Infants head to the right may be a habitual manifestation, through the adjustment of the milk position, sleeping posture and other bad habits can be corrected, but also may be congenital muscular cervical inclination caused by infants head to the right, the need for timely consultation and active treatment can be corrected.
1. Habitual performance: infants often head to the right side of the milk, or sleep often keep lying head right position, can cause infants head to the right, by changing the position of milk, adjusting the sleeping position, to avoid the head often to the right to correct the method; you can often guide the baby to look at the left side of the direction of the baby’s head, the appropriate reverse direction of the training is conducive to the correction of bad habits.
2. Congenital muscular cervical strabismus: usually caused by contracture of one side of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, which can be manifested as abnormal head posture, neck lumps, limited neck movement, muscle pain and other symptoms. For infants less than 1 year old, non-surgical treatments, such as massage and manipulation, are usually used to promote the dissipation of the lump and prevent the contracture of the sternocleidomastoid muscle from continuing.
For infants over the age of 1 year, elective sternocleidomastoidotomy can be performed if necessary.
If the baby’s head is tilted to the right, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time to improve the ultrasound examination to assist in the diagnosis, and if there is any abnormality, active intervention can be carried out under the guidance of the doctor.