Chorea.

Chorea, or Vitta Dancing( the dance of St. Wine), is a nervous disease that manifests itself in the twitching of various parts of the body. Such twitching can last for months. They can be very noticeable or so light that they remain almost unnoticed. Twitching of the face muscles is perceived as grimacing. The shoulder may be twitching, first in one direction, then in the other. Jerking the muscles of the body forces you to do uncoordinated movements. You can twitch or bend your fingers. Such a child can have a very illegible handwriting, he can drop things. The movements carry the irregular character, first one muscle is contracted, then the other one. There are no completely similar movements.

Some children who are prone to chorea also have seizures of rheumatism that cause arthritis and cardiac dysfunction. This led many doctors to assume that chorea is another type of rheumatism. But children have attacks of chorea without any signs of rheumatism. Therefore, other doctors believe that there are two types of chorea - rheumatic and non-rheumatic.

Most often, attacks of chorea occur in children from the age of seven to adolescence. Other nervous disorders, such as tick and general restlessness, are also common at this age, and they are often mixed with chorea. A child who suffers from a tick, nervously repeats the same movements, for example, winks, clears his throat, pulls his shoulder, while the movements are disorderly and always different when chorea. General restlessness is also something completely different. I mean a child who constantly fidgets in a chair, chattering with his feet, always twisting something in his hands and so on.

During the attack of chorea, the child shows signs of mental imbalance. He cries easily, laughs easily, gets irritated at the slightest provocation. He can not do anything with himself, and you should take this into account when communicating with him at home. A child suffering from chorea must be under the care of a doctor. Chorea necessarily passes, even if there were several seizures. But the child should be inspected regularly to make sure there are no other signs of rheumatism. If they are, the child needs to be treated.