What should I do if my child has a chicken chest?

If your child has chicken chest, you can take general treatment, medication and surgery to improve it in time. 1. General treatment: If the symptoms of chicken chest are not serious, it can be improved through sports, such as chest expansion exercises, sit-ups, running and other methods to help improve the symptoms of chicken chest. 2. Drug treatment: children with chicken chest is usually caused by rickets due to malnutrition, and it is recommended to supplement nutrition in time, mainly vitamin D and calcium. Under the guidance of the doctor, oral vitamin D₃, calcium citrate tablets and other medications. And pay attention to let the patient more sunshine, in order to help synthesize vitamin D in the body. 3. Surgery: If the patient’s thorax protrudes forward obviously, and accompanied by chest tightness, shortness of breath, upper respiratory tract infection and other symptoms, the symptoms are more serious, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to take surgical treatment, such as upper and lower with vascular tip sternotomy, thoracic rib sinking surgery and other methods of treatment.