What's wrong with the child shaking his head?

Nowadays, many parents often find that their children often have the habit of shaking their heads. It depends on the time of day. If it is when they are sleeping, it is possible that they are covered with too many quilts, making it difficult for heat to dissipate, causing shaking their heads. Because of skin diseases, eczema appears in the hair, and pressure during sleep causes shaking of the head. There are also 7-8 month old babies, who are in the stage of imitating adult movements, and will also have many small movements.

Parents often report that their children always shake their heads. What’s going on? Do you need to go to the hospital?

1. Keep shaking your head while sleeping.

If the temperature at home is too high or the child is covered with too many quilts when sleeping, it will cause the baby to feel uncomfortable and cause him to shake his head.

2. Some babies have skin eczema and often feel itchy on their skin, but they will not scratch it with their hands and will shake their heads to rub the itch.

3. Some babies sweat a lot or lack calcium. The pillow is often wet and uncomfortable, and they may also shake their heads.

4. Shake your head to express resistance. At this stage of 4-6 months, you should add complementary foods to your baby. When the baby does not accept the new food, he will resist by shaking his head or pushing it away with his hands to indicate that he does not want to eat.

5. Self-training of vestibular function. Another reason why babies like to shake their heads at this stage is that they are exercising their vestibular function. Just provide a safe environment for your baby to practice.

6. Imitation: At 7-8 months old, babies have a strong ability to imitate. Sometimes adults will use shaking their heads to teach babies "no". When babies just learn this action, they will be happy to repeat and imitate it.

7. Some babies like to express their feelings about the rhythm of music by shaking their heads. Shakes head or twists body when hearing rhythmic music.

8. As the baby grows older, his sense of independence becomes stronger and stronger, and his language comprehension becomes better and better, but his language expression cannot fully keep up. When expressing his joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, he will also use shaking his head.

9. Otitis media or otitis externa:

If your baby often shakes his head, cries while sleeping, scratches his ears, and has a fever, redness and swelling of the external auditory canal, water or pus discharge from the ears, and refuses to touch his ears, you should take your baby to the hospital for treatment in time.

10. If there is earwax in the baby's ears and the child's ears are uncomfortable, he will shake his head and need to go to the hospital for treatment. Do not blindly treat it yourself to prevent eardrum damage.