What to do if the child's muscle jerks

What if the muscle twitches if there is a nervous tic? Recently, the issue is becoming particularly popular. Many children and adults face this phenomenon.
Nervous tic is a disease that is neurological in nature and occupies a leading place among such disorders. Most often, children under the age of 10 are confronted with a deviation. Transient transient nervous tics occur in 30% of children. According to statistics, boys are about five times more likely to suffer from a disease than girls.
Many parents are greatly frightened by the phenomenon when the muscle is twitching on the leg or elsewhere. To determine the methods of combating the disease, it is necessary to know what causes the deviation. Doctors define nervous tics, like involuntary repeated movements or sounds. For example, if the muscle jerks or tenses on the cheek, if the lips are compressed. Voice ticks are also possible, consisting of rhythmic screaming, snuffling, coughing, noisy sobbing or sighing.
Any tics can be divided into motor or motor, when there are spasmodic movements of different muscle groups, and vocal, which manifest themselves above described symptoms in addition to the will of the child.
In addition to this classification, tics can be divided into simple and complex in nature. Simple forms include deviations occurring with one musculature group, for example, the muscle on the arm twitches. In this case, the tick can be expressed not only in the simple twitching of the eyebrow or cheek, but also be associated with involuntary crouching or bouncing. The illness can be temporary, passing character and last no more than a year. And in the case of a recurrence of the disease for a long time, doctors are talking about the chronic form of a nervous tic.
To smooth out the symptoms of the disease or completely get rid of the anomaly, parents should adhere to the following rules.
First, do not get hung up and focus on this issue. Do not need to remind the child about the disease in any way. It is proved, the more often it is mentioned that the muscle twitches, in the presence of the baby, the more frequent the bright and pronounced character is the seizures.
You can not put pressure on a child. A big mistake are requests and even orders to stop obsessive actions. For example, do not jerk, do not drink, do not blink. Such a method will not only not have an effect, but will exacerbate these phenomena.
At the first signs, you should consult a doctor. Many do not, considering tick a bad habit, and not an independent disease. To this conclusion, parents come to see that by effort of will the child is able to hold back a tick for a while. As a result, help comes when the disease enters a neglected stage.

For the child should create a comfortable psychological environment. Of course, do not go on about and indulge all the vagaries of the baby. But a favorable microclimate must be created. It is impossible to discuss serious problems with a child, to respond negatively about his friends and find out a relationship with each other even in a calm tone.
To reduce psychoemotional stress and reduce the burden on the eyesight, it is necessary to limit the work at the computer and watching TV. The regime of the day should be organized in such a way that the child spends more time not in a stuffy room, but in the fresh air.
Treatment of nerve tics
Most often, if the muscle twitches with a nervous tic, treatment is not required. Parents need only follow the above recommendations and rules. The correct mode and the surrounding microclimate help to remove the problem.
In difficult cases, medication is required. Taking medication is prescribed taking into account the individual characteristics of the child, his weight, height, and course of the disease. With neglected forms, serious treatment will be required.