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Symptoms and treatment for clavicle fracture in newborns

Often children are born with birth injuries, including a clavicle fracture in newborns is quite common. The doctor diagnoses the violation of the integrity of the clavicle is almost always immediately after the birth of a baby. But sometimes it becomes noticeable only after a few days, since there hematoma with edema.

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Causes and symptoms of a fracture

The bone of the clavicle is a tubular bone. On the one hand it joins the chest, and on the other with the scapula. Depending on the type of damage, possible displacement of the broken part. This happens under the weight of the muscles.

Most often in childbirth collarbone is not broken completely, but lightly breaking and in this slightly flexed left. The second part of the clavicle remains intact - it holds the periosteum. This injury does not cause displacement of the bones, and if this happens, it is insignificant.

If a bone breaks, the periosteum still holds and does not allow the bones to shift. Newborns seldom there are fractures with displacement.

The causes of clavicular fracture in a newborn baby can be as follows:

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  • fast deliveries - kid for a small period of time is not able to do all the necessary physiological action, therefore, takes the wrong position before exiting the birth canal;
  • the doctor used the manual method or tools for the coup of the child;
  • the fruit has a weight that does not correspond to the narrow pelvis of the mother;
  • fetal presentation at birth is wrong.

When the clavicle fracture in a newborn baby can experience the following symptoms:

  • hematoma, sometimes not very visible;
  • on palpation you can feel a slight crunching and crackling in the place of a bruise;
  • swelling - in case of damage to the deep tissues;
  • deformity where there is injury;
  • a little upset sometimes motion with his hand.

The signs of fracture may occur in the poor appetite of the child. The baby refuses the breast. As a result, is not gaining the desired weight. Immunity may decrease, therefore there is a risk of infection, any infection. Such injuries in children often disappear without consequences. If the sick child will be provided with professional treatment, the fracture will not have a negative impact on the musculoskeletal system. The doctor will diagnose the disease immediately after the examination. But to confirm the injury additionally appointed radiography.

How to treat the newborn has a broken clavicle

title="the Use of the bandage when the clavicle fracture" alt="Use bandage when the clavicle fracture">Immediately after birth, the child looks the doctor directly in the delivery room. If the doctor suspects a broken collarbone, assigns radiographic examination. After that, the exact diagnosis.

The physician should reassure mom and dad that their treatment will help and the child will have no future problems, including difficulties with hand movement.

The child's treatment begins with a hand privinchivayut to the body. In the armpit enclose the wool. To avoid blueing of fingers, the bandage is not tight. About a week later the fracture heals and the cast is removed. Another month hand requires fixing. Birth injury rarely requires surgical intervention.

In hemorrhages in the skin of the baby prescribed vitamin K. This medication is administered intravenously for 3 days. Your doctor may prescribe special ointments that are able to anesthetize the site of injury, have a hemostatic effect and regenerates the skin. A doctor warns parents that the child's treatment must be extended after discharge from the hospital. Within 2 weeks, the child should not lie on the side where the injury has occurred. Sleeping baby can only be on the back or on the healthy side. Mom and dad must realize that the self of the child not only does not make sense, but dangerous complications. For example, the baby's collarbone may not heal for a long time. The vast majority of cases the treatment ends favorably for children and without operations. Growth and development of the baby this injury with timely treatment does not interfere.

What to do after treatment

massazh dlya vosstanovleniya posle pereloma kluchicyTo quickly healed injury, and restored locomotor activity, doctors recommend physical therapy after the primary treatment. In the first place is electrophoresis. It helps to ensure that drugs penetrate through the skin to the site of injury, i.e. a broken collarbone.

The doctor may prescribe baby magnetic therapy: the injured place is the impact of magnetic field of different frequencies.

Kid gets and physical therapy. Simple exercises may make and mother. For example, soft movements: the hand of the baby need to take away from the body and return to its original position.

Is appointed and the massage. But it only carries the specialist. It is a professional and experienced employee able to choose an individual complex little patient. Massage in this case is not only won't hurt the baby, but will help the wound to quickly heal. As the pen is healed, the parentscan massage the site of injury.

The doctor will tell the mother about the diet of the child suffering from the trauma. If the baby is breastfed, the mother should eat more foods that contain lots of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, that is, the elements that contribute to the regeneration of bone tissue. But the food mothers should be under the supervision of a physician as some substances contained in the products can cause poisoning of the child.

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It is impossible to predict any fracture, especially such as a fractured clavicle in the newborn.

If provided with timely treatment, and the parents fulfil all recommendations of the doctor, the injury will not leave behind any effects, neither physical nor aesthetic.