Can children have acupuncture?
Many parents often have fear when they hear that they want to give their children acupuncture. "Can a child prick a needle?" "How to give a child an injection?" Will ask a series of questions.
According to the clinical practice of acupuncturists for many years, it is proved that children are different from adults in acupuncture and injection. Children's bodies develop in an all-round way from birth, and their shapes, structures and functions are developing rapidly and continuously to maturity and perfection. The younger they are, the faster this development will be. At the same time, in the whole process, the child's resistance is low, that is, the immunity is low, and it is often easy to give birth. On the other hand, children are easy to recover after birth. According to these characteristics, we often use small needles and short needles to ease the fear of needles for children and parents.
The needle should be shallow and deep, otherwise it will easily cause the child to cry and not cooperate with the doctor, thus damaging the skin and muscles. For children with needle retention, the needle retention time can be reduced as much as possible according to different course of disease. The disadvantage of leaving the needle on the child for a long time is that it often causes the child to cry and struggle, and it is easy to bend the needle and it is not easy to pull it out. These unnecessary injuries and fears often make children afraid to stick needles again, affecting continuity. When selecting acupoints, we can choose according to different situations, so as to achieve the best effect with as few acupoints as possible.
We also pay attention to the technique of acupuncture. We need to insert the needle quickly, which can reduce the pain when inserting the needle and do a small lifting and twisting. When the needle is inserted, it will be released immediately.
General pediatric acupuncturists will have a good grasp of the above characteristics, so that children can get the ideal effect.
Acupuncture treatment of common diseases in children
1. Nervous system: facial paralysis, cerebral palsy, brachial plexus palsy, sciatic nerve paralysis, peroneal nerve paralysis, tibial nerve paralysis, sciatic nerve, intercostal muscle spasm, diaphragm spasm, children's night terrors, sleepwalking, Tourette's syndrome, hyperventilation, hysteria, headache, dizziness, language disorder and brain hypoplasia.
2. Digestive system: diarrhea, dyspepsia, galactorrhea, dyspepsia, anorexia nervosa, vomiting, epigastric pain, gastroptosis, intestinal spasm and constipation.
3. Cough and asthma.
4. Cardiovascular system: palpitation, arrhythmia, paroxysmal tachycardia, hypertension and hypotension.
5, urinary system: nervous frequent urination, enuresis, urinary retention.
6, musculoskeletal diseases: stiff neck, torticollis in children, gastrocnemius spasm, low back pain, joint pain (rheumatoid arthritis, joint sprain)
7. Infectious diseases: sequela of poliomyelitis, polyneuritis, mumps, colds and whooping cough.
8. Acupuncture first aid: convulsion in children, fever in children, heatstroke and drowning.
9. Pediatric surgery and dermatology: appendicitis, paralytic intestinal obstruction, proctoptosis, biliary ascariasis and measles.
10, Pediatric Ophthalmology: acute conjunctivitis, myopia, strabismus, sty.
1 1, Pediatric Otolaryngology: Neurodeafness, Tinnitus, Deafness, Rhinitis, Nosebleeding, Pharyngitis, Tonsillitis, Meniere's Syndrome.
12, Pediatric Stomatology: stomatitis, toothache.
Pediatric acupuncture and moxibustion
Acupuncture for children is more complicated than that for adults, and doctors and parents of children must cooperate closely to do acupuncture well. In this process, you usually need to answer the following questions:
1, doctors should concentrate and control the number of needles to prevent children from crying and struggling to cause unnecessary harm.
2. Parents of children should fix their children's limbs under the arrangement of * * * to prevent their children from moving and struggling, so as not to affect acupuncture.
3. When the fontanelle of children is not closed, it is not advisable to acupuncture at the acupoints on the top of the head. Acupuncture is not suitable for areas with infections, ulcers, scars or tumors on the skin. It is not advisable to directly or deeply stab the acupoints in the chest, ribs and back organs, so as not to hurt the organs and prevent accidents.
4. When needling acupoints such as Fengfu and Dumb Gate in the eye and neck, and acupoints in the spine, it is necessary to master a certain angle, and it is not advisable to lift the needle, twist the needle and leave the needle for a long time, so as not to hurt important tissues and organs and have serious adverse consequences.
5. For patients with urinary retention and enuresis. You should also master the appropriate direction, angle and depth of acupuncture. When needling small abdominal acupoints, so as to avoid accidental injury to bladder and other organs.
6, children with fever, chickenpox, mumps, etc. I don't think it's acupuncture
Therefore, children can be treated with acupuncture, but they must go to a professional hospital for treatment.
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