Why does a child roll his eyes up? Causes

As soon as an infant appears in the family, all the attention of the household is attracted to him. Parents worry every second for their baby and not only admire him, but also watch that nothing bad happens to the child. It is not surprising that a mother or father starts to panic if they notice that the child rolls his eyes up for no apparent reason.

The opinions of specialists on this subject vary, but there are several common reasons for the appearance of such symptoms. To determine them, you need to observe the baby.

How does this happen

Quite often a newborn baby rolls his eyes up for quite understandable reasons. For example, before going to bed or he just noticed something interesting on the wall. However, there are a number of serious ailments that can disturb parents: muscle hypertonicity, malfunctioning of the nervous system, intracranial pressure, or congenital malformation.

If the child rolls his eyes up, tilting his head back, then you need to carefully study the circumstances in which the symptoms appear:

• In a dream, during wakefulness or when a baby cries?
• Is the child lying on his stomach, back or turned to one side?
• At what age did the symptoms begin?
• In the process of how a child rolls his eyes up and to the side, he feels uncomfortable, cries, trembles or strains?
• Does this happen in a dream?

When you do not have to worry

If the baby does not cry and does not experience excitement, he does not have vomiting and high fever, in some situations such unnatural, at first glance, behavior, should not cause concern:

• During sleep, children sometimes throw their heads back. Most often, they behave like kids up to 4 months. In this case, it is only necessary to change the position of the infant sometimes, so that the neck muscles do not become numb.
• Very often, parents put a lot of different toys into the crib. Perhaps one of them was behind the baby's head. Since he does not yet know how to hold his head, the child rolls his eyes upward, trying to look back. Arrange all the toys in front of the baby so that he can reach them without difficulty.

• If a child just throws back his head, and it happens during whimpering, then this too is not a terrible sign. Most likely, it's just a little nervous breakdown, which will soon pass.
• If the baby throws his head back and rolls his eyes, then this may be an attempt to sit down or roll over on the stomach.

When you need to worry

If the kid has already turned a year and the child rolls his eyes up, then this can become a sign of certain disorders. In this situation, it is worth turning to a specialist. Also descends to the doctor is recommended if:

• In the process of rolling eyes, eyeballs do not go up, but down.
• The kid constantly cries and experiences anxiety.
• The baby unnaturally rotates the eye sockets quite often during the day.

If a child of 6 years rolls his eyes up, then this may be a sign of an initial stage:

• Nervous exhaustion or frustration;
• Epileptic seizures;
• Hydrocephalic syndrome;
• Retardation of development.

However, most often this can be the cause of hyperonus muscle or increased intracranial pressure. To determine more accurately, you will need an MRI of the brain and other tests.

Muscle hypertension

This syndrome is considered quite normal if the baby is not yet 6 months old. Since the child's muscles do not develop immediately, he can easily tilt his head, unable to keep it with the power of the cervical department.

If the crumb is more than half a year, you need to try to determine for yourself whether the child is suffering from muscle hypertonicity. For this you need:

• Put the baby on his stomach. If he lifts his head, pushing his shoulders and not using his hands, the muscles are in normal tone.
• Put the child on his back and pull it on himself by the handles. If at this moment the child rolls his eyes up, throws back his head and can not help himself, the muscles are also in the right stage of development.
• Take the crumb on your hands and bring it to the floor (as if putting on your feet). If he crosses the legs and he does not have a pacing reflex, then this may indicate an ailment.

In this case, you need to do with the baby gymnastics and massage him to normalize blood circulation and stimulate the normal development of the muscular apparatus.

Problems with ocular muscles

Hypertension of the eye muscles is also quite common. In this case, you can also help your child with special exercises. Most often, doctors recommend training your eyes in the following way:

1. It is necessary to take a bright toy and hold it in front of a crumb until it begins to focus on it.
2. Start moving the object in different directions, slowly approaching and detaching it from the face of the baby.
3. Ensure that the child observes the toy with his eyes, regardless of its position.

Also, it is recommended to hang a movable carousel with small cars or any other objects over the baby's crib. So he can train his visual muscles, when parents have no time to do exercises with him.

Increased intracranial pressure

Most often, to determine why a child rolls his eyes up, doctors are interested in the mother, whether she had injuries or problems during the gestation or birth of the baby. According to the practice, any complications (especially in late pregnancy) can affect the health of the newborn. If there were problems, then specialists very often diagnose ICP (intracranial pressure).

To determine that the baby suffers from this ailment, it is necessary to pay attention to the following symptoms:

• Restless sleep, constant moods (or, conversely, excessive calm and lethargy).
• Tremor of the lower jaw.
• Blue skin in the nasolabial area.
• Development of strabismus.
• The asymmetry of the skull and too rapid growth of the head.

This ailment can develop if the baby is injured by:

• Oxygen starvation in the womb;
• Umbilical cord, which wrapped around his neck during childbirth;
• Other complications.

However, do not panic, because increased intracranial pressure is diagnosed quite often and it can be the reason that the child rolls his eyes up. Komarovsky (known throughout the country as a pediatrician) has repeatedly said in his television programs that such problems are encountered in every second newborn. Nevertheless, this does not mean that you can relax and wait until the disease "dissolves" by itself. It is necessary to consult a doctor who will prescribe a course of vitamins and other drugs to the child.

If ICP does not begin to be treated in a timely manner, it can lead to mental retardation, blindness and paralysis.

What to do if the baby starts rolling his eyes

Absolutely one can say one thing - in no case should one engage in self-medication. Even when it comes to folk medicine, it is very important to understand that the internal organs of the crumbs have not yet fully developed, and those drugs that are considered harmless to an adult can harm a newborn.

Only a doctor can distinguish pathology from minor deviations. Most experts do not resort to aggressive treatment, limiting themselves to gymnastics and exercises, so do not worry that the baby will have to be stuffed with pills.

Symptoms requiring urgent medical attention

There are a number of symptoms in which you need to immediately enroll in a neuropathologist:

• The child began to eat very poorly, but often regurgitates.
• The kid throws his head back, lying on his side.
• The crumb does not move well.
• One of the limbs of the child "does not obey," and the second works normally.