The child's face turns black. Do you know what's going on?

Parents should always pay attention to their children's health. When they find that their children's face is dark, they must take it seriously. For children, if diet or nutritional deficiencies are ruled out, it may be a sign of a certain disease in the child.

1. Reasons why children's faces turn black:

1. If the baby's face often turns dark, the new mother needs to pay attention to whether the baby suffers from pernicious anemia or "cyanotic congenital heart disease."

2. Convulsions may also cause the baby's face to turn dark. Your baby may be in a convulsion, which normally stops on its own within 5-15 minutes. After the baby recovers, the baby needs to be taken for further physical examination to determine if there are other causes.

3. When babies are crying, they often lose consciousness and fall asleep, which can easily cause their face to turn black. At this time, the new mother should calm and comfort the baby's emotions.

4. If your baby has convulsions, it may be caused by calcium deficiency. Anemia that causes a baby's face to turn dark is often pernicious anemia and requires prompt hospital examination.

2. What to do if a child's face turns black:

Nursing plan

First of all, "cyanotic congenital heart disease" will affect the baby's treatment method and recovery due to the degree and duration of the baby's cyanosis. If it is not treated promptly and correctly, it may be very dangerous. Therefore, new mothers should send their babies for examination as soon as possible to determine the cause of the disease.

Second, a crying baby may sometimes be unable to take a breath after taking one. At this time, under the care of parents, the baby should be comforted immediately and appropriately, and the current ongoing activities (such as injections) should be decisively terminated. Generally speaking, the baby will be able to take the next breath, thus improving the dark complexion.

Finally, protect your baby's delicate body, take your baby out for activities frequently, breathe fresh air, and pay attention to providing your baby with proper nutrition. For example, symptoms of cramps may be caused by calcium deficiency. Anemia that causes a baby's face to turn dark is often pernicious anemia and requires prompt hospital examination.

Indications for medical treatment

The darkening of the face caused by illness is often more serious. When this kind of condition occurs and the cause cannot be determined, the best way is to go directly to the hospital.

In order to determine whether the diagnosis of a disease by looking at the baby's facial complexion is accurate, mothers must not only be careful and avoid guessing, but also have certain professional knowledge. It is recommended that you take your baby to see a doctor. If you are unsure, you must take your baby to the hospital for professional examination.

3. The baby's face turns black when crying. The reasons are:

First: When a child cries, it is a prolonged exhalation rather than an inhalation, so the longer he cries, the less oxygen enters his body. Although there will inevitably be intermittent inhalations, it is still too little compared to the exhalations.

Second: Under normal circumstances, at the end of exhalation, about 2/3 of the air remains in the alveoli. Even if you stop inhaling for a short time, the blood circulating in the lungs can still bring the oxygen retained in the lungs into the blood. However, when a child cries violently, the air in the lungs is forcefully expelled from the body, and the amount of oxygen remaining in the lungs is limited, so the amount of oxygen that the blood can obtain is naturally reduced.

Third: In fact, a violent cry represents a strenuous exercise, and the body's oxygen consumption will increase a lot compared to a calm state, so the oxygen content in the blood is also relatively low.

Fourth: Crying will increase the pressure in the lungs, reduce blood circulation, and naturally reduce the amount of oxygen obtained. In addition, part of the venous blood flow is mixed into the arterial blood flow, so the oxygen content in the blood of the limbs of the body drops sharply.