spitting tic

[kallik]

Does anyone's child have a spitting tic? What did you do to get the spitting tic under control? Like taurine helps vocal tics sometimes, is there something that would help this?

[PANDAS_Denmark]

Does anyone's child have a spitting tic? What did you do to get the spitting tic under control? Like taurine helps vocal tics sometimes, is there something that would help this?

 

Hi kallik -

Yes, 2 years ago my now 7years old PANDASson did have a spitting tic for a few month :-(.

Since then he has had this tic on and off - but only a few day at a time.

 

I don´t know how to treat this tic other than to treat it like all other tics ...

 

Best regards -

PANDAS_Denmark

[Chemar]

hi kallik

 

yes, spitting tics are a common one for people with TS and yes, there is no specific way to stop them other than to just maintain the healthy diet and the needed supps

 

my son carried tissues i his pocket and "released" the tic by spitting into them. He has always been pretty good at covering over the socially negative tics and finding ways to substitute them

 

whenever any of my son's tics increase, we also tend to up the epsom salts baths to help the calming. When he is in waxing mode, he has the tub, with chamomille tea, every night before bed.

 

as with most tics tho remember...this too shall pass.

[airbucket]

how ironic to see this post as my son had begun a spitting tic as of 2 days ago. I dont know about yours, but mine makes lots of spit and then sucks in it and out and then spits. What i did which did work was causally, like it was not a big deal, reminded him that it "we cant be spitting in public" and he understood this in the same way he understands when we teach basic manners, so he agreed to try and remember, and we helped remind him, to use a tissue cover his mouth when he does this or go to the bathroom when he needs to do it. Yesterday at the park he was doing it but realized that he didnt want to stop playing in order to visit the bathroom to spit, so he controlled it mostly the rest of the time at the park. Another thing that seems to always help is never making a big deal of it, and i still ignore most tics as commenting on them usually deosnt help, but in this case it helped to have a little plan to deal with it more appropriately. As always good luck.