Babies are born with the so-called fontanelle on the head that help the head is more or less is not difficult to pass through the birth canal, and in the first year of life allows doctors to examine the baby's brain. Due fontanelle, in the first year of life freely growing brain and neyrosonogrammy help examine the state of the brain and its development.
But the true purpose of the fontanelle - control and thermoregulation when the body temperature rises above 38 degrees, fontanelle occurs through cooling of the brain, eliminating the seizures and prevent edema brain.
At the head of the baby there is not one fontanelle, which is known to many moms - to temyachke, and there is also a small fontanelle in neonates. Located a little fontanelle in infants at the back and its size is considerably smaller than the large fontanelle and, as a rule, does not exceed 0.5 cm. Very often, small fontanelle is overgrown by the time the baby was born, and in premature babies it can be palpable until it is "real" predicted date of birth. Ate little fontanelle during the birth of a child is felt, then to 2-3 months, he also grows.
To large and small fontanelle overgrown with time, it is necessary to normalize the calcium-phosphorus metabolism in a child. Most often it is done by assigning vitamin D. When it is for size of fontanelle necessarily watching neurologist or leading neonatal pediatrician. although in principle fontanelle state can observe and mother herself, because over time, the fontanelle is narrowed, so overgrown.
