baby sleeping shaking head
Introduction
Introduction In infants and young children, there is abnormal shaking of the head during sleep, most of which is caused by calcium deficiency, inflammation of the ear, and some are normal.
Cause
Cause
The cause of the baby sleeping and shaking his head:
1. The shampoo is too little, or the hair is not rinsed when the hair is washed, and the baby's head is itchy.
2, the baby wants to take off the baby hair.
3. The baby is exercising the muscles of the neck.
4, may be sweating and itchy hair, it may also be eczema or inflammation in the ear.
Calcium-deficient shaking head: calcium deficiency, blood calcium decline, causing increased brain and plant nerve excitability, leading to baby muscle contraction, hand and foot spasm, sweating in the head and neck, wet head shaking back and forth on the pillow to form pillow baldness.
Examine
an examination
Related inspection
Infant health check serum calcium
Check and diagnose the baby sleeping and shaking his head:
In the early stage of mild calcium deficiency or calcium deficiency, it mainly shows symptoms of mental nerves, such as irritability, ignorance, crying, temper; sleeplessness, such as not easy to fall asleep, night terror, wake up early, crying after waking up More sweating, not related to the climate, that is, the weather is not hot, not much clothes, sweating when not sweating; because the sweat is too itchy, so the child likes to shake his head when lying down, time is long, the back of the head The hair at the place was polished to form a bald bald. Calcium deficiency is considered when these phenomena are more or less present. If you only sweat one, you can't diagnose calcium deficiency.
If the baby is shaking his head and is accompanied by scratching the ear and checking for redness, he should consider the possibility of inflammation of the ear.
Diagnosis
Differential diagnosis
Symptom identification of babies sleeping and shaking their heads:
Shaking his head at night usually starts in infants and young children. There are abnormal movements in the head during sleep, and a few are accompanied by whole body shaking. The cause of the disease is unknown. Some people think that it is related to psychosocial factors, including mental retardation, stress, and excitatory effects. And epilepsy, Lennox syndrome, eye disorders, multiple convulsions, swinging the body (the first 2-3 months of shaking his head, 6-10 months of swinging body) and other phase identification.
In the early stage of mild calcium deficiency or calcium deficiency, it mainly shows symptoms of mental nerves, such as irritability, ignorance, crying, temper; sleeplessness, such as not easy to fall asleep, night terror, wake up early, crying after waking up More sweating, not related to the climate, that is, the weather is not hot, not much clothes, sweating when not sweating; because the sweat is too itchy, so the child likes to shake his head when lying down, time is long, the back of the head The hair at the place was polished to form a bald bald. Calcium deficiency is considered when these phenomena are more or less present. If you only sweat one, you can't diagnose calcium deficiency.
If the baby is shaking his head and is accompanied by scratching the ear and checking for redness, he should consider the possibility of inflammation of the ear.
