What is the reason of baby's head and neck weakness? In real life, most of us are very concerned about the baby's growth, but sometimes we will encounter various problems. Some parents will encounter the baby's head and neck weakness, so what is the reason for the baby's head and neck weakness? Let's take a look at the answer together!
What is the reason of baby's head and neck weakness? 1
Livzon is 40 years old and has two smart daughters. Her husband, Mr. Chen, runs a business and lives in hundreds of local families. Livzon was pregnant again last year. She longed for another son, so after consulting with her husband, she decided to hide in the country and give birth to the child. 10 months later, Livzon was born, really a fat son. The whole family was overjoyed and extremely happy. However, on the third day after the baby was born, he found that his skin was a little yellow, and the couple didn't care too much at that time. A few days later, the baby began to drip, the navel was red, pus oozed, and jaundice became deeper and deeper. Livzon and his wife are in a hurry, and they are busy taking their children to the local health center. After a few days of intravenous drip in the hospital, the baby's jaundice gradually improved and the couple took him home.
The baby is four months old. Under the careful care of the whole family, she looks fat in vain, but slowly, the experienced mother finds that the baby's head and neck always seem to be weak and wobbly, and she won't "babble" or laugh loudly when talking to him. Neighbors say the baby may be short of calcium. Therefore, Livzon supplements calcium to children every day. Blink of an eye 10 months have passed, and the baby still can't sit. I also heard that it takes cod liver oil to be effective. Since then, calcium tablets and cod liver oil have been uninterrupted every day, but by the time the baby is over 1 year old, there is still not much progress. Compare the children of the same age around you and think about the lively and lovely appearance of the two daughters when they were young. 1 year-old, they will mutter to their parents while walking ... Livzon thinks more and more wrong. The next morning, the couple came to my clinic with their son. I asked about the child's medical history while having a careful physical examination. I found that the baby often smirked unconsciously, his head leaned back, the muscle tension of his limbs increased obviously, and the tendon reflex was hyperactive ... All kinds of signs suggested the diagnosis of "cerebral palsy". When Mr. Chen is in a hurry, common sense tells him that "cerebral palsy" is not a trivial matter. What the hell is this?
Cerebral palsy, referred to as cerebral palsy, refers to the non-progressive brain injury caused by various reasons from before death to after birth 1 month, mainly manifested as central motor disorder and abnormal posture, which is one of the main diseases causing motor disability. Because muscles receive abnormal instructions from brain tissue, they become stiff or soft, and cannot complete the voluntary movement that normal children should have. But the child's muscles are not paralyzed. In fact, the lesions are in the brain, so it is called cerebral palsy.
The etiology of cerebral palsy is complicated, and the direct causes are brain injury and brain development defects. Risk factors can be divided into the following categories: prenatal (prenatal) factors. Including prenatal genetic factors and fetal factors, such as intrauterine growth retardation, brain malformation, placental dysfunction, intrauterine infection, physical and chemical damage of pregnant women. 1 100 million birth (delivery) factors, such as birth asphyxia and birth injury. Neonatal factors, such as complications of premature and low birth weight infants, neonatal encephalopathy, central nervous system infection, brain trauma, etc. Imagine the unknown. Livzon's baby suffers from cerebral palsy, which may be related to poor delivery conditions in rural areas, leading to umbilical infection of the baby, which in turn leads to nuclear jaundice. That is, early neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, free bilirubin enters brain cells through the blood-brain barrier and causes damage.
The clinical types of cerebral palsy can be divided into: spastic type; 100 million hands and feet crawling type; Rigid service type; Hypothetical ataxia type; Hypotonic escape type; Trembling type; Popular mixed type; It cannot be classified. Among them, the incidence of spasm is the highest, accounting for about 60% ~ 80% of children with cerebral palsy, followed by hand and foot peristalsis, accounting for about 20%.
There are various manifestations of cerebral palsy, which vary with different types, damaged parts and age stages. The main performance is as follows:
1, sports development is backward, and active sports are reduced. The motor ability of children with cerebral palsy is lower than that of normal children of the same age, and those with poor motor self-control ability are clumsy or clumsy. In severe cases, people can't look up, turn over, sit, stand or walk, their limbs move backward or leak, voluntary movement is difficult, their movements are stiff, uncoordinated and asymmetrical, and abnormal movement patterns and voluntary movement appear.
2. Abnormal muscle tone. Muscle tension of spastic cerebral palsy gradually increases. Muscle tension of cerebral palsy with hand-foot creep often does not increase within 1 year, but gradually increases with age, showing a gear-like or lead-tube muscle tension increase. Hypotonic cerebral palsy is often a transitional form of other types of cerebral palsy at a certain age.
3. Abnormal posture. There are various abnormal postures in children with cerebral palsy, which are related to abnormal muscle tone and the disappearance of primitive reflex delay. For example, spastic cerebral palsy is characterized by adduction of shoulder joint, flexion of elbow joint, flexion of wrist joint, and flexion of fingers as a fist. Lower limb thigh abduction is difficult, hip joint is pronated, ankle joint is plantar flexion, toes touch the ground when standing, and tiptoe when walking. Because of the tension of adductor muscle of thigh, walking is scissors gait.
4. Abnormal reflex. Neuroreflex in children with cerebral palsy is often manifested as delayed disappearance of primitive reflex and weakened or delayed appearance of protective reflex. Children with spasms have active or hyperactive deep reflexes.
On the other hand, children with cerebral palsy are often complicated with other abnormal conditions, such as mental retardation, vision, hearing, language, emotional and behavioral disorders, seizures and so on.
As we know, every system of a baby is in a developmental stage. If cerebral palsy is formed, it can't be found in time and intervened as soon as possible. With the maturity of children's nervous system and the emergence of new motor skills, motor disorders will gradually become obvious. After several years, the rigid, all-round and compulsive abnormal posture and movement pattern caused by neuromuscular regulation disorder will lead to secondary deformation and contracture of musculoskeletal system for a long time. There is a vicious circle between dyskinesia and abnormal posture, and the child's condition is getting worse and worse, which is bound to cause permanent damage. Therefore, it is very important to find the abnormal movement of children with cerebral palsy and correct it as soon as possible.
However, in clinical practice, we found that the early symptoms of many children with cerebral palsy are not as obvious as those mentioned above, especially in the neonatal period. They may only show atypical symptoms such as not sucking after birth, weakness in sucking or fatigue after sucking, refusal to eat milk, weak or continuous crying, weakness in head and neck, and head leaning to one side. Many parents who don't understand may be like Livzon. They simply think that the baby is short of calcium, so they try their best to supplement calcium and eat cod liver oil, which has little effect and sometimes even delays the illness.
So how can we find cerebral palsy early? First of all, parents must understand the laws of children's normal growth and development. The cerebral cortex of newborn children is immature, and the nerve conduction pathway and nerve fiber myelin sheath have not been fully formed. So the child's movements are irregular and uncoordinated. With the growth of age, the function of cerebral cortex is more and more perfect, and there are more and more conditioned reflexes, and infants gradually master new motor skills.
The development of infant sports follows certain rules:
1, from top to bottom. Hold your head up first, then hold your chest out, then sit, stand and walk.
2, from far to near: reach out first, then take things with both hands, and then take things with your fingers.
3. From coarse to fine. Pick things from palm to finger.
4. From disharmony to coordination, from generalization to centralization. For example, when a baby of 3 to 4 months sees a toy, his hands and feet will move, and he can catch it after 5 months.
5. From simple to complex. Draw straight lines first, then circles and figures.
So there is a song that says, "You can sit for thirty-four turns and six times, and you can walk for seven rolls and eight climbs." . Understand the normal development of children. If the child has the following situations, parents should be alert to the possibility of cerebral palsy: there are risk factors that cause cerebral palsy; 1 100 million can't reach the normal level of children's sports development in the above age stage; Abnormal posture and gait; Suppose that muscle tension is abnormal and tendon reflexes are hyperactive; Escape from primitive reflection (such as Moro reflection) and persist.
What reason is the baby's head and neck weakness? Newborn babies, whose bodies are still immature and not fully developed, are always accompanied by many problems and need the careful care of their parents. Some parents are worried when they see that their baby's neck can't be lifted, and they are afraid that their baby will have any other diseases. So what happened to the baby's neck?
First of all, parents should know that when the baby is born, the bones are not hard, soft and unsupported, so the baby's neck will have no strength. If this is the case, it is normal and parents need not worry too much. As the baby grows up, the neck will have strength.
Secondly, for a period of time after the baby is born, parents should not pinch the baby's neck hard, but try to let the baby lie flat on the bed. If you want to hold your baby, don't hold it for too long and try not to hold it vertically. Cross hug is a more appropriate way. This will be good for the baby's health. When the baby has passed this day, its neck bone development will be perfect.
Finally, it may be a factor that causes the baby's neck to be stuffy. If some babies suffer from bone diseases, it is very likely that there is no strength in the neck. At this time, it is necessary for parents to take their baby to a regular hospital for examination and then do some related treatment.