My daughter cries herself to sleep

[ivyward]

My daughter who is 7 constantly feels things crawling on her.  When I look there is nothing there.  I took her to the nurse and they checked her for lice and bug bites, but she had none.  The biggest problem is in her ears & nose.  Her face too.  She scratches until it hurts to take whatever it is off of her, but it doesn't go away.  She says she feels it all day, but at night it's worse...probably because she is still and focused.  I am lost!!!  She cries every night.  She's angry and frustrated.  

Please help me!  I don't know what to do.

[nastursim]

Does she have skin lesions, memory lose, lack of energy, or had skin infections? Really, if you thought it was so serious, why are you one here, asking for advice,when she should be taken to a pediatrician or dermatologist?

[nastursim]

Well, why not just get her tested then??

[ivyward]

No.  I was reading online about Neurocutaneous Syndrome (NCS).  Neurocutaneous Syndrome (NCS) is a dental toxicity disorder causing various neurological and dermatological symptoms that are often confused by the lay patient as parasitological infections.  Incubation period varied between a few hours and 19 years.  Faulty diagnosis undermines the patients physical and mental health and further traumatizes their quality of life especially when they are diagnosed with mental disorders and forced to submit to psychological treatment against their will.

Here's some information about it:

Neurocutaneous Syndrome (NCS), a newly discovered dental toxicity syndrome (Amin, 2001) is characterized by neurological and dermatological disorders as well as systemic and related dysfunctions. Patients experience, among other symptoms, pin-***** movement sensations and itchy cutaneous lesions that may invite various opportunistic infections. Components of the calcium hydroxide sealants Dycal, Life, and Sealapex, among others, have been identified as the source of the observed symptoms. The toxicity of sealants, compounding factors and case histories were discussed and management protocols practiced at Parasitology Center, Inc. (PCI) were proposed by Amin (2003, 2004). Lay NCS patients often confuse the movement sensations, itchy skin and related symptoms with parasitic infections and seek medical help under this assumption. Invariably, they are diagnosed with and treated for other etiologies often including arthropod infestation and/ or mental conditions such as psychosis. Patients are genuine clinical cases that should not be further compromised by inaccurate diagnosis, wrongly medicated or subjected to psychological treatment in mental health care facilities. On occasions, I spend time helping NCS patients out of mental facilities. The institutionalization of some patients seriously compromise their state of mental and physical health, self confidence, and their ability to make sound decisions.

My daughter has bad teath.  She has a few cavities & has had one tooth pulled, because it was infected and the infection swelled her face (which is very dangerouse).  She has another tooth that breaks apat when she eats.  She brushes twice a day & sometimes 3 times a day, but when she was younger, we didn't take care of her teath too well, which led to bad cavities.

NCS is the only thing that makes sense to me so far.  I don't believe that my daughter is OCD.  I believe that at 7 she can be dramatic or even that she might want to stay up past her bedtime, but she's been very consistant with this and it's been going on for a very long time.  That doesn't rule out OCD,but it's not my first choice.

Any other ideas?

[nastursim]

Have you had her to a child psychologist? Could be a bit of OCD