Infants : the High Authority of health focuses on the syndrome of “flat head”

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Published the 01.08.2017 at 13h04

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“It would not be a little flattened ? “This is the question that many young parents have already asked about the skull of new-born baby. And even more since this past spring. The patients association the LINK, chaired by Beatrice Ceretti, was seized last April, the High Authority for health within the framework of the new system of the right of alert. The LINK believes that there is a real public health problem. The skulls of the small French would be more frequently flattened since it is recommended to lie down on the back. In the Face of a challenge of this recommendation, however, followed in the international and which has avoided many cases of unexpected death of the infant, other associations (to be Born and to Live, ANCReMIN in particular), and many pediatricians were mounted in the niche.

At its meeting of 28 June last, the HAS has been estimated that the referral LINK was responding to “the conditions of admissibility” ; it therefore included the topic in its programme of work and has indicated that it will produce two documents on the prevention of the risk of plagiocephaly in the infant.

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Plagiocephaly is a new “epidemic” ? Pediatricians do not deny that the number of babies born with a deformity of the skull has increased in recent years. For the LINK, it seems not to be any doubt that it is directly related to the recommendations of sleeping on the back of the infants. “It is true that one sees more plagiocephaly since then, but it is also at this time that has started the mode of the nacelles and “cozy” all types “, noted, for his part, Dr. François-Marie Caron, a pediatrician at the maternity of Amiens, and president of the Network perinatal Picardy. The doctor emphasizes especially that ” there is today no scientific evidence to prove a link between the sleeping on the back and plagiocephaly “.

The HAS succession for its part, in its decision of 28 June last, ” the absence of work in French on the subject “. However, numerous studies have been conducted abroad, and of the recommendations already exist in some countries for the prevention and management of plagiocephaly.