What are the symptoms of torticollis?

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When you find that your baby always leans his head to the same side when lying flat, and turns his head to one side when sitting, and it is difficult to turn his head and neck, then your baby may have torticollis! Torticollis, commonly known as "crooked neck", is a quite common surgical disease in infants. This disease usually occurs in young children. If they do not grasp the critical moment of treatment before 6 months old, asymmetric head and face will affect their appearance for a lifetime. What are the symptoms of torticollis? Now let me tell you something.

What are the symptoms of torticollis?

First, if a baby suffers from torticollis, it usually has the following characteristics: the baby's head always leans to one side, even when using his favorite object to lure him, he can't twist to the other side, and the baby's chin is facing down to the shoulder of this side, and his eyes are looking at the other side.

Second, infants with torticollis face, whether it is left or right or size, will be found to have obvious asymmetry, which is quite different from ordinary infants. There is a massage of the baby's neck, you can clearly find that his neck movement is limited.

Third, the above is the appearance of observation, in fact, can also be identified by ultrasound, especially for children with congenital muscular torticollis, ultrasound can accurately distinguish with other neck diseases, such as cystic lymphangioma, cervical lymphadenopathy and so on.

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Therefore, infants suffering from torticollis must not be taken lightly, because the baby is in the stage of development, once the position of the neck stereotypes, it is not easy to correct after growing up, so it must be found in the baby less than 6 months and timely treatment!