Guner Sukru Nail, Gokcen Cem, Gokturk Bahar, Topal Ozgul
Department of Pediatrics, Baskent University Medical Faculty, Konya, Turkey.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2010 Oct;74(10):1196-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2010.07.012. Epub 2010 Aug 11.
Sneezing is one of the physiological defense mechanisms that develops generally due to nasal irritation. But intractable sneezing episodes are uncommon and generally detected among the adolescents. It is difficult to distinguish physiologic sneezing from psychogenic sneezing. Herein, we report a 12-year-old girl who was complaint with intractable sneezing. She was diagnosed as intractable psychogenic sneezing and haloperidol treatment was started. All symptoms had resolved completely within 2 weeks. As a result, haloperidol can be considered as a different treatment modality for intractable psychogenic sneezing.
打喷嚏是一种通常由鼻腔刺激引起的生理防御机制。但顽固性打喷嚏发作并不常见，一般在青少年中发现。很难区分生理性打喷嚏和心因性打喷嚏。在此，我们报告一名12岁女孩，她患有顽固性打喷嚏。她被诊断为顽固性心因性打喷嚏，并开始使用氟哌啶醇治疗。所有症状在2周内完全缓解。因此，氟哌啶醇可被视为治疗顽固性心因性打喷嚏的一种不同治疗方式。
