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Chronic throat clearing for almost 6-7months

Please help me!!!my 9yrs old daughter suffering throat clearing and dry cough for a almost 6-7months now sometime she frel pain in the throat beacause of the chronic and continuing clearing throat,i already visited diffrent doctors and many doctors as in many and take different medicine and finished all,xray neg,cbc neg,spirometry ok,stethoscope ok,but nothing happened,she take allergy med like cetirizine,loratadine,iterax,zyrtec,claritin etc,nasal spray fluticasone,nasonex,sterimar,different antibiotic clarithromycin,co amoxiclav etc,MDI inhaler,nebulizer,montelukast,med for cough fluimucil,broncair erc,med for GERD,acid reflux and non acid reflux med,lansoprazole and motillium,different kind kind of lozenges and gargles,now shes undergo to allergy shot 2inject wweekly,now she is in the 4th weeks of shot but the clearing throat was still there,i hard to think that cause of that is tic or habit syndrome because she know its hurt when continuing throat clearing and my daughter saw how i feel everyday she doing that,i think something wrong inside the body of my daughter,and i cant wait to the result of allergy shot,i cant sit down and wait only because i know the clearing throat can be spread or be complicated maybe some organs can damage,i have financial problem and i cant affird some lab test,i like to request the nasalendoscopy and throat,stomach ultrasound,Vitamin test,maybe viD,vitB12 and magnesium problems,and accidentally i met 2 different people i talked and they have the same problem like my daughter thaey almost same medicine they take but that med is only for adult,it is very hard for me because of money problem,like now she feel pain in the throat and i cant do anything because my wallet is empty,i just give a gargle salt and warm water,the doctors fee is very expensive and the charity doctors cant talk very long,some doctor got angry because i want to tell the other symptoms that connected to the problem,i hope someone can help me,i feel paranoid hopeless and sometime i want to give up,please help me
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That's always a difficult situation. It really does sound like a tic. Tics often have physical pain due to it. Throat clearing is a very common type of tic. They are made worse when the child feels excited, fatigued, and stressed. The best treatments are behavioral therapy, dopamine blockers, and, in extreme cases, botox injections.
To ease the pain in her throat momentarily, I would suggest swallowing a spoonful of honey before bed. It helps calm the throat. If she doesn't like honey plain, you could mix liberal amounts of it into a hot herbal tea.
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