Children shaking their heads may be related to physiological factors, play, Tourette’s syndrome and so on.
1. Physiological factors: younger babies because the head is heavier, and the neck muscles are not fully developed, while the nervous system can not fully control the movement of the muscles, the coordination of the various muscle groups is poor, so it can not steadily support the head, head shaking phenomenon.
2. Play: Some babies can attract parents’ attention and laughter when shaking their heads, and often repeat the action of shaking their heads, thinking it is a kind of funny thing.
3. Tourette’s syndrome: a sudden, brief, repetitive, stereotyped muscle twitching episodes, manifested by blinking, squeezing eyebrows, making strange faces, shrugging shoulders, nodding, lower limb twitching, etc., intensified by emotional tension, disappearing during sleep.
Children shaking their heads may also have other causes, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or treatment.