Birthmarks, I believe everyone is no stranger, it may be a few moles with special arrangements, or it may be a small spot with color.
The baby's little hand has a piece of red, and the baby's grandmother will say: This birthmark is blessed! Booming! 」
As the best people in the new era, can we promote this feudal superstition? Of course not! This red is not a bless blessing, nor is it an ordinary pigmentation, but a type of hemangioma: port-wine stain, also known as bright red nevus.
Hemangioma has the word tumor, which sounds scary, like some incurable disease, but it is not a tumor in the strict sense, but an abnormal proliferation of endothelial cells.
In the past, hemangioma was a general term for two diseases, hemangioma and vascular malformation, but according to the latest hemangioma** guidelines, hemangioma and vascular malformation have been distinguished, and vascular malformations are not even tumors. So, this red spot was called a tumor in the past, but now it is not a tumor.
Two of the more common conditions that occur in babies and can be easily confused with birthmarks: the aforementioned port-wine stains and infantile hemangiomas.
Wine stains.
Wine stains are vascular malformations, which simply means that the capillaries grow more uniquely and do not follow the usual path.
As the most common vascular malformation, port-wine pigmentation is generally present at birth, commonly found on the head and face, and is congenital telangiectasia, **unknown. When the baby is young, the pigmentation is generally relatively flat, and as he grows older, it will gradually become deeper and thicker, and generally there are no serious complications, but if there is an impact on vision and intelligence, it needs to be distinguished from other diseases.
How to distinguish wine stains from common pigmentation birthmarks? Teach you a few tricks:
1.You can use your fingers to press the erythema for 1 second to 2 seconds, and when you release it, the pressure becomes white, and then it returns to red, which is a wine stain;
2.Observe whether the change in color and thickness is obvious with age, and the obvious change is the wine stain.
Infantile hemangioma.
Infantile hemangioma is a congenital disease of abnormal vascular hyperplasia, and the incidence is higher in girls, because of abnormal hyperplasia, so it has certain benign tumor characteristics.
This disease generally appears within a week after the baby is born, at first it is a flat erythema like wine stains, gradually increases with the age of the month, protrudes on the surface, and begins to gradually fade after 1 year old, and the regression rate can reach 70% at the age of 7.
For the baby's birthmark, parents should not take it lightly, they need to closely observe the growth of the birthmark with age, find the problem and seek medical attention as soon as possible, the sooner the better.
In particular, children with cephalic and facial onset may have a negative impact on their psychology and social life when they reach school age. But don't worry too much, the current best means are abundant, the efficacy is reliable, and it is trustworthy
However, even ordinary birthmarks may affect the appearance or cause psychological shadows to the child from an early age. Parents need to pay more attention to their children's psychological changes, and use modern medical means to solve their troubles when necessary.