What are the symptoms of fright in children?

It is actually very common for children to be frightened in real life. Generally, children will have obvious symptoms after being frightened, such as not showing much expression and continuing crying. Some children will even have green stools after being frightened, so parents should pay more attention. If the symptoms cannot be relieved on their own, they should seek medical treatment in time.

Parents should be particularly alert if their newborn's "startle reflex" shows the following symptoms:

(1) If a baby over six months old still has a clear startle reflex, there may be a problem with the brain's nervous system.

(2) If the startle reflex is not symmetrical, for example, if one arm does not react, there may be something wrong with that arm. The most common cause of this in newborns is "brachial plexus injury" or clavicle fracture.

(3) The startle reflex should be temporary and disappear in about a few seconds. If there is a continuous whole-body tremor, it is not normal.

As for the color of the stool (green), it may also be related to fright. The color of bile is yellow-green. Normal feces contain bile and are yellow in color. When the amount of bile increases, the green color will be intensified. The so-called "fright" may be due to the contraction of the gallbladder, which causes a sudden increase in the discharge of bile and stains the feces in the intestine, but this is only a temporary phenomenon; a minor fright does not affect the baby's health.