When the navicular head was 4 years old, his intelligence was normal and his baby's skull was very soft. If the baby stays asleep for a long time, it may lead to head deformity. The navicular head is an abnormality of the baby's head shape. Let's look at the boat head. He is 4 years old and has normal intelligence.
The navicular head is 4 years old and has normal intelligence. 1 the IQ of a boat-headed child is not necessarily a problem. Some children may have certain mental retardation symptoms, but some children will basically have no mental problems.
Navicular head refers to ossification of cranial suture, which is a congenital developmental abnormality. Because of the premature closure of many sutures during development, it may affect the development of brain tissue and can only develop forward and backward, so the navicular head will be produced.
Although the shape of the boat-shaped head is irregular and unsightly, if the situation is slight, it will generally not affect the IQ of the child. However, due to the oppression of brain tissue, some children may have brain tissue dysfunction, which may easily lead to epileptic symptoms, and may also lead to increased intracranial pressure, headache, nausea, decreased vision and other reactions.
You can't judge a child's IQ simply by the bow. If you suspect that your child has an IQ problem, you can go to the hospital for an IQ test. Usually you need to observe your child's physical symptoms to avoid adverse reactions.
When navicular head malformation occurs, we must go to the hospital in time, improve relevant auxiliary examinations, make clear whether there is brain tissue compression, and treat it as soon as possible to avoid serious complications and affect children's intellectual development. Surgery is the main clinical treatment. Reopening the cranial suture can enlarge the cranial cavity, eliminate the factors that hinder brain development, avoid affecting brain tissue development, prevent increased intracranial pressure, and improve the appearance of skull and face. Surgery is generally recommended within six months, and the effect is good.
The navicular head is 4 years old and has normal intelligence. Be careful of the navicular head when these symptoms appear.
Under normal circumstances, the brain weight of healthy adults is between 1400g and 1500g.
When a baby is born, the brain weighs only about 1/4 of that of an adult. At this time, although the brain of infants and young children is almost the same as that of adults in shape and structure, it is still far from functional. After birth 1~2 years is the rapid period of brain development. In the first year, the brain can develop to 1/2 of that of adults, and in the second year, it can develop to 3/4.
The brain grows very fast, and there is a great demand for skull capacity. Under normal circumstances, the gap between bone seams is large, which can well adapt to the growth speed of the brain. However, due to the premature closure of the sagittal suture, the space in the skull is narrowed, which not only does not have enough space for brain growth, but also may oppress the brain tissue of infants and affect their normal physiological functions.
When the navicular head compresses the brain tissue, children's cranial nerves will also be affected, which may lead to epilepsy, which is one of the most common symptoms of children with navicular head. Epilepsy is commonly known as epilepsy. The main reason is that the brain nerve suddenly discharges abnormally, causing abnormal brain function. When the navicular head compresses the brain tissue, it will also compress the cranial nerve, which may induce abnormal discharge of the cranial nerve and lead to epilepsy.
A few children may also have language and motor dysfunction, which is due to the narrow skull space, which affects the normal development of the brain.
In addition, navicular head often appears some other symptoms, such as headache and vomiting, which is the manifestation of intracranial hypertension. Some children will also have symptoms of prominent eyes, and even severe optic atrophy will cause blindness.
Because the navicular head will affect the normal development of the brain, it is very important to treat it as soon as possible.
These methods are needed to treat navicular head.
Surgery is the only way to treat navicular head.
The surgical treatment of navicular head first appeared in the 1960s, when the surgical method was to directly reopen the previously closed suture. However, the effect of this method is not ideal, it is easy to relapse, and the appearance of the head has not been improved very well.
After decades of development, the surgical treatment of navicular head has been greatly improved, and a variety of surgical methods have emerged, which can treat children well and have a good prognosis.
The most commonly used surgical method is to take out the skull with the width of 1.5~2cm from the previously closed sagittal suture, and at the same time take out the periosteum with the width of about 1~2cm on both sides, which can simulate the state when the sagittal suture is not closed and guide the child to enter a normal stage.
For younger babies, it is usually chosen to remove the strip-shaped bone fragments on both sides and behind the sagittal suture to form a gap similar to the word "human", which can directly reduce the longitudinal length of the skull. Because the younger baby has just entered the initial stage of development, shortening the longitudinal length of the skull as soon as possible is conducive to the normal development of the baby.
The operation is relatively troublesome when the child is older. As the child grows up, the condition will develop and the degree of deformity will increase a lot. At this time, even if the closed suture is reopened, it is difficult to adapt to the normal development of the brain and the overall shape of the skull cannot be restored. In this case, more complicated operations are needed, such as shifting, adjusting and reconstructing multiple free bone flaps in the skull, expanding the space in the skull and adjusting the overall shape of the skull, so as to restore the normal development of children and achieve curative effects.
No matter what kind of operation, the main purpose is to leave enough space for the growth of the brain and ensure the normal development of the child.
Because the brain of infants and young children develops rapidly, it has developed to 3/4 of that of adults at the age of 2, so the younger the child is during the operation, the better the recovery effect will be and the less the impact on its development will be. The ideal treatment time is within 6 months. When you are old, surgery can't remedy normal development, just improve your appearance.
Maintenance after operation is also very important, and good maintenance can improve the effect of operation.
It is necessary to change the dressing regularly and use antibiotics appropriately to prevent wound infection. Pay attention to replenish water, replenish blood loss during operation, and keep the balance of body fluids and electrolytes in the body. In addition, neurotrophic drugs should be used to promote the recovery and growth of nerves and try to avoid the sequelae caused by surgery.
Only by doing these operations and postoperative maintenance well can the treatment be completed and the navicular head be cured.
The navicular head is 4 years old and has normal intelligence. If the newborn has a navicular head, the cause can be further clarified through the following tests: first, genetic testing can be done. Some newborns have navicular heads due to genetic and metabolic diseases, so they can do genetic testing in time to find the mutated genes, so as to quickly identify whether there is genetic abnormality.
Secondly, head MRI can be done. If the head is abnormally developed, it will also cause a navicular head. Finally, vitamin D and blood calcium levels can be detected in time. Some newborns' navicular head is caused by vitamin D deficiency rickets, and the diagnosis can be made by measuring vitamin D and blood calcium levels in blood.
According to many studies at present, navicular head deformity has little influence on children's intelligence, even most of these children have no influence, and the main problem lies in their appearance. Therefore, many parents think that since there are no problems such as intellectual influence, can there be no surgery?
In fact, from our doctor's point of view, surgery is still recommended, because the appearance is unusually obvious, and children will inevitably be pointed at in the future, which will affect their psychological development. Although you may pay more attention to intelligence in the early stage, it is difficult to correct mental health problems in the later stage, and then it is difficult to correct the navicular head by surgery. The risk is far greater than that in infancy and the effect is poor.
Therefore, we suggest that the scaphoid deformity still needs surgical treatment. For children aged 3-6 months, relatively minimally invasive methods can be used to treat scaphoid deformity, while for children over 6 months, skull remodeling is the main method.
The influence of head shape on children?
1, affecting children's image
If the child's head shape is abnormal, such as oblique head or flat head, it will make the child's image look unnatural and even affect the proportion of facial features and cheeks.
Therefore, once parents find that there is something wrong with their child's head shape, they must correct it in time, otherwise the head shape may accompany the child for life and damage the overall image of the child.
2, affect the child's personality
If the child's head shape is not good-looking, it will inevitably be laughed at by others. When children have a sense of autonomy, they will also be dissatisfied with their head shape.
At this time, they will become inferior and feel different from others, so they are unwilling to communicate with other children and become more and more closed, leading to some defects in their personality.
3. It has nothing to do with children's IQ.
The child's brain is constantly developing, although due to family reasons, the child's head shape may be artificially flattened, or sharpened, inclined and so on.
But in their brain space, there is still enough space to cope with the continuous development of brain cells.
Therefore, no matter what kind of head shape a child has, it has no effect on their brain development.