Expert Profile: Han Fei, Chief Physician, Doctoral Supervisor, Director of pediatrics, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years and has accumulated rich clinical experience in the treatment of various common and difficult pediatric diseases.
Yam and yogurt are common daily foods, not only good taste, but also have many benefits for the body, many people like to eat, but children with tic disorders are not suitable for intake of these two things, parents should try to control.
Tic disorders, which include transient, chronic tic disorders, and Tourette's syndrome, are neuropsychiatric disorders that begin in childhood and adolescence and have a distinct genetic predisposition. There are many dietary contraindications in children with tic disorders, and the author believes that diet is also part of the treatment of children with tic disorders. Both traditional Chinese medicine and food can be used to prevent and treat diseases, and the bias of food is not as significant as that of drugs. Although food is weak, it must be eaten every day, and in addition to providing essential nutrients to human cells, it will also have an impact on the body's yin and yang balance and physiological function to a greater or lesser extent.
yam
Yam is one of the earliest plants eaten by humans, containing extremely rich nutrients and can be used medicinally and foodily. The Shennong Materia Medica says that yam "in the main wound, to make up for the weakness ... Long serve the eyes and ears smart". Recent studies have shown that yam can enhance the body's immune function, and its contained choline and lecithin and other components help to improve people's memory, regular consumption can strengthen the body, delay aging.
The biggest feature of yam is the presence of dopamine, an ingredient that occupies an important place in the therapeutic effects of yam. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, a chemical that helps cells transmit pulses, and it transmits the message of excitement and happiness, so in theory, increasing the intake of this substance can make people excited.
Many parents observe that children with tic disorders are mostly excited, why? At present, most scholars believe that there are neurotransmitter disorders such as dopamine in tic disorders, which occur with excessive release of dopamine or hypersensitivity of post-synaptic dopamine receptors. Increased dopamine will increase the excitability of the child, which can easily trigger the appearance of tic symptoms. Therefore, controlling the intake of dopamine helps to suppress the excitement, which in turn helps the recovery of the child with tics. Therefore, from this point of view, it is still necessary to avoid the consumption of yam in children as much as possible.
yoghurt
Yogurt is made of fresh milk fermentation, in addition to retaining the nutrients of fresh milk, lactic acid bacteria can also produce a variety of vitamins necessary for human nutrition during the fermentation process. However, yogurt is very easy to deteriorate, and because its taste is too sour, the production process needs to add sugar, honey or other condiments to correct the sourness, improve the taste; and in order to extend the shelf life of yogurt, most of them also add food preservatives. The above various additives and preservatives may increase the risk of aggravation in children, and are not recommended for children with tic disorders. In addition, studies have shown that after the intestinal flora is destroyed, taking probiotic-containing products such as yogurt does not significantly accelerate the recovery of the intestine.
In short, the author believes that the correct and reasonable selection of food can play a positive role in the adjuvant treatment of children with tic disorders. During the period of taking medicine, if you can focus on cultivating your child's good eating habits, and then cooperate with medication treatment, you can often achieve the effect of doubling the results with half the effort. Even if the child has stopped taking the drug, in the later life, parents should also promote the child to develop a good and healthy diet and living habits.
Source: China Traditional Chinese Medicine News