Muscular hypotension

What a joy - in your family, finally, a new person has appeared. Small, fragile, but so beloved and desired. But what is this with the baby, why are his hands and legs so relaxed, because the kids, up to 3-4 months old, tend to curl up into the same comfortable lump as they were in the mother's abdomen. The answer is simple, the baby has a syndrome of diffuse muscular hypotension. And because of what it originated and how to get rid of it - let's talk further.

Where does the syndrome of muscle hypotension come from?

Whence at the kid, apparently, healthy mum normally passing or taking place all pregnancy, such unpleasant disease appears?

Among many factors, by the way, this includes the skill of midwives, the behavior of the parturient mother, and the medicines that mother drank during the interesting period, and obstetrics.

They can also add diabetes mellitus , disruptions in the thyroid gland or pituitary gland and heart failure. And many more modern women suffer from the habit of smoking and drinking beer, and, unfortunately, do not abandon it even during the bearing of the child.

But still, most often the cause of the syndrome of muscle hypotension are birth trauma, lack of oxygen and nervous system diseases of the baby, which somehow appeared during the fetal development of the fetus.

Symptoms of muscle hypotension syndrome

Speaking about the clinical picture, it should be noted that muscle hypotension can be of two types - diffuse and local.

  1. The local form is manifested by weakness and decreased muscle tone of only one handle, or one leg, or legs and handle on one side of the body.
  2. Diffuse muscle hypotension , in contrast to the local form, captures all muscles without exception. And the pose of the baby resembles the posture of a frog that has disappeared.

Methods for treating muscular hypotension

Since both local and diffuse muscular hypotension is just a syndrome of some internal disease, then its main treatment, basically, medical and is directed first of all on elimination of the basic illness. Cure the cause, the effect will disappear.

In addition to medicines, in the treatment of muscle hypotension, massage, exercise therapy and other physiotherapy procedures are prescribed. Naturally, an experienced pediatrician should select the drugs, their dosage and auxiliary procedures. But if a woman values ​​her health, protects herself during pregnancy and carefully approaches the choice of the hospital, then nothing to cure in 99.9% of cases.