What is the cause of rabbit lip?
Conclusion: Rabbit lips have many effects on babies. The most intuitive thing is that it seriously affects the child's appearance and hinders pronunciation. When children grow up and have consciousness, it will also have a negative impact on their psychology and easily lead to negative psychology such as inferiority. Rabbit lip is a very common congenital deformity in our life. Rabbit lip is called cleft lip in medicine, also known as notch and leak. In China, there are more than1700,000 patients with cleft lip, which has a high incidence among newborn babies and is a common genetic malformation. So what is the cause of rabbit lip? There are two main factors that cause rabbit lips, namely genetic factors and environmental factors: ① genetic factors: genetic research proves that the disease is polygenic, and 20-30% patients have positive genetic factors. We often see similar deformities in patients' relatives. ② Environmental factors: vitamin deficiency during pregnancy, mother's infection with virus during pregnancy, exposure to X-rays, hormones or anti-tumor drugs, antihistamines, tobacco and alcohol stimulation, etc. It may cause a series of distortions such as gene mutation. What effect does rabbit lips have on children? Rabbit lips have many effects on babies. The most intuitive thing is that it seriously affects the child's appearance and hinders pronunciation. When children grow up and have consciousness, it will also have a negative impact on their psychology and easily lead to negative psychology such as inferiority. Cleft lip and cleft lip also bring inconvenience to children's sucking and swallowing, and special nipples and utensils are needed to complete sucking and swallowing. Because the mouth and nose are connected, children often have upper respiratory tract infections and otitis media. When is rabbit lip best treated? Experts believe that unilateral cleft lip repair surgery is performed in children from 3 to 6 months, while bilateral cleft lip surgery is mostly performed in 6 ~ 12 months. It is risky to operate on children too early, and the repair effect is not very good. Too late will bring bad psychological influence to children and parents. How should rabbit lips be treated? Rabbit lips not only affect children's physical and mental health, but also bring heavy psychological and economic burden to parents. Therefore, measures should be taken to prevent rabbit lips. 1. Experts found that if women eat foods containing folic acid during pregnancy, such as broccoli, it will reduce the birth defects of baby's harelip and cleft palate. Therefore, pregnant women eat more folic acid to reduce the birth defects of baby rabbit lips. 2, women during pregnancy, it is best to ban smoking or drinking. Some drugs that will affect the fetus should be used with caution or not.