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A Child with Tics Helped with Homeopathy

10/7/2017

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Homeopathy and tics in children

IN BRIEF

A four-year-old boy with tics, pronounced incurable by a neurologist, is helped with a homeopathic remedy for frights. The tics may have been connected to several frights his mother had while pregnant.  
By Anke Zimmermann, BSc, FCAH

Shudders and Tics

I first met Liam, a sweet two-and-a-half year-old boy, in October of 2009. About six months earlier he started having trembling episodes during the night. By September he had developed tics, various involuntary body movements and shudders during the day and often more severe episodes during the night. He  would complain about being uncomfortable and unable to sleep. His mother thought these symptoms came on after a virus. She started to give him magnesium which helped somewhat.

He was seen by both a pediatrician and a neurologist who ran an EEG in August, which came back normal. The neurologist told the family that the tic was genetic and there was nothing they could do about it.

Trembling with Fear

Liam's mother has noticed that his tics are worse when he is excited or nervous. For example when his preschool class went to visit the fire hall he had a lot of trembling and body shakes. The same thing happened when the family went to see a marathon event. In general he will tremble when anxious and wants to be held.

Even before the onset of this syndrome he had sleep twitches. He woke frequently as a baby, five to six times a night. After he turned one he started to wake 12 times a night. He gets hot after falling asleep. As a baby he would wake up crying with a red hot face. Sometimes his ears get red after falling asleep. He often laughs in his sleep.

Sometimes an affected muscle will be throbbing, as if there is a heart beat in it. He may also grimace and stick out his tongue involuntarily.


​He wheezes a bit if he runs around fast outside in the cold.

His mother describes Liam as a good-natured boy without tantrums or misbehaviour. He was very comfortable in my office from the beginning and enjoyed exploring the toys and playing ball with me.

Mother's History during Pregnancy

In cases like this it is important to not only look carefully at the child's health history but also the mother's history during pregnancy.

"I had a stressful pregnancy. I was involved in a minor car accident, but I was unfairly blamed and this led to a lengthy legal issue. At the same time we were moving house."

"As if that was not stressful enough, at the six month ultrasound appointment the baby's kidneys were shown to be 5 mm above normal in size, which also caused stress and anxiety. Towards the end of the pregnancy they showed normal size fortunately."

"And when I was eight months pregnant I was walking the family dog around a lake and my dog ended up chasing a bear while out in the woods. I freaked out and had a little asthma attack. I had asthma as a child."

​Liam had a fast heart beat which and noticeable hiccoughs in the womb which was cause for some concern for the midwives. 
 

Plan

I selected Agaricus, 6 CH, 2 pellets twice a day. Agaricus, a homeoapthic preparation of fly agaric, a mushroom, is one of the top homeopathic remedies often used is someone suffers from twitches and tic as well as involuntary movements, also known as chorea.
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The day after starting the remedy Liam woke up from a nap and started shouting at the mother and telling her loudly about his father and cousin. Then he started whispering and moving very quickly and then he wanted to be held. The next day he was a bit naughty and teased the dog which was unusual. He was talking a lot and overall was much more expressive.

Follow-up December of 2009

​Overall there is some improvement with the frequency and intensity of the tics. Then I learned that the mother vomited and choked and went into a full panic after overeating at a wedding when she was six months pregnant! Another shock! 

I again selected Agaricus, 200 CH at the time, in retrospect not quite correctly. 

Four weeks later his nights are better overall but he will still grasp onto his mother. He is also more clingy than before. That did not sound quite right.

Then his mother give me a great clue: Liam's tics and twitches are always worse after he has been out on a windy day. Aha!

I decided to change the remedy after reconsidering all the shocks and stresses the mother had during the pregnancy as well as Liam's reactions to wind and his trembling with fear and chose Aconitum napellus, 30CH, a homeopathic remedy made from Monkshood. 

Relief with Aconite

Aconitum napellus, a common homeopathic remedy for shocks
Liam took infrequent, increasingly higher potency doses of Aconite for the next 18 months and his tics and twitches improved by about 85% during that time.

Whenever he received a dose of the remedy he had a slight initial aggravation with a worsening of the tics, then a lasting improvement. He ultimately recovered completely by age 4, much to family's delight and mine!

Aconite is a well-known remedy for all kinds of frights and shocks in homeopathy. It is also often indicated if a condition comes on after exposure to wind. Liam's tics were worse after wind and he was trembling with anxiety.

Anytime that a violent or frightening event occurs, including being in an accident or even seeing one, being in an earthquake, being frightened by an animal or similar, a homeopath thinks of aconite.

It can release a shock or fright which has been held in the body for decades, or which may have even been passed on during pregnancy as likely happened in this situation. Isn't it marvellous that homeopathy has something to offer in such cases? 

Anke Zimmermann, BSc, FCAH, Homeopath in Sooke, BC

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Marika Danielle Cherfas
4/18/2018 08:00:16 pm

Thank You very much

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