Babies move their hands and feet after drinking milk, which may be caused by physiological factors such as not eating enough or defecation, or may be caused by nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets, cerebral palsy and other diseases.
1. Physiological factors: the baby’s hands and feet move about after eating milk, may be because it is not full, so through the hands and feet move about to express dissatisfaction. In addition, the baby will feel discomfort in the buttocks after defecation, at this time will be relieved through the hands and feet fidgeting.
2. Nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets: Nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets is caused by the mother’s malnutrition during pregnancy, the infant’s growth rate is too fast, and insufficient sunlight. Affected children often show crying and irritability. In addition, the baby’s nervous excitability increases, at this time will also appear after drinking milk hands and feet fidgeting.
3. Cerebral palsy: Cerebral palsy is usually caused by perinatal brain injury, abnormal brain development and postnatal brain injury, and the main manifestations of the affected children include backward motor development, abnormal muscle tone, hand and foot movement and other symptoms. If your baby has cerebral palsy, he or she will show symptoms of fidgety hands and feet after drinking milk.
There may be other reasons for babies to move their hands and feet after drinking milk, so it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, complete the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or therapy under the guidance of the doctor.