5.5 YO son ticcing again. Chemical reaction?

[szcasey]

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.

 

We've "managed" our 5 yo son's TS with a modified diet. We've eliminated foods he's allergic to (milk, eggs, wheat, soy, strawberries and apples), MSG and food dyes. He was tic free for over 3 months.

 

Chris began ticcing recently and I wonder if it's due to chemcials he's been exposed to at camp. He's attending camp at a local school and the carpets are being cleaned and walls are being painted. I provide his food/snacks and he's very good about his diet.

 

Additionally, he's very angry and moody. I really feel for him! He doesn't talk about his symptoms -- maybe he's too young to articulate/connect his anger w/ the symptoms.

 

Maybe the chemcials have nothing to do w/ the symptoms... maybe it's just the waxing and waning of TS.

 

Has anyone else experienced chemical reactions? Any suggestions for treatment? I could remove him from camp, but I'm sure he'll be exposed another time in the future...

 

I was so hopeful that we had a handle on his TS symptoms and really didn't want him to start kindergarten twitching and ticcing all over the place.

 

Thanks and best,

Sarah

[Chemar]

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) seems to be very common in kids with TS. We learned the hard way that chemicals are one of my son's biggest tic triggers and do our best to avoid all of them as much as possible.

 

we have some past threads here on paint fumes, carpet cleaners etc being BIG offenders

 

 

the chemicals at camp are most likely the trigger that has set this off

 

try doing 20 min Epsom salts bath (2 cups epsom salts dissolved in warm tub water) directly when he comes home from camp to see if that might help a bit. Also a saline nasal flush (recent thread has good tips on ones for kids) to clear chemical molecules from his nose

 

altho it is hard to totally avoid chemical exposure in this modern world, yet eliminating it as much as possible is truly the only way to stop this *major* tic trigger.

[ilovedogs]

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.

 

We've "managed" our 5 yo son's TS with a modified diet. We've eliminated foods he's allergic to (milk, eggs, wheat, soy, strawberries and apples), MSG and food dyes. He was tic free for over 3 months.

 

Chris began ticcing recently and I wonder if it's due to chemcials he's been exposed to at camp. He's attending camp at a local school and the carpets are being cleaned and walls are being painted. I provide his food/snacks and he's very good about his diet.

 

Additionally, he's very angry and moody. I really feel for him! He doesn't talk about his symptoms -- maybe he's too young to articulate/connect his anger w/ the symptoms.

 

Maybe the chemcials have nothing to do w/ the symptoms... maybe it's just the waxing and waning of TS.

 

Has anyone else experienced chemical reactions? Any suggestions for treatment? I could remove him from camp, but I'm sure he'll be exposed another time in the future...

 

I was so hopeful that we had a handle on his TS symptoms and really didn't want him to start kindergarten twitching and ticcing all over the place.

 

Thanks and best,

Sarah

 

Well, I know I have MCS (not my ticcing son but I don't rule it out). I get stomach pains and I have breathing trouble like asthma symptoms when I get around chemicals especially chlorine. It doesn't make me angry or moody. I definitely wouldn't rule out the chemicals in the new tics you're seeing though. I still haven't figured out why my son tics and what helps minimize them. After camp is over I hope you'll see an improvement and that will be your clue that it was the chemicals.

[Chemar]

I bumped up the MCS thread here for more info http://www.latitudes.org/forums/index.php?...amp;#entry24891