Spring is an immediate protection for the baby, and it was invented for a reason. The main function of the fontanel is to help the children in the most rapid adaptation in our world.
Functions that the fontanel fulfills
- The shock absorbers of the bones of the skull and the newborn are the fontanels themselves. A spring can protect the infant's vulnerable brain from various external influences and injuries.
- By means of fontanels, the skull has the possibility of constriction, which facilitates the task in the labor activity, when the child comes out through the birth canal.
- It can be concluded that the fontanel is a kind of indicator of various diseases. In fact, for example, with increased intracranial pressure of the baby, the fontanel has a feature to rise above the surface of the skull, thus preventing the adult generation from danger. According to the condition of the fontanel, an experienced doctor can give a description of the birth as they passed.
- Known is the fact that the human brain has the ability to grow in the first year of life. Spring helps the skull to cope with the load. Thus, the fontanel provides the brain with the necessary area for the development process in a natural way.
- In the event that a child's body temperature rises above thirty-eight degrees, the baby's brain is cooled through the fontanelle.
- Spring can reduce the shock, all because it is a shock absorber of natural origin. After all, all children, as soon as they learn to crawl, then walk, begin to learn the world in the form of cones and grazes, which they receive at the time of the first steps or active crawling. Also, it is worth noting that if the fontanel was absent, then any, even the most insignificant blow could lead to the most unpredictable results.
- With the help of the fontanel you can characterize the very development of the baby.
Diagnostic importance of fontanel
Already from the first days to the first year of life, he undergoes various examinations and tests. It is necessary to pay attention that such a need is necessary, since any pathology that is found in younger age will be much easier to treat and indeed, there are some diseases that are treated only in the early stages of development.
It is most optimal to undergo an examination of the brain by ultrasound. They also use ineyrosonography to detect the presence of any type of tumors or bleeding, including trauma, as well as the presence of their consequences. It can be concluded that the fontanel is a kind of health window for the child.
Large and small
There is a large fontanel on the child's thread, which has a size of about 2х2 centimeters. The fontanel itself has the shape of a rhombus and has similar dimensions only at the time of the first month after the birth of the child. After a while, the fontanelle begins to gradually close, to be joined by the converging bones of the skull.
To the one-year age of the baby, the large fontanel must grow completely. In the event that this did not happen, do not be upset. A breathing hole of a small size will necessarily overgrow with time, and exceptions to medicine have not yet met.
On the back of the child's head is a small fontanel, it is relatively small in size, about one centimeter in the square. In general, the fontanel of this kind is already close to the birth of the baby.
But as for preterm or not mature babies, the small fontanel is palpable well. And after about two months, the fontanel is closed.
In what time period disappears
Proceeding from the fact that each organism is individual and has its own different features, the fontanel is closed at different times for everyone. It is impossible to set a clear date, since everything is individual.
The exchange of phosphorus-calcium character in the child plays an important role in the process of closing the fontanelle, as well as the very content in the blood of similar components, in how much they are present in the tissues.
It is very important nutrition, which the child received, being the mother's mattress, through the placenta. That is, the products that mom's mother fed during pregnancy play a role. In the event that the vitamin and amino acids were deficient, the growth of the fontanel will take a long time. And in the event that the vitamins and multivitamins were in excess, then on the contrary, the fontanelle will overgrow a little too quickly, thereby preventing the normal development of the brain of the baby.
It is very important to note that during pregnancy, any vitamins and nutrients should enter the body in reasonable amounts, including calcium. An important task of the obstetrician-gynecologist is to follow the similar process of feeding the pregnant woman, by taking timely tests and examinations.
Closing of the fontanel in the late period
Later, the closure of the fontanel can result from a lack of calcium in the body, which can also lead to a disease like rickets.
Rickets, in turn, is a serious enough disease that leads to a change in bone tissue, which can be distorted by the ideation. External signs of the presence of rickets is a change in the gait of the child, whose legs eventually become like a wheel. On the head, the hair is subjected to fallout, thus forming a bald patch in the back of the head.
Symptoms of the disease include insomnia and sweating in abundant quantities. This is reflected not only in the physical, but also in the mental development of the child as a person.
To prevent the emergence of rickets, it is very important that the child receives vitamin D, of course, in a measured amount by means of a complex of multivitamins. It is also worth noting that this vitamin is also found in the sun.