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The spasms of the crying consist of the fact that the child detains the respiration when it is having a tantrum. Usually, they appear in the second year of the life, although they can appear up to 5 years. They originate for feelings of anger, fear, frustration or strong emotion.
In general, 5 % of the children has presented one day an episode of spasm of the sob and almost always we find the precedent of which another member of the family has presented them (There exists information that suggest a genetic transmission of type autosómico domineeringly).
TYPES OF SPASMS OF THE CRYING
Two types of spasms exist: blue (the purple) and the pale ones.
- The classic spasms of the crying are the blue or purple ones, in which the child presents this color in the face until the respiration is restored. The child stops breathing and immediately later it presents intense crying.
- In those of pale type, the child takes an intense pale coloration at the moment of the spasm. Since in the purple type, the child stops breathing and immediately later it presents intense crying. The child can faint at the moment when it begins crying and can present a rigid and vaulted position. The absence of respiration is very brief and it goes followed by normal respiration and by behavior.
Both types of spasm, although they cause many worry in the parents and in the persons who attend them, are benign and they never hurt to the brain for lack of oxygen, nor have anything in common with the epilepsy, nor have effect in the behavior or in the later development of the child. With the growth they tend to disappear.
Recently, it has been that the spasms of the sob stretch to eliminate when ferrous sulfate is administered to them to the patients. The cause of this effect is not known.
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