Tic phenomena | Differential diagnoses |
---|---|
Eye rolling | Absences |
Blinking | Allergy, poor vision |
Focussing on tic control | Attention problems |
‘Excessive’ tics | Imitation/somatisation |
Tripping | Medication-induced akathisia, juvenile parkinsonism |
Neck jerking | Dystonia, medication-induced dyskinesia |
Convulsive grimacing | Facial spasms or blepharospasms |
Sniffing | Allergy, hay fever, cold |
Scratching | Scabies, lice, allergies |
Tics during sleep | Restless leg syndrome/benign epilepsy of childhood with centro-temporal spikes/parasomnias, sleep myoclonus |