Natural Treatments for Tics and Tourette's: A Patient and Family Guide Paperback – October 21, 2008

my son who is 5 and extremely healthy started to exhibit extreme neck tics out of NO WHERE. looking back he did have a brief eye tic that went away for a few weeks the year before. However his neck and face tics came on fast and furious out of no where. my son has always been extremely well behaved, great concentration level, great socially and this really was scary. we took him to a neurologist and his pediatrician who were useless. said they knew nothing about tics (no one does in the medical community) and that they grow out of them and not much they can do. if it becomes severe they would then treat it with SERIOUS drugs (not anything i was going to do). i've always been interested in natural remedies and grew up on them. i read this book and it was FASCINATING to hear about how some of things these can be fixed with a simple diet. so that is what we tried first. i realized our son although a healthy eater ate way too much surgar and snacks - not enough real food. he had just started kindergarden and we packed his lunch - so he was getting a lot of snacky food. we cut down the snacks, sugar - - starting pushing more veggies and fruit and kale and greens. then put him on fish oil (1 tab and a half a day) and a supplement for kelp. we did see a naturopath and this was recommended. his face tics when away IMMEDIALTEY along with the neck. literally instead of doing a tic every 30 seconds all day long - he does one once a day or not at all. i did run out of fish oil as the brand i liked was on back order. he stopped and guess what - the tics came back. not as bad but just more often (more like five times a day). he's back on the fish oil and poof gone again. he still does them occasionally like maybe once a week or every other day - so we're going to see a allergist. but i SWEAR by this book. for all you nay sayers. JUST STOP! just try some simple recommendations and you will see it works. The medical community makes WAY TO MUCH MONEY off drugs so ofcourse they think this is all crap cause they have a lot to loose. drugs stop the symptoms not the underlying problem. these remedies and supplement get a the root cause. a TIC just means something is off - but i swear it can be fixed.

This was an informative book. There certainly is hope for those suffering from these disorders that doesn't necessarily have to involve dangerous drugs. I am a candidate for a doctorate as a Naturopath and will use this in my resource library. The question to always ask is what is my body/mind trying to tell me with regard to my symptoms. This book will guide you to look at the symptoms and ask those questions. It will also help you begin your journey by suggesting various avenues to explore. It leaves the reader with a sense of hope for successfully treating the root causes naturally. Treatment can be multi-faceted, often like putting together a puzzle. The end result makes it worth all the time and energy spent. Hope is something soarly lacking in most medical resources for these disorders, that makes this book all the more valuable.

This is a great book that I highly recommend to parents who have children with tics. As someone who was dissatisfied with the doctors' advice that "tics are hereditary, there's nothing you can do, take these drugs, go away" this book really helped me explore alternative ways to help my 6-year-old. (He did try clonodine and had bad side effects, so we stopped it after 11 days.) This book led us to a gluten-free/dairy-free diet, some testing that turned up high levels of yeast and bad gut bacteria, and a doctor accredited through the American Academy of Environmental Medicine who was able to tailor a plan to help him that included supplements and naturalistic approaches. We are very pleased with his progress 8 months after the purchase of this book. This book helped to narrow my focus and provided a place where lots of strategies are condensed and presented together instead of the yawning, overwhelming chasm of the entire internet!

I am still in the middle of reading this and there are so many great ideas that I wouldn't have thought of. So glad I bought this book and will finish it to the end . Hard to know if anything will help my son's tic but we are going to try many of the ideas. Well worth the purchase!

This book is worth the money for me. My son has had mild tics since he was a young child. I wish I had the knowledge back then that I have today about food additives and allergy foods, but I didn't. He is now in his mid 20 and the tics have increased and gotten worse. This book caught my eye bacause I know, now, how food affects us, both mentally and physically. My 90 year old uncle was told when he developed cancer to just go home and enjoy his last days. Prayerfully, he researched cancer and found that the food we eat can have a HUGE affect on our body's ability to heal. He eliminated all gluten, dairy and sugar from his diet and within a 9 month period, his cancer was gone! The doctor, being a conventional doctor, couldn't understand it, but said just keep doing what your doing! My point is that this book also has these 3 foods as culprits, so I bought it for my son. He is in the process of reading the book. I am confident that if he can eliminate these foods from his diet, his symptoms will improve.