Anybody's family have tics and/or ADHD?

[kallik]

My son started having tics like throat clearing and eye rolling with some ADHD symptoms at around age 8 years old. Anybody have this same problem, or know anybody dealing with this? Any help would be appreciated, including vitamins, etc. to give to my son. Thanks.

[Cricket1]

Tics and throat clearing can sometimes be Tourette's. I think there may be meds for this, but I'm not sure. I would call his pediatrician.

[frugalwanttobe]

I thought you may find this website interesting.

http://intramural.nimh.nih.gov/pdn/web.htm

[mom2three]

The PANDAs stuff is definitely a possibility. I would also suggest reading Kenneth Bock's newest book called HEaling the New Childhood Epidemis: Autism ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies. For my daughter, diet helps a huge amount - she is generally gluten free, casein free and I try to keep the dyes out as much as I can (red is a killer). The diets are doable even if some say they are difficult. Is your son having any other issues - stomach problmes, headaches, etc? One good thing to have him on is probiotics as well.

[bumplett]

Yes, my son was diagniosed with ADHD around age 7 ~ runs in the family ~ very interesting how it can affect one, but skip one, but catch another -

but anyway - yes, he also has had tics - eye blinking, jaw opening/popping, picking at his fingers, etc. No 'tic' has ever lasted more than 5 months or so - and he seems to have outgrown them at this point - he will still pick at his fingers/fingernails, but the doctor thinks that this too shall pass in time -

[bumplett]

I should also add: there was never any doubt that my son was a bit on the hyper side - these weren't issues that just appeared one day out of the blue - even his 3 year old pre-k teacher tried to tell me ~

so....... my point is: if your son is 8 years old and just now displaying ADHD symptoms - it may not be ADHD at all ~