Recently, on a number of shopping platforms, a baby helmet that claims to be able to "correct the baby's head shape" and "sleep out of the perfect head shape" has quietly become popular. Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter investigated and learned that its price ranged from tens of thousands to tens of thousands of yuan, and the price of resin helmets known as "imported from the United States" was as high as 28,000 yuan.
Are baby helmets selling "look anxiety" or can they really improve the shape of your child's head? Some pediatric experts said that this kind of corrective helmet may affect the development of the baby's skull, and long-term wear will cause irreversible damage to the child's cervical spine.
A number of moms reflected
Discomfort occurs in infants after use
"Babies are born with some deviations in the head, and they always sleep on the right side of the head during the neonatal period, and then the head deviation becomes more and more serious." In order to let the child have a perfect head shape, Zhang Fei chose to let the baby wear a corrective helmet. Because this corrective helmet is very wrapped and very stuffy, eczema is very serious after the baby wears it for a while.
The reporter observed that this baby head correction helmet has a plastic shell with foam padding inside.
"After wearing it for three weeks, I re-tested it and found that the baby's head was more off." Zhang Fei introduced, "Usually the baby's left eye is squeezed by the helmet, can not be fully opened, the two eyes become large and small eyes, and the baby will cry when wearing the helmet." Zhang Fei said. Under various factors, Zhang Fei finally gave up letting the baby continue to wear a corrective helmet. Fortunately, the baby has now learned to roll after 4 months, so he can slowly adjust the baby's head shape by adjusting the sleeping position.
In a number of feelings about the use of infant correction helmets, although some mothers said that the child's head shape became better after wearing it for a period of time, more than one mother said that the baby correction helmet would grind the baby's head, the child "cried all night", and the mother said, "The child was ground to the subcutaneous tissue damage and swelling appeared blood spots." In addition, there is a mother who said that "the width of the child's face has not changed, the forehead has become smaller, and the whole face is not coordinated."
The sale price is not cheap
Use effect blur
On a social platform for daily sharing, someone described the principle of baby correction helmets as follows: "When the child's head grows rapidly, a shaping mold is put on the outside, so that the head can only grow in the specified place, and finally it is successfully shaped, just like the japanese square watermelon and ginseng fruit." ”
The reporter learned that it is expensive to customize such a "corrective helmet" for the baby. The reporter called the staff of an american company known as an infant head correction helmet as a customer, and the other party said that the cost of a corrective helmet was 28,000 yuan, but the specific recovery time depended on the degree of the baby's head shape deviation and the baby's growth rate.
The other party said that the earlier the baby head correction helmet is used, the better the effect. In addition, if the first helmet can no longer meet the baby's growth needs, then the second helmet needs to pay another 28,000 yuan. In order to have a full effect, after adapting for about a week, the baby needs to wear a helmet all day and cannot take it off while sleeping.
Sleeping with a helmet, will the child be uncomfortable? What are the side effects?
"The only drawback is that this helmet is relatively poor breathability, the baby will sweat, if you do not take it off for a long time, eczema will appear, and there will be dermatitis in severe cases." The staff member said, "The early stage is very troublesome, because the baby will sweat more, so every one or two hours to take off the helmet to wipe the child's sweat and clean the helmet." The staff stressed that the helmets they produced were "regular medical devices" and that "the correction effect is certainly very good, but it requires parents to pay energy, just like changing the baby's diapers, repeatedly removing the helmet for the baby to clean." ”
It is easy to cause irreversible damage to the cervical spine
Doctors recommend not blind use
"It is not recommended to wear this type of corrective helmet." Yu Quanjun, a doctor at the Pediatric Massage Center of the Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, told reporters that wearing this infant head correction helmet will restrict the child's head activity. The baby's cervical spine is fragile, wearing a corrective helmet or an inappropriate correction pillow may cause irreversible harm to the baby's cervical spine, "if the helmet is very tight, it will also cause pressure on the child's head and affect brain development."
"Most babies don't need orthosis at all, and even if the parent doesn't interfere with his head shape, it will slowly become normal."
Yu Quanjun reminded that at present, there are many kinds of correctional instruments in the name of children, the market is also very chaotic, and corrective medical devices are suitable for corrective surgery and serious pathological diseases, and normal babies do not need to wear them at all. If you suspect that the baby has craniotype abnormalities, be sure to ask a professional doctor for scientific diagnosis and standardized treatment, and do not blindly wear a corrective helmet.
Extend the survey
The market for correctional products is chaotic, and many merchants are unable to provide certificates of conformity
Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point reporter searched for the keyword "baby head shape correction" from the shopping website, and a number of related products immediately appeared. Depending on the material and brand, the price ranges from tens of thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, of which high-selling products can be as high as 10,000 or more per month. The slogans of various businesses are also various, which is very "intimidating".
Some merchants advertise their baby correction pillow as "Japanese space hose black technology", and its products are developed by the "German Royal Nobel Scientific Research Institute", but the reporter's inquiry found that there is no institutional information about the "German Royal Nobel Scientific Research Institute".
The reporter proposed as a customer to check the certificate of conformity of the product, and many merchants could not provide any proof of product quality. (Reporter Guo Chunyu)
Source: Qilu Evening News