Data for parents: hemangioma - what is it?

Over the past few years, cases of neonatal and very young children have become more frequent cases of an unpleasant looking and deeply troubling ailment called hemangioma. What this is, not all parents know, and its external manifestations frighten many to severe depression. Let's try to understand what this ailment is.

General information and reason

"Tumor" is a term that drives most people into a stupor. However, we recall that tumors are evil and benign. Hemangiomas are the latter. They appear due to the modification of the vessels. Moreover, violations of their development occur in the child before birth, inside the mother. Roughly speaking, the vessels begin to overgrow, and hemangioma is formed. What this is and what the vascular changes begin with, is still not really known. There are only unproven assumptions at the level of conjecture. On the verge of almost complete confidence in the quality of the cause are called viral infections (and among them ARI), borne by the expectant mother during pregnancy until the sixth week. Even among the risk factors there are some medicines, but which ones - statistics are not enough. Bad ecology among the causes of cancer is always mentioned in the forefront - in the case of hemangiomas, it is also not forgotten. And finally, there are hormonal changes (both moms and her children). However, we recall that all these hypotheses have not been proved. Like a clear idea: hemangioma - what it is: such "punishment from above" for some sins of parents or a common illness like a cold, because of which you should not worry much.

Do I need to delete it?

Great consolation can be that the defect in the development of blood vessels in most cases passes by itself to a maximum of ten years. An alarming sign can be a sharp expansion of education, which is a hemangioma. What is this - a temporary phenomenon or a signal for the need for surgery - can only be determined by a doctor. The most careful observation of ugly red spots is necessary when they are located in the upper half of the head. Such placement may threaten that the tumor (albeit benign) will begin to germinate through the bones of the skull. Then the child is threatened with hemangioma of the brain, and this is very, very serious.

In other cases, if the neoplasm grows slowly and does not penetrate deep into the tissue, it can be considered a kind of small cosmetic defect - a mole or a wart. In the removal of no need to. Although if the hemangioma is in a conspicuous place, the child will have a purely psychological child. And if you consider that this unpleasant disease most often chooses the area of the head (in the second place is the inguinal part of the body, which is also unpleasant, but already in adulthood), in any case, in due course it will be necessary to decide whether to remove it or fight with a peculiar attitude Society to people with pronounced defects.

Do not forget that hemangiomas are harm, not only to the psyche, but to overall health. Vascular damage, depending on which part of the body they belong to, can lead to deafness, asthma, blindness, and blood clots, which leads to very sad results.

conclusions

Do not panic, even if a hemangioma in children is detected . Photos, presented in the article, no doubt, do not please, but practice shows that life is often kinder than what is expected of it.