A 4 1/2 year old baby’s navicular head will usually not be able to be adjusted.
Baby boat-shaped head is a kind of head on both sides of the head is narrower, longer anterior and posterior diameter, left and right diameter is narrower, the back of the head protrudes as the characteristics of the head, mostly due to the premature closure of the bone seam.
Newborns just born skull has not yet ossified completely, fontanel has not yet closed, the head shape can also be adjusted through the sleeping position adjustment (stereotyped pillow towel roll assisted sleep on the back), wearing a skull corrector, strengthen the nutrition and other methods to slowly adjust over. Under normal circumstances fontanel closure not more than two years old, and four and a half year old baby fontanel completely closed into a seam, head shape fixed, can not be adjusted through the above methods.
Baby navicular head should be found early, early treatment, if the baby is four and a half years old found navicular head should be timely to the hospital, in the doctor’s diagnosis under standardized treatment.