BOTOX CAN CONTROL TOURETTE'S SYNDROME SWEARING

BOTOX CAN CONTROL TOURETTE'S SYNDROME SWEARING

HOUSTON (Wireless Flash) -- A trendy wrinkle treatment is finding another use: Controlling the foul-mouthed outbursts from sufferers of Tourette's Syndrome. Neurologists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have found the same "Botox" treatment that smooths out the wrinkles on socialites' foreheads also keeps Tourette's Syndrome sufferers from swearing uncontrollably. It seems the swearing is actually a nervous tic, and when Botox is injected into the larynx, it paralyzes the muscle that causes the swearing. Doctors have also found Botox useful for controlling other symptoms of Tourette's Syndrome, such as blinking, repetitive throat clearing and shoulder shrugging.