Don't pinch your cheeks like this any more, it's more dangerous than a super slap

A cute, plump child is often "hunted" by relatives, neighbors, and friends of parents. The act of pinching the cheek expresses the love of those around them for the baby. However, this seemingly innocuous act carries potential risks to the health of the baby.

Let's see what are the harmful effects of pinching babies' cheeks.

Dermatitis, allergies

Infants' skin is very thin and sensitive, so repeated cheeks can hurt the skin and make babies more susceptible to skin diseases or allergies.

Not everyone cleans their hands before pinching their cheeks. That is the reason why children are at high risk of allergies or skin infections when they are famished too much.

The baby will cry more

Most children can recognize relatives so they can be comfortable with emotional expressions such as hugging, kissing, and pinching cheeks. However, with strangers, the cuddling action, especially the cheek-scarring behavior, will make children feel nervous, cry, even sleep at night, startling . This accidentally affects sleep quality and later developmental ability of the child.

Affect face shape

Typically, adult facial scarring will lead to asymmetry of the left and right jaws. In the long run, the baby's face will be distorted, causing face deformity by the baby's facial bone until 5 years old and basically fully developed.

Affect nerves

The fat on the cheeks of young children is very full, but the muscle tone is low. If a child has multiple cheek scars many times, it will hurt the software, blood vessels and nerves there. Not to mention, in the cheeks of children have a pair of salivary glands responsible for salivation. It is connected to the salivary gland. If the baby widens the mouth, the mother will easily see the lining of the cheek inside the oral cavity.

In addition, the incomplete development of the young salivary glands, the elasticity of the walls of the salivary glands will make the shrinkage of salivary glands and salivary glands lower, causing saliva to flow out. or the bacteria in the oral cavity through the salivary glands travel backwards which cause salivary gland infection .

Affects hearing

When children have cheek scars, because the parotid glands are very immature and immature, they will not be able to withstand the force of adult hands, even some people with strong scars also damage parotid tissue, causing perforation of the eardrum. otitis media, . These things if unfortunate happens will affect the baby's future hearing by the parotid gland connected to the cheek.