Baby head shape corrector

After a newborn is born, parents should prepare a small pillow for the child. The pillow must be suitable because it determines whether the baby's head can sleep well. Because the baby's head is relatively soft, the long-term pressure may cause the head shape to change during sleep. So how should the baby's head shape be corrected?

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Head shape correction programs have twenty years of clinical experience abroad, and more than hundreds of thousands of families have benefited from it. In addition, head shape correction programs abroad can be reimbursed by commercial insurance, which shows that head abnormalities are generally considered to be an unhealthy disease abroad that requires treatment. If foreign pediatricians find that a child has an abnormal head shape, they will recommend referral to a professional head correction doctor.

In contrast, in China, head shape correction is a new thing not only for parents but also for many doctors. Many people do not pay enough attention to the health of skull shape and have a misunderstanding, thinking that a baby's crooked head shape does not need to be corrected and that it will naturally get better when the baby grows up after just a little sleep at home.

First of all, to solve this problem, we need to understand why the child's head is abnormal? The causes of infant skull abnormalities are mainly divided into two categories in medicine: one is congenital malformations such as craniosynostosis or genetic and metabolic abnormalities (including osteogenesis imperfecta or abnormal development of skull plates and cranial sutures), hydrocephalus, and pathological torticollis; the other common type of head abnormalities are caused by external factors such as poor sleeping posture, intrauterine squeezing, and birth canal squeezing (also known as birth trauma).

Now that the cause of the child's abnormal head shape has been found, the next step is to figure out how to treat it. For babies with head abnormalities caused by the first type of reasons, it is usually not caused by sleeping, nor can it be restored by sleeping. Please go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible. Many of them require early surgical treatment before considering the issue of head shape correction. Another type is the more common head abnormality in life, which is mostly caused by improper sleeping posture such as plagiocephaly, brachycephaly, and scaphoid head.

For these three head shapes, we divide them into mild, moderate and severe abnormalities. This requires going to the hospital for a special scanning examination and making a judgment based on the corresponding values. Only when the child's head shape abnormality reaches moderate or severe levels will the doctor recommend head shape correction for the child and give corresponding correction guidance. Currently, special places in Nanjing, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Dalian and Shenzhen have carried out head shape abnormality screening and scanning projects. Nanjing Maternal and Child Health Hospital and Peking University Third Hospital were the first in the country to launch an infant head abnormality scanning and examination project. They have accumulated more than two years of clinical experience and successfully helped many babies with abnormal head shapes restore their head shape. Parents can choose the nearest place for medical treatment according to their needs.

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