Symptoms of torticollis in newborns

If you do not start timely treatment, the ailment will progress. Strabismus, delay in physical and speech development, limp, deafness, neurological diseases - that's what awaits the child.Krivosheya in newborns requires compulsory treatment. Photo: Getty Signs of torticollis in newborns are obvious to pediatricians:

• the head of the child is constantly turned in one direction;
• turn in the opposite direction is difficult, completely to make its kid can not;
• The trunk is curved along the vertical axis, one shoulder above the other;
• the head seems to be thrown back, the nape is skewed in the direction of the turn;
• The face looks asymmetrical, one eye can be constantly narrowed.

The baby's mother, if she does not have a medicaleducation, may either not notice the disease, or confuse its symptoms with manifestations of other pathologies of development. For example, there is a neurological, or a false torticollis, and it is simply impossible to distinguish it from an orthopedic problem for a layman.

Why there is torticulia in newborns

The curvature of the neck is explained by severalcauses, depending on which distinguish the main types of the disease: the muscular, articular, neurological, bony torticollis of newborns. In the photo they all look the same, but more often than not, we are talking about congenital pathology: abnormal development of the sternum-mastoid muscle. It is responsible for the symmetrical arrangement of other muscles of the neck and sternum. Causes of pathology:

• an unsuccessful position in the fetal bladder when the head was pressed against the wall of the uterus;
• birth trauma, as a result of which the muscle tore and lost elasticity;
• intrauterine inflammation of the muscle, which caused its degeneration and shortening;
• other congenital malformations of the musculoskeletal system.

To understand what led to the development of pathology andhow to treat it, requires consultation and orthopedic, and a child neurologist. This can be done 2 weeks after the birth of the baby. Until that time, pediatricians do not make any forecasts. However, the mother should know: if the child is born with breech presentation, then he is at risk for krivoshe. If the baby was pulled for the head, the muscle could break. Krivosheya is not uncommon in pediatric practice. The disease requires compulsory treatment, as it leads to the development of serious physical and neurological pathologies of development. It is also useful to know:

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