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Facial spasm.
DEFINITION
A tic or facial spasm is a movement rapid and spasmodic that it affects to the muscles of the face and the eyelids. The most frequent tics affect to the eyelids, I squint, movements of the nose or of the lips, throat-clearing, etc...
A more serious variant and that lasts the whole life is the syndrome of Gilles de la Tourette, who in addition to motive tics collaborates to the emission in sprouts of offensive words, and who can last the whole life.
CASUSAS OF THE SPASM
The cause of the tics or facial spasms is not known, but it looks like more a topic psychological that organic. They appear in the first years of life and more often in children that in girls, but with the years they are disappearing almost in the totality of the cases. In enough cases it is a transitory topic that can last only weeks or months.
SYMPTOMS
The tics or spasms are muscular and repetitive rapid movements that they can affect to:
- Eyelids
- Deviation of the eyes
- Movements of the nose
- Movements of the mouth
- Diverse facial grimaces
- Clarification or throat-clearing of the gullet
DIAGNOSIS
The alone exploration and observation of the same ones is the principal diagnosis. Sometimes it is needed to do an electroencephalogram to discard some form of epilepsy.
TREATMENT
Since it is a transitory topic and much psicógeno he is recommended not to insist on saying it to the one that endures it, for not retroalimentarlos, and to give naturalness to the topic so that they are yielding themselves with the age. In some cases if they are very intense it is possible to give Risperidona, if there is important alteration of the quality of life.
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