What are the symptoms of high muscle tension in newborns?

The symptoms of high muscle tone in newborns are relatively easy to detect. This symptom is neither serious nor simple. It can be seen that high muscle tone in newborns is a relatively troublesome disease and has a relatively large impact on infants. So, what are the symptoms of high muscle tone in newborns? How can we detect whether a newborn has high muscle tone? People need to take this issue seriously. Let’s take a look at the introduction below.

1. Sometimes babies will have muscle tension. There is no objective instrument to measure whether the muscle tension is too high. It depends entirely on the doctor's touch and experience. Sometimes the baby's lack of cooperation may be misjudged as a manifestation of high muscle tension. For example, during the examination, the baby is unwilling and his legs are stretched straight. In addition, when the child stands, he always stands on tiptoe, but generally the child will slowly put his feet flat. However, babies with high muscle tension will always stand on tiptoe like that, and you may not be able to put his feet flat even if you press down with your hands.

2. Babies with high muscle tone have tighter muscles than normal children and are more difficult to move. When changing diapers, most children's legs should be able to open to 120 degrees, but babies with high muscle tone cannot open their legs. A baby over four months old will jump when standing on an adult's belly, but a baby with high infantile muscle tone will only stand straight and dig his toes into the adult's flesh; when a baby with high infantile muscle tone is taken a bath, he will clench his fists and his whole body will be stiff when approaching the bathtub.

There are many manifestations of high muscle tone in newborns. Two of them are introduced above. One is instrument detection, and the other is observation of the baby's limbs. These two methods are relatively easy to detect, so if you have a baby at home, you can use this method to diagnose the baby. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen nutritional supplements for newborns, which can reduce the chance of neonatal hypertonia.