Contents:
- Medical Video: Never Shake a Baby - Phoenix Children's Hospital
- What is that shaken baby syndrome?
- What are the symptoms and signs of the baby experiencing shaken baby syndrome?
- What kind of action can cause a baby to experience shaken baby syndrome?
- What are the factors that make your baby more at riskshaken baby syndrome?
- What is the impact of shaken baby syndrome?
- Isshaken baby syndrome can be prevented?
Medical Video: Never Shake a Baby - Phoenix Children's Hospital
Often babies cry and fuss without stopping, then you try various ways to calm them, such as carrying, rocking or shaking babies. But do you know the effort to calm the crying baby can actually make the baby experience shake baby syndrome?
What is that shaken baby syndrome?
Shaken baby syndrome is a head injury that results from violence in infants and toddlers (both intentionally and unintentionally) and causes babies to experience serious brain injuries. This syndrome can occur because parents or caregivers swing or shake the baby too strong, causing the baby to experience injury to the brain.
Babies still have soft brain tissue and weak neck muscles. In addition, their veins are still very smooth. Shaking the baby hard, even though it is accidental, will cause shock to the brain and trigger bruising, bleeding, and swelling in the brain. Even shocks that are too hard can cause the baby to experience a broken bone, eye damage, broken spine and neck.
Shaken baby syndrome or a baby's head injury due to excessive shock can occur in children under 2 years of age, but it is not impossible this can happen to children until he is 5 years old. However, in most cases, this syndrome is experienced by babies aged 6 to 8 weeks, when babies cry and fuss very often.
What are the symptoms and signs of the baby experiencing shaken baby syndrome?
If your child experiences shaken baby syndrome the symptoms that usually occur are:
- It's hard to wake up
- Experience tremors throughout the body
- Trouble to breathe
- Gag
- Appetite decreases
- Convulsions
- Coma
What kind of action can cause a baby to experience shaken baby syndrome?
Shake baby syndrome occurs as a result of parents or caregivers shaking, carrying, while swinging the baby too hard. Without parents knowing, they often do various things that can endanger the health of the baby, such as swinging the baby too hard to calm the crying baby. Or too anxious to see their baby so they don't realize that they have made the baby's head shake very hard.
Not that you can't play and carry your child. Normal interactions that you do with your baby, such as swinging the baby while holding it or positioning the child on the foot, then swinging your legs gently, not making shaken baby syndrome This happened. Most cases shake baby syndrome occurs because parents or caregivers feel stressed, depressed, and depressed because the baby cries constantly and does not stop, so they try hard to calm the baby by shaking and swinging the baby too hard.
What are the factors that make your baby more at riskshaken baby syndrome?
For parents and caregivers, it should be noted that there are several factors that can increase the likelihood shaken baby syndrome occurs in the baby, namely:
- Parents or caregivers are stressed
- Young or single parents
- Violence occurs in the household
- Parents or caregivers are used to consuming alcohol and abusing drugs
- Severe depression experienced by parents and caregivers
- Unstable family situation
In addition, from some cases it is known that adult men - whether father or babysitter - tend to result shaken baby syndrome compared to a mother or caregiver.
What is the impact of shaken baby syndrome?
Severe shocks, even if they occur for only a few seconds, can cause damage to the baby's brain. In fact, many babies die from experiencing this syndrome. Babies who have survived this syndrome are more likely to experience a number of conditions that interfere with their health throughout their lives such as:
- Experiencing blindness
- Loss of hearing ability
- Brain development becomes slow, experiences learning disorders and behavior
- Mental retardation
- Convulsions
- Cerebral palsy or brain paralysis
isshaken baby syndrome can be prevented?
Yes, of course this syndrome can be prevented by paying attention to parenting or caregivers. When the baby cries and can't keep quiet, maybe you and your caregiver will try hard to calm him down. But the thing to remember is to still treat the baby gently. No matter how to carry, swing, and play with the baby gently, it will not cause shaken baby syndrome.
If indeed you or your caregiver is in an unstable state, such as high emotions, stress, stress, and depression, ask for help from relatives or other caregivers to replace you to temporarily calm the baby until the situation is stabilized
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