Use in medicine such a method as neurosonography, allows you to echographically visualize the baby's brain from birth to a year. The examination of the newborn's NSH is carried out through natural openings - fontanelles (large anterior and occipital posterior).
Indications
For newborn babies, neurosonography is a completely harmless method and, in addition, painless. The essence of the method is that the ultrasonic waves sent by the sensor of the device pass through the brain tissue of the crumb, then are reflected, again received by the device and displayed on the screen. Up to what age do children make neurosonography? Until the fontanelles are overgrown. Usually this occurs closer to 12 months. The point is that ultrasound can not go through the bones.
This examination is prescribed in cases when the baby exhibits signs of CNS damage. The procedure is also justified for prematurity, injuries, diseases and inflammatory processes of the brain, hypoxic and ischemic lesions, stigma of disembriogenesis.
The deciphering of the neu sonography of the child's brain, performed by the specialists, makes it possible to identify violations and evaluate them. As neurosonography is done on the fourth day of life, it is possible to eliminate or correct the detected disorders at early stages. During the study, experts assess the size, area and contours of the ventricles of the brain, the plexus of large vessels and their condition.
Given that neurosonography shows even the most insignificant brain damage, it is harmless and painless, it makes sense to conduct a survey of every newborn, because after the overgrowing of the fontanelle this unique opportunity will be lost. After the baby turns a year, the pathology can be detected only with the help of a tomography procedure. And for her, the child should be completely immobilized, which is achieved only with anesthesia.
Children NSG can be done as often as required. However, neither parents nor doctors need to prepare a baby for the procedure. To assess the neurosonography in children is enough for only 15 minutes!
Norms of neurosonography
The most active development of the nervous system occurs at a very early age. When a baby is born, the cells of its brain are formed only by a quarter. In the first six months, another 40% are ripening, and by the 12th month the brain is formed by 90%. That is why in infancy it is important to assess the health of the baby.
In general, the norms of neurosonography in children consist in the fact that during the study no pathology in the brain tissues was detected. Record in the kid's card "Pathologies are not revealed" - this is the norm.
Pathologies
Unfortunately, sometimes parents have to face the fact that after the neurosonography it turns out that the health of the crumbs is not all right. This study can reveal such pathologies as cysts of different etiology (arachnoid,
A number of these pathologies remain hidden and in adulthood, but in order to avoid problems in the future it is worthwhile to identify and correct them in time.
The cost of this procedure on average is 25 dollars (about 1000 rubles). If neurosonography is carried out with the inclusion of Doppler research methods that allow to detect changes in the character of blood circulation in the brain of a newborn, the cost increases by 50%.