Common causes of purple lips in babies include cold, heart disease and lung disease.
1. Cold: babies kick the quilt at night or less clothing leads to cold, the body temperature is lowered to cause deceleration of the body’s blood circulation, which may cause the lips to be purple.
2. Heart disease: when the baby suffers from atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, tetralogy of Fallot and other heart diseases, the body’s blood circulation abnormalities can lead to purple lips. The symptoms of purple lips may be aggravated when the baby cries or is tired.
3. Lung disease: babies with severe pneumonia, etc., due to impaired lung function, the body has a different degree of hypoxia, there will also be purple lips phenomenon.
Baby lips purple may also be seen in other causes, such as airway foreign body. Parents who find their babies with purple lips are advised to go to the hospital in time to investigate the cause of the disease and choose the appropriate treatment to avoid aggravation of the condition.