CHILDREN KITCHEN - A potentially dangerous act for young children
According to statistics, currently in the United States, there are 1200-1400 children being treated because of trauma due to too strong shaking. 25% of them have died from brain injuries.
Cradling baby shaking
Shaken Baby Syndrome, a medical term used to refer to signs and symptoms caused by vibration or strong impact on a child's head. This often happens when the caregiver plays with the baby too hard or vibrates hard to comfort the baby when the baby is crying for too long. Baby shake syndrome is considered one of the most common causes of death in children, especially babies under 2 years old.
Shaking a baby can cause unpredictable damage
Die u What will happen when she was shaking too hard?
Sometimes it's just because your baby is enjoying it when he is tossed up high or thinks that the more he is holding the baby, the stronger he or she will make him cry faster. But these actions can completely make the baby hurt that we are very difficult to recognize at first.
During the infancy period and the toddler period, the skeletal muscles, especially the neck bones of the baby are still very weak and immature. When a baby is shaken, the baby is not able to control his head to move in back and forth like adults. The brain is vibrated back and forth in the cranial cavity, leading to bruising of brain tissue, some serious cases can cause brain hemorrhage or retinal hemorrhage.
Parents, please be careful with shaking your baby
If parents notice that their baby has symptoms such as:
vomiting, fatigue
annoyed, lethargic
difficulty sucking, difficulty swallowing
reduce appetite
difficulty breathing, convulsions
excessive drooling
limp arms and legs
Right now, parents need to carefully consider, monitor and promptly take their baby to the doctor to avoid a pity happening. Babies, after being treated because of the shaking syndrome, often find it difficult to return to normal development. Babies can have visual, hearing, developmental retardation, or even plant life disabilities.
So how to prevent tremor syndrome in children?
Caring for children is hard work that requires both parents and caregivers to be very patient and calm. Depression, frustration when faced with persistent cries of the baby is easy to lead to seemingly harmless behaviors but cause unpredictable danger.
Parents and caregivers need to recognize their own stress levels during child care. Taking a deep breath, finding a quiet outside corner will help relieve tension attacks.
The perfect shaking of the baby can happen when the baby is fussy
Learning about ways to help your baby soothe irritability, reduce crying will be the best way to prevent negative behaviors of caregivers. It's as simple as changing a clean diaper, taking the baby out for a walk, carrying the baby, helping the baby to burp, giving the baby a pacifier, reducing the strong light or loud noise where the baby lives, ...
And most importantly, absolutely do not shake the baby too strongly in any case, change the position of holding the baby suddenly, do not hold the baby too hard and do not juggle the baby while playing.
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