Symptoms of torticollis in children

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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! What is infantile torticollis? Torticollis, commonly known as "crooked neck", is a quite common surgical disease in infants. This disease usually occurs in young children, if you do not grasp the critical moment of treatment before 6 months old, asymmetric head and face will affect the appearance of a lifetime, can not be careless ah. Now let's talk about the symptoms of children's torticollis.

Symptoms of torticollis in children

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 items 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 other places.

Second: infants with torticollis face parts, whether left or right or the size will be found to have obvious asymmetry, and the general baby has a big difference. 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 cervical cystic lymphangioma, cervical lymphadenopathy and so on.

matters needing attention

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 we must be found in the baby less than 6 months and timely treatment!