Pediatrician Shi Shenghuan pointed out that it is clinically found that the beginning of school season is also a period when Tourette’s syndrome is prone to occur, and it is suspected to be a manifestation of adolescent stress syndrome. (Schematic / Photo by Feng Huiyi)
A girl from Junior One recently developed a cough, stuffy nose, blinked, shook her head, and shrugged her shoulders from time to time. Her mother thought it was a cold, and she went to the clinic to take medicine for more than a week without improvement. Later, the doctor diagnosed it as Tourette’s syndrome, and she recovered following taking the right medicine. ; Pediatrician Shi Shenghuan pointed out that the beginning of the school season is clinically found to be a period of Tourette’s syndrome, which is suspected to be a manifestation of adolescent stress syndrome.
Elementary and middle schools across Taiwan started school on the 13th. Recently, under the staggered epidemic of stomach flu, new coronary pneumonia and influenza, the number of patients in pediatrics, family medicine and otolaryngology has increased sharply. Pediatrician Shi Shenghuan found that a small number of Tourette’s patients had pseudo-cold symptoms performance, leading to long-term cure, this girl is one of them.
When the mother took the child to see a doctor, she said that her daughter had a constant cough, a strong nasal sound, and a cold for more than a week. She went to other clinics to take medicine and did not improve. However, when talking with the child, Shi Shenghuan found that the girl also blinked, shook her head, shrugged, and had a strange expression. Symptoms, diagnosed as Tourette’s syndrome, given nerve sedative drugs, and soon the symptoms were relieved.
Shi Shenghuan explained that research has found that the etiology of Tourette’s syndrome is related to the overreaction of brain dopamine receptors, and it has also been found clinically that environmental changes such as starting school, changing schools, moving, changing beds, and parental quarrels are the five major triggers of Tourette’s syndrome .
Shi Shenghuan pointed out that Tourette’s syndrome is more likely to occur in adolescents, with a prevalence rate of regarding 5 to 10%. The pathogenic mechanism is still unclear. Some studies have found that Tourette’s syndrome may be related to genetic and environmental factors; It is related to the overreaction of dopamine receptors in the nerve conduction, just like hitting a ball with too much force and bouncing the ball too high, which also causes the facial features and limbs affected by nerve conduction to twitch. In terms of treatment, through the guidance of the teacher, the patient’s mood has been relieved After the onset, the symptoms can be cured without medicine, or can be relieved with nerve sedative drugs.
