The best time to remove six fingers of infants

Not all babies are healthy when they are born. For some pregnant mothers who do not take good care of their babies during pregnancy, their babies will have various deformities, hexadactyly being one of them. Hexadactyly means that a baby has six fingers. To solve this problem, surgery is necessary, and the best time for surgery is before the age of 3. Here is some relevant knowledge about Six Finger Syndrome.

The cause of the disease is unknown. Most cases are caused by genetic factors and can be inherited from one generation to the next. In addition, the impact of environmental factors on embryonic development can also lead to this disease, such as certain drugs, viral infections, trauma, stimulation from radioactive substances, and especially modern industrial pollution can all become teratogenic factors. Damage to the early differentiation of the limb bud blastema is an important cause of hexadactyly.

2. Clinical manifestations

The disease is obvious at a glance. Children are found to have extra fingers at birth. The types and severity of deformities vary. Some are only connected to normal fingers by a narrow cutaneous pedicle that wraps the blood vessels and nerves; some have nails, bone joints, tendons and blood vessels and nerve bundles, and have certain finger movement and sensory functions, which makes it difficult to choose surgery; some even have severe deformities such as "crab claws", with poor finger development, small and deviated fingers, which seriously affect the appearance and function of the hands. In addition to the physical effects, children and parents often have psychological problems. Psychological concerns will affect the child's psychological development, learning and social life, and even future employment, work and marriage.

Surgical resection is the only treatment. Sometimes the procedure is simple, requiring only the base of the polyp to be removed and the incision to be sutured; sometimes it is more complicated, requiring tendon transfer and joint capsule reconstruction. When the polyp occurs in the joint, tendon and joint capsule repair is required, and surgery should be performed before the child is 3 years old; when the polyp occurs in the epiphyseal area, bone and joint correction is required after the polyp is removed, and surgery should be performed after the epiphyseal development stops.

1. Avoid marrying close relatives.

2. Strengthen pregnancy care and nutrition.

3. Avoid respiratory tract infections, gastrointestinal infections, and viral infections such as rubella, measles, chickenpox, and mumps during pregnancy.

4. Avoid exposure to radiation, drugs and other factors that may cause embryo teratogenesis.