What to do if your baby keeps clearing his throat

The throat is a particularly important tissue for the human body. Our voice is controlled by our throat, but many problems often occur in this area, including the feeling of foreign matter in the throat and the desire to clear the throat. This happens not only to adults but also to babies. So what should we do if our baby keeps clearing his throat?

The little boy clearly made a throat clearing sound that lasted for weeks to months, and his parents thought he had a cough and went to the doctor for treatment. As the disease lasted for several months, it was misdiagnosed as "chronic pharyngitis" or "bronchitis". However, the anti-infection treatment was not only ineffective, but the symptoms tended to worsen. The sound of the throat became a stereotyped behavior and was difficult to control. Later, after detailed consultation and examination by expert Director Zheng, these cases were finally diagnosed as multiple tics.

If a child always clears his throat, it is a symptom of vocal tics and is most likely caused by tics. Vocal tics are also divided into simple vocal tics and complex vocal tics. Simple vocal tics manifest as rapid, meaningless, monotonous repetitions, such as constant throat clearing, coughing, humming, roaring, grunting, screaming, etc.; complex vocal tics produce some seemingly meaningful short sentences, or more complex sentences, and some also manifest as repetitive, stereotyped complete sentences, such as certain word sounds, imitating speech, and repeating speech, but those who manifest as foul language are mostly adults, and children are rare. Vocal tics are generally characterized by slurred speech, nasal sounds, delayed speech, and uneven pitch.

Most patients develop motor tics first and then vocal tics; some cases also show simultaneous onset of motor tics and vocal tics. Tourette syndrome causes children to clear their throats all the time. In order to avoid misdiagnosis, timely examination and treatment are needed.

The Tourette Syndrome Treatment Center of Henan Institute of Modern Medical Sciences Hospital uses the latest scientific research results, the TS multidimensional classification therapy of traditional Chinese medicine, based on scientific testing, and directly evaluates the damaged areas of children's behavioral consciousness and the pathogenic mechanism through EEG testing. It adopts a "non-invasive" diagnosis and treatment plan that complies with international regulations - biological treatment combined with green treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, targeted and accurate use of drugs to achieve rapid control and cure. While adopting multi-dimensional intervention treatment, psychological counseling is also provided, with targeted counseling by professional child psychologists to achieve the treatment effect.