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DEFINITION
Phonation &
Articulation Problems
Delayed speech
Dyslalia
3. EATING DISORDERS
Pica
Anorexia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa
4. SLEEP
DISORDERS
Sleep walking(Somnambulism)
Sleep talking(somniloquy)
Juveniledelinquency
Temper tantrums
Shyness
Definition
Thumb Sucking is defined as non-nutritive
sucking of fingers or thumb.
AGE OF OCCURRENCE:-
It is common in oral stage (0-1yr) as the babies
have a natural urge to suck. This usually
decreases after the age of 6months. Many
babies continue to suck their thumb to soothe
themselves. Most children stop thumb sucking
between 3-6years of age.
CAUSES MANAGEMENT
-Emotional insecurity. -Positive reinforcement(
-Feeling of isolation praise the child and provide
-Boredom small awards).
-Stress -Identify the real issue and
provide comfort.
- Do not scold the child.
- Offer gentle reminders.
NAIL
BITING
Nail biting/ Onychophagia is a common oral
compulsive habit in children and adults.
It is a bad oral habit especially in school age
children beyond 4 years of age.
-It is a sign of tension and self punishment to cope
with the hostile feeling toward parents.
-It may continue up to adolescence.
-The child may bite all 10 finger nails or any specific
one.
-The bite may includes the cuticle or skin margins of
nail bed or surrounding tissue.
Etiology:- Fear due to horror
scenes or family
Out of Curiosity/ Boredom environment.
To relieve stress or anxiety. Feeling of Insecurity
Because of Habit. Tiredness
Because of Nervousness. Constant Nagging
Lack of Confidence.
Feeling Shy.
Parents need reassurance and
assistance to accept the situation and
help the child to overcome the problem
• Enuresis that
Nocturnal occurs during
enuresis sleep
• Enuresis that occurs
Diurnal Enuresis during day time or
when the child awake
• It includes a combination of
Mixed Enuresis both nocturnal and diurnal
type.
CAUSES OF ENURESIS
Inappropriate toilet training:- The age at which toilet
training is started as an important impact on child. If
toilet training is started very early it produces stress on the
child.
Neurological developmental delay:- This is the most
common cause of bedwetting. There is delayed
development in the ability to stay dry. bedwetting may be
due to delay in nervous system ability to process feeling
of a full bladder.
Genetic:- Bed wetting has a strong genetic
component. children whose parents were not waiting belt
have only 15% incidence of bedwetting. When one or
both parents where bedwetter the rate jump
to 44% to 77% respectively. genetic research shows that
bedwetting is associated with jeans on chromosome 13q
and 12 q.
Emotional factors:- Emotional and psychological
disturbance due to death in family sexual abuse, extreme
bullying, punishment for scolding, jealousy feeling your
sibling rivalry and feeling of being rejected create
internal tension in the child which may lead to
secondary enuresis.
Organic causes:- enuresis may occur due to
Anatomical defect of urinary tract and bladder, Diabetes
Insipidus, urinary tract infection etc.
MANAGEMENT
For management of bedwetting it is essential to assess the
home condition of the child his or her socioeconomic status
and family conditions. Assess the child parent
relationship. Child relationship with play means, teachers
and siblings is also evaluated.
1) Reassure the child and parents.
2) Try to built the child self confidence
3) Parents should be explained about the factors related
to bedwetting
4) Parents should be ask not to scold thread or punish the
child. Parents are advised not to Nag, criticize or
reprimand the child for bedwetting.
5) The child should not be given any liquid like tea or milk
after 5:00 p.m. in the evening.
6) The child should be habit really made to pass urine
before going to bed.
7) The parents should arouse the child after 2 to 3 hours
of sleep and persuade him to walk unaided to the
toilet to empty bladder.
8) The child is trained to hold urine for longer time. This
may be done by making the child drinking large
quantity of water during day and persuade him to
Delay empty bladder as long as possible.
9) Bedwetting alarms: provisions frequently suggest
bedwetting alarms which produce a loud tone on
sensing moisture. this helps the child to wake at
sensation of full bladder.
10) Assessment of exact causes very essential through
history and physical and clinical examination.
11) Organic causes should be managed with specific
treatment.
12) Parents should encourage and reward the child for dry
Nights.
13) Punishment and criticism may lead to embarrassment
and frustration of child so it should be avoided.
14) Medications: in very resistant cases tricyclic
antidepressant like amitriptyline , imipramine and
nortriptyline are given orally at night for two
months. Desmopressin which is a synthetic
replacement for antidiuretic hormone is also given as it
produces urine production during sleep.
ENCOPRESIS
DEFINITION
-Encopresis indicates a
ENCOPRESIS refers to more serious emotional
passage of feaces into disturbances than
inappropriate place at enuresis and is less
any age when bowel common(around 1% in
control should have school children)
been established
CAUSES
SIGN &
-Anatomic abnormality
SYMPTOMS
- Emotional disturbances
-Withhold defecation
-Improper toilet training
-Distended abdomen
-Stress in school activity -Diarrhoea related to
-Overprotection irritation of GI tract
- Fear related to toilet - Tensed feeling
-Poor parent child - Aggressiveness.
bonding
DIAGNOSTIC MANAGEMENT
EVALUATION -Establish regular
- History of bowel bowel habits(e.g.
elimination. make the child to sit in
- Physical toilet for at least 10
examination. minutes a day.
-Detail about pattern -Reassurance and help
of current toilet from psychologist for
practice counselling of child
and parents.
-Breath holding spells are brief periods of
children stop breathing up to 1 minute.
These spells often cause a child to pass out.
-Breath holding spells usually occurs when
young child is angry, frustrated, in pain, or
afraid.
-It is most common in toddlers. And more
common in 2 months old and up to 2 years
old.
-It occurs between 6 month to 6 years of
age
TYPES
1. CYANOTIC 2. PALLID SPELLS:
SPELLS: they are often They are usually seen
provoked by an upsetting following a painful or
situation, in an anger or fearful experience. The
in frustration. The child child becomes pale and
cries loudly and then cry often loses consciousness
gradually becomes within a single gasp or cry.
noiseless as child open
the mouth and holds the
breath in expiration for
about 20-30 sec. The
child turns blue and then
child may again start
CAUS SIGN & SYMPTOMS
ES
-Fear -Blue or pale skin
-Pain -Crying then no breathing
-Traumatic event -Fainting or loss of
-Being startled or alertness.
confronted -Jerky movements
- Genetic conditions -Normal breathing starts
- Iron deficiency anaemia again after a brief period of
-Family history of breath unconsciousness.
holding spell. -The child’s colour
improves with the first
breath.
-They occurs several times
a day
MANAGEMENT
CAUSES OF SHYNESS:
• Genetic inheritance.
• Environmental causes like lack of exposure,
cultural norms and society etc.
MANAGEMENT