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Hi How did you know which supplements to give and where do you purchase them all from? thanks Sarah

Caryn - has the gluten free diet stopped the tics occurring (is corn related to??). Our son also has the celiac gene. thanks Sarah

Hi All I have a 3 year old son, Matthew, who has some blinking tics for around six months and ADHD sometimes. There come and go (see below). I actually have been taking him to an 'advanced allergy elimination' kineasiology and they test you for food sensitivities/intolerances and then 'eliminate' them via an electric massage on your back while you hold a small glass tube of the allergic substance. We have had good success. (previously he would 'blink' when he ate corn, fish etc etc or was exposed to chlorine pools. Following the elimination of these intolerances he can now have them without the blinking, which is great. If you have not tried this you might want to as it really seemed to help us. He now only seems to blink when he is sick (PITANDAS perhaps??) I am also seeing a naturopath and have had heavy metal hair sampling carried out. It seems he is fairly toxic. She has advised a treatment to 'detox' the heavy metals out of his system including wearing 'footsies' to bed. Has anyone else had success with removal of heavy metals? *which apparently cause a variety of issues. Or has anyone else found a relationshiop between tics/heavy metal toxicity? thanks Sarah

What is IVIG?

Hi again I wanted to add I took my son, Matthew, to a Naturopath and Ped and he was tested and found the following: (a) Coeliac gene - so now oof gluten (and dairy and cane sugar) ( Low Zinc and Iron levels (does low Zinc cause tics????) © High toxicity so various (will be treated with some kind of foot pad to reduce toxins in the body) - can this have an affect on tics? thanks again Sarah

Hi Everyone Wow - what a useful site this is. I have a two year old who has recently (about three months ago) starting ticcing. He has has blinking almost every day and also some shoulder shrugging, neck jerking one day, OCD (shutting doors, switching off lights, shoes on all the time). He also holds his head to one side (like a wry neck) - is that a tick. The first tic we noticed was the blinking which started 2 days after going swiming for the first time. It was a continual blink. I wonder if that was due to exposure to chlorine. As you can imagine I have been worried sick and can not stop worrying about it. I have seen several doctors, some of who were not even aware of tics and one even suggested eye drops and a steroid to rub in his eyes. I saw a pediatrician and he said looked like eye blinking tic which may or may not go in time. I have hence done my own research and booked in to see a neurologist which I am seeing in 2 weeks time. I have started going to Allergy Elimination too whiuch is similar to NAET which I have seen mentioned here. The Allergies all seemed to start after three courses of anti-biotics and some redipred steriod med for croup. I know he had Penicillin which I am allergic too. When he was on the peniccillin he started reacting to food and he eyes swelled up and the tics started. I am finding the allergy elimination clinic (AAE) a great help as having been treated for corn and many other things he now seemed to be able to eat say corn without the eye blinking flaring up. He was doing quite well (which I thank the AAE and diet for - only blinking tic which was hardly noticable) until recently he has caught a viral infection. His temp sored to 103.5 F and he started the new tics such as shoulder shrugging, teeth grinding etc. Also the eye blinking has intestified. So it seems that the viral infection is a trigger. I guess I have a number of queries: (a) What are people's experiences with NAET - looking at the tic triggers it should be possible to eliminate most of them by being treated and 'cured' of the allergies ( Does anyone know of the statistics of tics lasting < 1 year vs > 1 year - I am hoping and hoping this will be a transient tic phase © Has anyone cured themselves of tics via NAET/Candida rid/other method (my naturopath is treating him as having Caandida) thanks for all you help Sarah