Newborn children are the object ofattention of their young parents. Dads and moms catch every movement of the baby to be sure of its full development. So there are all sorts of anxieties and fears, when in the behavior of the baby there is something alarming, for example, the tremor of the chin, limbs or lower lip. It should be noted that these phenomena are very common, so they know about all or almost all. Let's see what it can mean if the lower lip is shaking in the newborn baby.
Immaturity of the nervous system
Tremor, chin and lower lip tremors stillcalled tremor. This is a medical term defining a phenomenon in which, due to the immaturity of the brain control centers of the newborn, uncontrolled movements of parts of the body occur.
Tremor. Do I need to heal?
Trembling lower lip, chin and limbs maybe caused by increased intracranial pressure in the head of the baby. Such a diagnosis can only be made by appropriate narrow specialists on the basis of a comprehensive examination. If a newborn shakes the lower lip to 3 months of its life, then this is considered a non-critical symptom. As mentioned, the reason may lie in the immaturity of the nervous system and adrenal glands, which are not yet able to control the release of hormones into the blood when emotions appear.
Features of therapy
Tremor in newborns up to 3 months should notcause parents to panic. If there is no problem with intracranial pressure, then this "ailment" is quite easily eliminated. Assign physiotherapy, massages, swimming in the children's pool, sedatives, vitamins. However, treatment should be agreed with the doctor, it's strictly forbidden to assign something to your child.
Why does the lip of the newborn shake? Other reasons
Among other things, the tremor of the lower lip can cause:
- hypertension of muscles;
- prematurity of the baby. These babies maturation of the nervous system occurs in a special way, because in the womb of the mother this process did not have time to be completed;
- Mother's stress during pregnancy. The adrenaline thrown into the blood through the placenta hit the baby, which could adversely affect the formation and development of structural areas of the brain;
- hypoxia during childbirth or pregnancy. The lack of saturation with oxygen also negatively affects the abovementioned body systems.