Anxiety Panic Attacks In Children
How to help a child with Panic Attacks?
My son whom is six years old with a mood disorder has been diagnosed with having panic attacks. He has had chest pains, and belly aches for the last four days. He has had a few issues where his breathing gets fast, his heart races, he gets all sweaty, shakey, etc. His psychiatrist put him on a low dose of Paxil 5 mg to help with the anxiety. He has also been sleeping a lot more and seems to be in a depression… a bipolar down… He is anxious to go to school, in stores, etc. What can they do at daycare to help him when he has these attacks, and what can I do at home also when he has them?
We did go to the ER… three different ones in the past three days where they did xrays, EKGs, blood work, listened to his lungs and heart… they found nothing physically wrong with him.
One of the incidences at school he was lying on his cot resting when he started screaming that the snakes were eating him bloody…
Please dont listen to the utterly uninformed answer by Sabine. I wish people who have no idea what they are talking about like her would just not give advice. Sugar does NOT cause anxiety disorders or panic attacks. They are due to a chemical imbalance in the brain which is why they have your son on an SSRI (paxil) to try and get things normalized.
Have they checked his thyroid? An overactive thyroid can cause some of these issues. They need to rule that out first to determine if he really does have an anxiety/panic disorder and this is not just the result of an overactive thyroid. If that is not the culprit and he does indeed just suffer from an anxiety disorder talk to your doctor about beta blockers.
I am not sure if they would be used for a child his age, but they can help adults with panic disorder. They block the physical symptoms of a panic attack including the sweating shaking and rapid heartbeat.
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