Symptoms of habitual torticollis

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If a baby always sleeps with his head tilted, then the baby is likely to suffer from torticollis. At the same time, torticollis is a disease that will seriously affect the growth and development of the baby, so every parent has to help his child deal with torticollis. What are the clinical symptoms of torticollis? Now let's talk about it.

Symptoms of habitual torticollis

After the baby was born, the mother could find that the baby's head tilted to the affected side, the face rotated to the healthy side, and the mandible pointed to the healthy shoulder. After 2-3 weeks, the torticollis was more obvious. Turning the head to the contralateral side is obviously limited, and those with mild symptoms should be observed carefully. With the growth and development of the children, the symptoms become more and more serious.

Generally, the neck mass can be touched after birth or within 2 weeks after birth, which is located in the middle and lower segment of sternocleidomastoid muscle, especially in the right side. The mass is fusiform, without tenderness, and generally reaches the maximum after 1-2 months, and then gradually shrinks to complete disappearance. In some of these children, the mass does not disappear and muscle fibrosis and contracture occur, causing torticollis.

Congenital muscular torticollis is not treated effectively in the early stage, and facial deformity will appear after 2 years old. The main manifestations were asymmetry of face, asymmetry of distance between bilateral external angle of eye and angle of mouth, shortening of distance between affected side and increasing of healthy side. The position plane of the affected eye is lower, because the two eyes are not at the same level, it is easy to produce visual fatigue and visual loss. The healthy side was round and full, while the affected side was narrow and flat. Compensatory scoliosis may occur in the cervical spine. In addition, the whole face of children, including nose and ears, can also appear asymmetric changes.

matters needing attention

Every parent can avoid the above symptoms in their children, so that the children can grow up healthily. At the same time, when a person suffers from torticollis, he must change his sleeping posture in time, so as to avoid the deterioration of the disease and protect himself.