Please please help me to stop DD snorting

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It’s like living in a farmyard.

Every few minutes she snorts.

It started about a month ago. Now it’s turned into a habit and it is incredibly annoying.

There’s no medical reason as far as we know. she’s a nail biter, and can be quite anxious.

Makes no difference if we ask / tell her to stop. Like her nails, it seems to be involuntary.

Any ideas?

How old is she?

My daughter used to grunt and bark. How old is your dd?

My Dd snored loudly and her tonsils met in the middle. The doctor scoffed at my concerns but when she had them removed the snoring stopped.

It may be just a nervous tic , my son has had an array over he years , it may be Tourette’s also so worth taking her to GP .

I'm also thinking a vocal tic or Tourette's is an option, my dd was diagnosed aged 7 after years or odd behaviour and vocal tics.
Sometimes they outgrow it, but worth looking into

Sorry, her age would have helped - she’s five and a half.

GP isn’t overly concerned, there’s nothing else going on.

Dsis and I apparently did the same when we were small (early school years). My mum reminded us every time we did it to stop, she says it was a pain in the proverbial but did halt it after about a month.

So just keep nagging? I feel like I’m permanently on her case, every other sentence is ‘take your hands out of your mouth’ or ‘STOP snorting’!

I’m sure I remember reading another thread on children’s tics a while ago & there the advice was not to nag, but ignore it, as if the tic is anxiety based then nagging can compound the anxiety and thus the tic.

Oh I feel for you. My DD began compulsive throat clearing at about the same age. She progressed through mouth stretching, eye widening and repetitive nonsense sound making. By the time she was 10, we were convinced she had Tourette's and as she was also very anxious and still tantrumming, we sought help from the GP. Long story short, it gradually all subsided and now, aged 14, she just has one knuckle that she cracks. We were far more conscious of it than anyone else, including teachers, and her friends all took it in their stride too.

I'm at my wits end with my 10yr old ds, his snorting has been going on for about four years now. He does have asd and I've tried everything. Ignoring, telling him off,last week I went and bought him some vic and said will help him to ease anything that's up there. exept there isn't anything. I just think as soon as he goes up to secondary next year,he will want to fit in and it will stop?!

Yes, DD's 'quirks' definitely massively reduced once she started secondary school, but she did pay a price - absolutely exhausted and quite Terry.

Teary. No clue who Terry is.

Going back some years, I remember that Dd2 had a grunting tic for sometime but she’s over it now.

It sounds very much like a tic. Ignore it, I know it's hard but pointing it out makes it worse as the more they are aware and try to stop it the more they do it. She's not doing it on purpose and will likely grow out of it.

drkaylenehenderson.com/expert-tips-for-childhood-tics/
Some useful info here.

Will the tips help with OH? He’s constantly got a tune or a phrase that gets repeated through out the day

Repetitive behaviour can be treated with different types of cbt, it's easier in adults to recognise the 'tic' and distract from it by focusing on something else. It depends if your OH knows he's doing it and can't help it or if it's subconscious. If it's like an urge they can't resist and feels compelled to carry out this tune/phrase then I'd say yes some things would help, always better to see a professional though, I fought for years to get help for my dd

Great web link, thanks.

Ok, I’ll try ignoring. Might need to invest in earplugs though!