The baby's ribs are protruding on one side

When babies are very young, their bodies are prone to some strange changes. Because the baby's body parts are not fully developed, they often develop body deformities due to some bad habits. For example, some babies may have protruding ribs due to physical weakness and lack of nutrients. But if it is not a genetic reason, there should not be any big problem. Why is there protrusion of ribs on one side of the baby?

The reason why the baby's left rib bulges

One is simple rib deformity; the other is caused by rickets. The vast majority of children's rib valgus is caused by rickets. It is recommended that you take your child to the hospital and ask the doctor to confirm whether the child has rib valgus and whether there are other clinical signs of rickets. Then, do a blood calcium test and diagnose whether the child has rickets based on these comprehensive conditions. If rickets is diagnosed, treatment is required. The amount of calcium and vitamin D supplementation should be determined based on the results of laboratory tests. At the same time, pay attention to helping your child do chest expansion exercises, which can help improve chest deformity caused by rickets.

What should I do if my baby's left rib is bulging?

Knee pad raising and lowering exercise: Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, relax your body, close your eyes slightly, and gently raise your arms forward to the top of your head while inhaling. Pause for a moment, let your arms fall naturally, accompanied by deep exhalation. Do this several times a day, each time for 10 minutes.

Do push-ups or raise your arms in front of you with dumbbells 3 to 4 times a day, each time for 10 minutes.

Somersaults on single and double bars should be done on an empty stomach every morning, but do not overexert yourself.

Jogging exercise helps to enhance visceral activity, expand breathing volume, and improve chest hypoplasia.

How to care for the baby's left rib bulge

For bone changes such as rib valgus, also known as rickets, doctors often recommend a vitamin D injection of about 300,000 units for more serious cases. But in reality, parents cannot find it anywhere because the demand for this injection is low and it has been out of production for a long time, so it is impossible to find it. The only domestically produced vitamin D is Yingkangli from Shanghai, which is an oral solution with about 150,000 units per bottle. In fact, if there is no gastrointestinal problem that cannot be absorbed, or the situation is extremely serious, oral administration is better than injection. You can also take 5000-10000 units of vitamin D orally every day depending on the severity of the condition, and change the preventive dose to around 500 after one month. Since there is no separate vitamin D in China, it is available in Europe and the United States, and you can ask someone to send it to you.

The above describes a more serious situation. However, for children nowadays, if they get enough sun exposure, have cod liver oil added to their breast milk (because breast milk is low in vitamin D), or have enough vitamin D in their milk powder (infants need 400-500 units of vitamin D per day), they will generally only suffer from a mild calcium deficiency at most, unless they have long-term chronic diarrhea and malabsorption, in which case the condition will be more serious.

The latest statement is that the treatment of rickets does not require such a high dose. For mild cases, 1000-2000 units per day, and for moderate cases, 2000-5000 units are enough (early statements were that the minimum therapeutic dose is 5000 units), and after one month, change to a preventive dose.

If the child is only mildly calcium deficient and has trouble sleeping (there are many reasons for poor sleep, and calcium deficiency is only one of the more common ones), and the above two substances are not easy to obtain, you can also use cod liver oil, Icosin or Beterin, 2-3 tablets, in which vitamin A and D are 3 to 1. Generally speaking, when it comes to vitamin AD, people worry about overdose poisoning because these two are fat-tolerant vitamins and will exist in the body. But in fact, to achieve an overdose, a dosage of at least tens of thousands of units is required (some say A is 40,000 per day). D1500 or A4500 per day is safe, and change to D500 after one month. Of course, if you need to use D5000, you cannot use cod liver oil because the A is too high. You must use Inconli or separate D. If the poor sleep is indeed caused by calcium deficiency, the effect will be obvious after supplementing vitamin D.

Another type of cod liver oil is the cute liver oil pills from Japan, which are expensive and not very good because the A and D in it are the natural ratio of 10 to 1 in liver oil and have not been processed into a more suitable ratio. But I think this also shows from another aspect that Vitamin A 5000 is safe (because if this kind of oil is used, when D is used in a preventive dose of 400-500, A reaches 4000-5000). At the same time, you can supplement about 200-300 mg of calcium.

Infants can be given vitamin D from 1 month to 1 year old, 400-800 IU per day, and gradually reduced to 400 IU per day after 3 months; sunbathe every day; feed properly, add complementary foods on time, and eat more foods containing vitamin D.