fever, I had to go to the hospital for injections and medicine. So my family has always stressed to me that I am sick, and I have always thought so, I am different from others and my health is not good. It wasn't until I was in my twenties, chatting with my friends, that I knew, oh, it turns out that when I was a child, there would be such a stage when my resistance was low, easy to catch a cold, fever and bad throat, I was actually a healthy person, except for low resistance, there was no other problem. Probably when I was eleven or twelve, I understood things, and I really had enough medicine and injections. I really couldn't eat the bitter soup and bitter pills, so I secretly poured the medicine soup behind my mother's back. When the pills were at my grandmother's house, I threw them under my grandmother's bed, and in my own house I opened the window and threw it out the window. After doing this a few times, I found that without taking medicine, the cold slowly and slowly improved. Since then, I have had an impression in my head that if I have a cold, even if I don't take medicine, I can get better a little bit of myself. When I grew up, I learned that colds were self-limiting diseases. That's why I'm so resistant to taking medicine and injections. I don't want my son to be the same as when I was a child, who took injections and medicine when he was sick, and finally had no resistance to his body, and he couldn't withstand the slightest wind and grass. So I can only find another way, not only for the disease, but through other methods to improve the child's own immunity, so that the child's body can slowly recover from the cold through self-regulation. So in fact, every time the baby gets sick and catches a cold, I am under a lot of pressure, on the one hand, the anxiety brought to me by the child's illness, on the other hand, the baby's father does not understand, he has not experienced my childhood, and there is no way to understand my current behavior. What he wants is for the child to get sick and get better quickly, no matter what method is used. What I want is that the child can adjust slowly, little by little, to achieve less illness, not to get sick.
It's about 18 years, it's spring again, and the baby has a cold again. As usual, I didn't take medicine, drink more water, and my nourishment slowly recovered. But after recovering, I started to clear my throat again as before, and this time the frequency was not as high as the first time, and I didn't pay much attention to it, because at that time I didn't think about the tics, I thought it was a bad problem with the child, and the board was fine, and with the experience of the last time, I thought that I could also board it this time. After that, I stared at the baby every day, and as soon as I cleared my throat, I criticized him, and when I was bored, I heard a beating. But the baby's whisping did not decrease at all. It lasted like this for more than two weeks, not good at all, the whole family heard the baby's voice, the heart was blocked to the throat, the atmosphere was once quite tense, although the frequency of the baby is not high, but the sound is very loud, I am worried that the kindergarten teacher will criticize him because he always clears his throat and delays other children to listen to the class, because the sound is too loud. The baby's father began to talk to me anxiously, thinking that the baby became like this because I didn't give the child medicine left by the sequelae. At this time, I learned on the Internet that it turned out that the baby was not a bad problem at all, but a manifestation of tics. In fact, I also asked my son, do you know when you clear your throat? The child says he knows, but he just can't control it. I checked some information, most Western medicine said that it is a mental disorder, boys will be more likely than girls, some say that it is caused by calcium deficiency and vitamin D, some say don't care, about 12 years old slowly getting better, some say there is a certain self-healing, did not heal when you were young, it will not be good when you are older. Let's be honest. I'm a little confused, and I don't know what to do, the little boys who play well with their sons around me, there are also a few symptoms of blinking their eyes and clearing their throats and nodding, mothers are also as anxious as me, some go to the hospital to prescribe a lot of medicines, mainly nutritional nerves, as well as vitamin B and other nutritional drugs, there is no actual therapeutic effect, and I see that these children have taken these drugs, and there is no effect. So I began to check again to see if there was an explanation for tics in Chinese medicine. The proposition of Chinese medicine is that tics is that children now eat something that is overnourished and eats too fine, and the function of the spleen and stomach is weak, resulting in the body can not fully digest and utilize these nutrients, which produces heat in the body, which in turn causes internal movement of the liver wind, so the child has the manifestation of tics. I am still more convinced of the statement of Chinese medicine, at least it is reasonable, understand what is going on, my heart has a spectrum, these years the baby has a cold and illness, in order to let him take less medicine, I have also learned a lot of Chinese medicine knowledge, as well as basic Tuina what. So I started looking for Tuina treatment of tic articles, videos, and I didn't work less.
I rub the board door for the child every day, replenish the spleen and clear the stomach, clean the stomach, clean the sky, clear the river, clear the lungs and clear the liver, and push the soles of the feet from the spring point to the toes, because the child often infects the cold in kindergarten, pinches the spine 20 times, and rubs the feet for three miles. Every day the time is tight, come once in the morning and evening, three times a day if I am not nervous, I wait for the child to sleep every day, or push these acupuncture points for him when he is not awake in the morning, sometimes I am afraid that he will cry, so I will push while playing cartoons. The duration of each acupressure point is calculated according to the age of the child, adding one minute for each additional year, and the pressure should also be added. After a massage, it was basically almost an hour. After about two days, I obviously felt that the frequency of the child's throat clearing slowed down, not constantly clearing the throat, coughing can be three or five minutes apart before the second sound. Seeing hope, very happy, but not good slack, continue to do massage three times a day, go to kindergarten, just twice a day, about a week, the symptoms all disappeared. This is the most gratifying thing for me, and the big stone in my heart has landed. And my child didn't take medicine. In this way, my baby is eight years old this year, from the first attack, to now, as long as there are symptoms, I will do Tuina as soon as possible, and it will heal soon. I summarized it myself, my son's symptoms are generally after the cold has healed, so I still have to pay more attention to try not to let the child catch a cold. Because a cold can cause an outbreak of tic symptoms.
After struggling with my son's tic in the past few years, I have slowly summed up some experience. I used to always check this information on the Internet, and I saw that many experts said that when children have tic symptoms, they should pay more attention to rest, and I also did so, trying to let the child stay at home and reduce activities, but I also found that doing so did not seem to have any effect. My son likes sports very much, and when I was in the first grade, I enrolled him in a taekwondo class, maybe the coach saw that his physical strength was good and he had some perseverance, so he was stuffed into the strengthening class. The amount of exercise, basically the clothes are soaked with sweat after a class. But don't say it, just insist on practicing every day for an hour and a half, that's just a week, the sound of the button of the child's throat clearing has really disappeared. Every time the child has a cold, there will be a long time to clear the throat button, I also try my best to give him Tuina every time, but because the child has to go to school, I can't follow him all day to help him Tuina, so every time after school, every time there is a throat clearing, it takes a long time to be good. If you add proper exercise, it feels like a tiger with wings, it will make the child's symptoms disappear quickly, I don't know if all children have an effect, but for my son, exercise really has a catalytic effect. If the child at home has gone to school, there will still be symptoms of tics, you may wish to take the child to exercise more, maybe there will be unexpected effects.