Shaking your head

Introduction More common in chorea, often occurs in children between the ages of 5 and 12, more women than men. More than 2 to 6 months after streptococcal infection. The rheumatic fever inflammation invades the central nervous system, including the basal ganglia, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and striate, with a slow onset. Chorea is one of the main clinical manifestations of rheumatic fever. However, other tests (anti-streptokinase test) showed a lot of positive. The chorea is mostly dominated by girls. Most of them are around 5 to 12 years old.

Cause

The cause of shaking the head and turning neck is more common in chorea, which is closely related to rheumatic fever (rheumatoid fever). Later, rheumatoid carditis is also caused. This is caused by infection with group A streptococcus, which takes a long time to develop (and which also has rheumatic fever first). Most of the anti-hemolytic streptococcus O and C protein reactions in the blood disappeared rapidly.

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Check and diagnose the head and neck:

The involuntary movement of the chorea is characterized by eyebrows and eyebrows, shaking the head and turning the neck, and licking the tongue; the limbs are characterized by straightening and flexion, adduction and abduction, pronation and supination, and other rhythmic alternating movements. When mental stress and fatigue are aggravated, it disappears when you sleep.

Differential diagnosis

Symptoms of confusing head and neck:

In infants and young children, there is abnormal shaking of the head during sleep, most of which is caused by calcium deficiency, inflammation of the ear, and some are normal. In the early stage of mild calcium deficiency or calcium deficiency, it mainly shows symptoms of mental nerves, such as irritability, ignorance, crying, temper; sleeplessness, such as not easy to fall asleep, night terror, wake up early, crying after waking up More sweating, not related to the climate, that is, the weather is not hot, not much clothes, sweating when not sweating; because the sweat is too itchy, so the child likes to shake his head when lying down, time is long, the back of the head The hair at the place was polished to form a bald bald. Calcium deficiency is considered when these phenomena are more or less present. If you only sweat one, you can't diagnose calcium deficiency.

The head shakes, the head swings and shakes, and the symptoms cannot be self-made. Also known as shaking his head. A symptom of shaking and shaking the head. The involuntary shaking of the head, how fast the frequency, the degree of shaking his head depends on the emotional changes of the person, the degree of concentration of attention, and the symptoms are aggravated when the emotion is excited or nervous, and vice versa. Symptoms worsen when attention is focused, and vice versa. Symptoms appear after waking up, and symptoms disappear when people sleep.

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