Babies love to shake their heads

Baby’s head shaking may be a normal condition, but it may also be caused by disease factors or environmental factors. Parents should always pay attention to whether the baby is accompanied by other abnormal reactions while shaking his head, and promptly consult a doctor to identify the causes and improve the symptoms. The main reason 1, the normal situation: infants appear obvious habitual love shaking head, considered a normal phenomenon in the process of vestibular development, with the growth of months, development gradually mature, this phenomenon will slowly disappear; 2, disease factors: baby lack of vitamin D or calcium deficiency, resulting in rickets occurs, sweating more, while the cerebral cortex excitability increased, the baby will appear love shaking head action. When the head, face and neck are itchy because of eczema or prickly heat, the baby will shake his head to relieve the discomfort. When there is eczema in the external ear canal, cerumen in the ear or otitis media, the baby feels itchy, painful and other discomfort in the ear, and will also shake his head to relieve the symptoms; 3. Environmental factors: the temperature of the baby’s sleeping environment is too high, the quilt cover is too thick or the pillow is too hard or too high, causing the baby to sleep uncomfortably, and he will shake his head to express his discomfort. Treatment 1, parents can be guided by the doctor, to the baby appropriate supplement vitamin D, calcium, methylcobalamin, glutamine, feed the baby more soy products, eggs, fish and other foods to help supplement vitamin D, can help prevent rickets, but also can play a role in nerve nutrition; 2, parents should usually take the baby to the outdoor sun, can help promote the synthesis of vitamin D, the body to replenish sufficient Vitamin D and calcium, is conducive to improving the phenomenon of baby shaking head; 3, for baby eczema, otitis media, etc. caused by the love of shaking head, should promptly consult a doctor to treat the original disease, in order to relieve the baby discomfort. Note that since some babies cannot express their intentions correctly, parents should pay attention to record the environment in which the baby shakes its head when it appears, so that the environment and behavior that causes the baby to shake its head can be found successfully and avoided as much as possible.