What causes facial hemangioma in children?

Hemangioma is a benign tumor in the human body. It is a proliferation of capillaries in the body. It usually appears on the face, which puts a certain burden on the baby's appearance. However, it does not have a very serious impact on the body. So, what is the situation with facial hemangioma in children? Let me do some analysis for you.

Common symptoms of hemangioma in children include the following types: capillary hemangioma, cavernous hemangioma, mixed hemangioma, and racemose hemangioma. According to clinical data, the onset of hemangioma may be related to increased estradiol levels in the body.

The main clinical manifestations are abnormal color changes such as red, blue, purple, and purple-red, swollen lumps on the local skin, and tortuous and dilated blood vessels visible on the surface of some cases.

Hemangiomas in children usually appear at birth or within 1 to 2 months after birth, often occurring on the head, face, and neck, affecting the baby's appearance and causing concern for parents. With patient care from parents and close cooperation with doctors, active treatment can cure the disease. However, dangerous childhood hemangiomas, such as those in the eyes, throat, or extremities, require special attention.

Children's hemangiomas are usually divided into a proliferative phase, a stable phase, and very rarely a regressive phase. If the hemangioma is in a stable period, it is easy for parents to ignore it and think that the hemangioma will disappear on its own.

1. Injection treatment

The treatment for this type of hemangioma in children is to inject a sclerosant into the tumor. Commonly used drugs include 5% sodium morrhuate, bleomycin, bleomycin, glucocorticoids, etc., which have the risk of causing local skin necrosis, infection, and scar formation.

2. Cryotherapy

In medicine, the cryotherapy commonly used refrigerants in the treatment of pediatric hemangiomas include liquid nitrogen, nitric oxide, dry ice, hyperbaric oxygen cryotherapy, chlorinated paraffin, etc., which are mostly used to treat superficial hemangiomas of the trunk and limbs. There are risks such as incomplete treatment, local scar formation, and color change.

3. Radiation therapy

Radiation therapy is also known as radionuclide therapy. The commonly used treatments for children's hemangiomas are 32P, 90Sr, X-rays, 60Co, etc. However, it is rarely used clinically because it has high requirements for reasonable arrangement of radiation dose and time, has a great impact on the baby's bone development, and increases the risk of cataracts and cancer.

The manifestations, symptoms, and treatments of facial hemangiomas introduced above have different understandings and manifestations at different stages. Hemangiomas generally appear six months after the child is born, so during this period, parents must pay attention to observe the child's physical condition, and it is best to detect and treat it as early as possible.