Re: Self choking behavior

[Guest guest]

My almost 12 year old did a few times a few years back..Does your daughter feel

pain such as hot water normally? We helped her with this with the additional

vitamin E. Also talking to her about how it really is not good for her and also

how it smells bad. Have you had her all her life or as my daughter was she

adopted? We also gave her raw baby carrots to chew on once she went to bed (she

also shared them with our dog) now that I look back on it she had terrible

stress when going to bed and since about a month ago discovered she was abused

sometime the first four years of her life in the orphange. But the carrots

helped her get some of the stress relieved. Now that she can share some of her

memories with us it has helped we also put a cot at the foot of our bed and she

enjoys the fact that if she has a nightmare she can sleep in our room. Good

luck with this as I know it is very troubling and so difficult to figure out

when your child has apraxia of speech.

Roxanne

From: Xun

Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 10:17 AM

Subject: [ ] Self choking behavior

Hi, all.

My five year daughter has had problems of putting her hand down her throat to

choke herself for sensory input. She has been doing this since she was a baby

and it is getting worse. Yesterday, I heard her coughing loudly in the middle of

the night. This morning found her all messed with what she threw up. My wife

thinks that she must have choked herself like she did in the past.

Do any of you here have similar experience and have found some effective way of

dealing with this?

Thanks,

Xun

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Roxie, for your tips.

My daughter was not adopted.  She has severe autism and PDD by diagnosis.  She

has a lot of sensory issues besides this one such as banging her head on the

floor.  She has not done any self-choking recently until last night even if she

had this behavior a lot more often in the past.

Xun

From: Roxie <rxflwrs@...>

Subject: Re: [ ] Self choking behavior

Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 2:28 PM

 

My almost 12 year old did a few times a few years back..Does your daughter

feel pain such as hot water normally? We helped her with this with the

additional vitamin E. Also talking to her about how it really is not good for

her and also how it smells bad. Have you had her all her life or as my daughter

was she adopted? We also gave her raw baby carrots to chew on once she went to

bed (she also shared them with our dog) now that I look back on it she had

terrible stress when going to bed and since about a month ago discovered she was

abused sometime the first four years of her life in the orphange. But the

carrots helped her get some of the stress relieved. Now that she can share some

of her memories with us it has helped we also put a cot at the foot of our bed

and she enjoys the fact that if she has a nightmare she can sleep in our room.

Good luck with this as I know it is very troubling and so difficult to figure

out when your child has

apraxia of speech.

Roxanne

From: Xun

Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 10:17 AM

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Subject: [childrensapraxiane t] Self choking behavior

Hi, all.

My five year daughter has had problems of putting her hand down her throat to

choke herself for sensory input. She has been doing this since she was a baby

and it is getting worse. Yesterday, I heard her coughing loudly in the middle of

the night. This morning found her all messed with what she threw up. My wife

thinks that she must have choked herself like she did in the past.

Do any of you here have similar experience and have found some effective way of

dealing with this?

Thanks,

Xun

[Guest guest]

Juat a thought, we are see a homeopath that specializes is koddies on the

spectrum. Have you tried this route? I know there are other parents that I have

spoken to at his office who have seen great help with different behaviours.

Anni

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Re: [ ] Self choking behavior

Thanks, Roxie, for your tips.

My daughter was not adopted.  She has severe autism and PDD by diagnosis.  She

has a lot of sensory issues besides this one such as banging her head on the

floor.  She has not done any self-choking recently until last night even if she

had this behavior a lot more often in the past.

Xun

[Guest guest]

Yes - my son does it for sensory reasons as well.  He also was recently

diagnosed with epilepsy and with concurrent psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

and, as part of the latter, he shoves his hands into his throat - even though

you're not supposed to restrain a person in a seizure, I do hold onto his hands

to stop that.  When he does it when not in a seizure, he knows it's something

he shouldn't be doing and we've gotten to the point where I just look at him and

he'll pull his hands out.  It's very frustrating!  I'd put something horrible

on his fingers but he rubs his eyes and I'm concerned whatever the stuff is will

hurt his eyes.  So, we work with the OT on redirecting the behavior.

 

It's horrible, it's something that always brings the fear that they will gag

themselves and stop breathing, and I wish you all the luck in the world in

working through the behavior.  Keep in touch - I'd be interested to know how

your progress is.

 

Sherry and Josh

From: Xun <xunshao@...>

Subject: [ ] Self choking behavior

Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:17 AM

 

Hi, all.

My five year daughter has had problems of putting her hand down her throat to

choke herself for sensory input. She has been doing this since she was a baby

and it is getting worse. Yesterday, I heard her coughing loudly in the middle of

the night. This morning found her all messed with what she threw up. My wife

thinks that she must have choked herself like she did in the past.

Do any of you here have similar experience and have found some effective way of

dealing with this?

Thanks,

Xun