Cure girl who sneezed 12,000 times a day
Baku, August 1 (AZERTAC). Cereceda Ayleen sneezing every few seconds, a rare phenomenon. Chilean doctors discovered he was a nervous tic and solved the problem.
Cereceda Ayleen not stop sneezing, so for more than 12,000 times a day. So, every few seconds.
Only when he did sleep, always in the wee hours of the morning, this child of eleven Chilean kept sneezing.
The constant shocks that began to suffer from last April, following an infectious, we generated a sore throat, abdominal pain, sore wrists and around his body.
His case is truly unusual: they are only 15 such cases where there are described in the literature.
After study, a multidisciplinary team of University of Chile Clinical Hospital was able to control the evil that afflicted the child.
After two weeks hospitalized under the gaze of a team, the doctors agreed to be a multidisciplinary, psychological and pharmacological basis of neuroleptic drugs in pill form prescribed for the tics.
The cause of the constant sneezing is not yet clear. As the BBC says the doctor. Carlos Silva, a neurologist at the hospital handled the case, first rule out the most probable hypotheses: infections, allergies and even epilepsy.
Then found that it was "a rare vocal tic," with emotional roots. The sound was identical to that of a sneeze.
"We know that tics, repetitive and stereotyped movements, are a mixed problem which stressors influence, personality characteristics and alterations of certain neural circuits. They are organic and emotional factors, hence it is key and fundamental treatment and psychological support "Silva said, adding that" there is still to dig "in the psychological motives of the rare condition of the child.
"I feel relieved, I`m happy because there is no sneezing. It does not hurt your neck or head or guatita (belly)," said Ayleen, who was hospitalized for 12 days.
The girl does not sneeze, but emits a kind of hoarseness every two or three minutes, the doctors explained.
In the coming days will be discharged and may well start a new life in his native home Curico, 200 kilometers south of Santiago.
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