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Facial tics

Frazzledredhead

Hi, this is my first community post so hope appropriate for here. My 10 yr old was formally diagnosed last month with high functioning asd but in everything we have read is classic aspergers. That's not a surprise we've known for a while but being going through the nhs process.

heres my concern right now, he's always had facial tics, innocuous things like excessive blinking or licking lips repetitively but now it's moved up a level to a movement where his eyes roll right back at the same time as a type of facial contortion. He has sight issues already - squint, lazy eye, short sighted,etc. Tics have come and gone but this one worries me due to the frequency and severity of the eye rolling - it's at least once or twice a minute right now And all day long, he has said it stops him sleeping (sleeping is hard already so not sure).

dO we leave it and let it run it's course like the others, or seek help? If so who- gp, optician, pediatrician, comms clinician?  It's causing friction at home as I don't want to draw attention to it but my husband and I are worried of the effects long terms on His eyes. 

Any advice appreciated.

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    Here is a link to a factsheet on tics in children from the NHS's "Eastern-paediatric-epilepsy-network" whatever that is...

    www.networks.nhs.uk/.../view

    The factsheet cautions against medication if possible but I suspect that in this case his distress may be too much to cope with without something to settle it. I would let his GP look at him sooner rather than later. The factsheet suggests that these things are not normally something to get too alarmed about but we haven't seen how bad it is for him.

    I would support some of the other thoughts about making sure that his diet is properly balanced and that electrolyte and fluid levels are all OK. I'm not suggesting in any way that this can be fixed with diet but it may help in some way to reduce his stress or to balance the complex biochemistry that causes things like this.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Here is a link to a factsheet on tics in children from the NHS's "Eastern-paediatric-epilepsy-network" whatever that is...

    www.networks.nhs.uk/.../view

    The factsheet cautions against medication if possible but I suspect that in this case his distress may be too much to cope with without something to settle it. I would let his GP look at him sooner rather than later. The factsheet suggests that these things are not normally something to get too alarmed about but we haven't seen how bad it is for him.

    I would support some of the other thoughts about making sure that his diet is properly balanced and that electrolyte and fluid levels are all OK. I'm not suggesting in any way that this can be fixed with diet but it may help in some way to reduce his stress or to balance the complex biochemistry that causes things like this.

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