Why does the child keep shaking his head?

As babies grow up, their learning abilities will become stronger and stronger. When they see their family members around them doing some actions, they will curiously learn to do them. However, careful parents will find that some children always shake their heads. Sometimes it is not that the babies are expressing rejection, but more of an uncontrolled shake of the head, which will inevitably make parents worried. If you observe the baby shaking his head for a period of time, you should first consider that this is a learning behavior of the baby, but if you find it for a long time, parents should be cautious.

Some children often shake their heads, even bang their heads, and sometimes sway their bodies. This is normal, just like children like to be held and danced. This is the stimulation that children need for the development of their vestibular system. The vestibule is an organ that maintains balance. Most babies will go through a stage of vestibular "self-stimulation", during which they will jump up and down and shake their heads and bodies. 3% to 15% of infants will also hit their heads against other objects. Vestibular self-stimulation usually begins when infants are 6 to 8 months old, which is also the time when vestibular sensitivity reaches its peak.

This behavior may disappear in a short period of time or last for a longer period of time. Most children disappear between 1 and 1.5 years old. Intellectual development is cumulative. The vestibular system is one of the earliest senses to develop and accounts for a large part of an infant's early sensory experience. These experiences may play a key role in integrating other senses and movements, and therefore also affect higher-level emotional development and cognitive abilities.

It may be a normal physiological phenomenon for babies to shake their heads, and parents do not need to worry too much. However, calcium deficiency (i.e. rickets) in babies can cause shaking their heads. At the same time, babies also have symptoms such as crying, restless sleep, excessive sweating, and night terrors. Acidic sweat irritates the skin, causing babies to shake their heads or rub their heads back and forth on the pillow, forming a circle of hair loss behind the head, which is called "baldness on the pillow." If this is the case and not treated in time, skeletal and muscular lesions will occur. At the same time, attention should be paid to changes such as pectus excavatum and pectus pigeonus. Babies after 8 months will have square heads, delayed fontanelle closure, late teething, and "X" or "O" shaped legs when they start walking. You can give your baby calcium tablets and cod liver oil, and get more sun exposure. Finally, go to the hospital to check the blood calcium level to make sure, and supplement calcium correctly under the guidance of a doctor.