Re: highly humming and jumping plz help me out/and alsolet me know tip...

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Swampna,

As you are working to get the medical issues figured out, some things that

might help include:

1) Deep Pressure -- providing 5+ minuts of deep pressure touch on your child

several

times a day, with extra done during more hyper periods. This involves

pressing

very hard with your fingers and thumb for as long as the child will

allow,

preferably 7 seconds each hold. Most kids I've worked with are very

hypo-

tactile for deep pressure and you could press so hard you'd bruise

another

child with them not feeling it much at all. Interestingly these same

kids tend

to freak out or recoil to light touch. Anyway, press as hard as you

can starting

at the toes working up to the hips, then from the fingers to the

shoulders.

2) Proprioceptive Input -- squish him between pillows, roll him up in a

blanket,

give him a big hug, anything that presses into the muscles will help

calm

an overactive system

3) Look into Sensory Integration Therapy and the Wilbarger Brushing Protocol

--

you can probably find a lot about this by doing a web search. If you

can't

find much, let me know and I'll give you more details. The jumping

could

indicate a need for vestibular and proprioceptive input which will help

your child better organize his brain. SI would help this.

4) Trigeminal/Cranial Stimulation -- as it was explained to me when I first

learned

this activity, the trigeminal nerve is the most reactive in the body

and stimulating

it will help calm down an over-reactive system including auditory,

tactile, and

taste sensativities plus hyperness. This is a wonderful long-term

thing for

relaxing a hyper body as well as getting picky eaters to branch out.

First,

you apply a very light touch all over the face and head alternating a

tickling

motion and just light hand brush, for as much as the child will allow

up to

one minute, followed by the same amount of time doing a deep finger

press/rub

in the same areas. Some kids really hate the light touch so you have

to

work up gradually according to their tolerance but ideally you'd do

light touch

for one minute, followed immediately by deep touch for one minute and

repeat

3-4 times a day.

5) Check how you're feeling when your child jumps and hums and try to get as

comfortable with it as possible. Often these kids feed off our stress

and

they can pick it up even if we're acting like we're comfortable.

You'll be

much more likely to help your child work past these if you are relaxed.

You might also want to keep a log of what your child eats and is exposed to

when the humming and jumping gets worse. My son used to do a monotone hum

when he ate and taking out food allergens eliminated it.

Gaylen