General description of the disease
This is a vascular tumor of a benign nature, which is found in a child immediately after birth. It can appear during the first month of a baby’s life.
This tumor is most common in girls. For 3 girls, there is only 1 boy with hemangioma.
Hemangioma growth cannot be controlled. It can be small or very large. It increases in size up to one year old, then begins its reverse process and in most children it disappears on its own by 5-9 years.
The neoplasm can be in the form of a small speck or a convex oval, or even grow deeper. If there are more than three hemangiomas on the child’s body, then they are clearly present on the internal organs of the baby. Most often they are localized on the face and neck. As for the color, it can be pink, crimson, or even bluish.
Reasons for the appearance of hemangioma
Medical professionals still cannot explain the exact reasons due to which hemangioma appears. Genetic inheritance is completely excluded. They only put forward factors that can contribute to the development of vascular tumors.
Often hemangiomas occur: in multiple pregnancies (when a woman has twins, triplets or more); if the mother has late childbirth (when the woman in labor is over 38 years old); if the baby is premature or was born with a very low weight; when eclampsia occurs during pregnancy (eclampsia is a disease during which blood pressure rises to such a level that there is a threat to life for the mother and her fetus, it is a late form of toxicosis).
In addition, hemangioma can develop after a viral infection by the mother during the laying of the vascular system in the fetus (this happens at about 4-5 weeks of pregnancy).
The mechanism of development of hemangioma in children
During the formation of the cardiovascular system, in the fetus, the endothelial cells (the surface of the vessels), due to the influence of the above factors, fall into the wrong place, therefore, after the birth of the baby, they begin to transform into a benign tumor that can develop on the skin, on the mucous membrane and even on the internal organs.
Varieties and symptoms of hemangioma
Hemangioma can be simple, cavernous, combined and mixed.
- 1 Simple hemangioma placed on the uppermost layers of the skin, the tumor is red or bluish. Grows to the sides, but not in height, may slightly affect subcutaneous fat. A simple hemangioma has a smooth surface. When you press the tumor with your finger, it loses its color, but then the color becomes bright again and has its original shade.
- 2 Cavernous form hemangioma is located under the skin, when palpating the place where it is located, a knotty, plastic ball is felt. It consists of various cavities (cavities) that are filled with blood. From above, the formation has a cyanotic color, and with growth it changes to purple. When a child cries or screams, blood comes to the hemangioma and it sticks out strongly.
- 3 If the above two types are combined, then such a hemangioma is called combined… At the same time, there is absolutely no difference which of them is dominant.
- 4 Mixed hemangioma Is a neoplasm that contains tumor cells that develop from blood vessels and any other tissues (for example, nervous or connective tissue). In this case, the tumor will wear the color of the tissues of which it is composed.
Also, hemangiomas can be single and plural.
Complications of hemangioma
Due to the fact that the tumor consists of blood vessels, many complications can arise. When exposed to unfavorable factors, the blood in the damaged vessels can be curtailed, which can lead to intoxication, pain syndrome, and ulcers and suppuration in the hemangioma can develop.
If there is a hemangioma on an internal organ, it may malfunction. Also, anemia may begin due to bleeding, and squeezing of adjacent tissues can provoke the growth of new vascular tumors.
Useful foods for hemangioma
With hemangioma, most of the diet should consist of proteins, 50% of which should be of animal origin. There should be 4 to 6 meals a day and all meals should be served warm. The amount of liquid consumed must be at least 1,5 liters. Fats in food should be predominantly vegetable.
Recommended for consumption:
- bread (preferably dried or in the form of breadcrumbs), baked goods made from uncooked dough;
- any fermented milk products (only without fillers);
- meat, fish of low-fat varieties (chicken, veal, turkey, beef – from meat, and from fish you can cod, pollock, pike perch, haddock, roach), diet sausage and not fatty ham, once a day you need to eat one egg yolk;
- cereals and cereals (especially buckwheat, noodles, oatmeal, noodles);
- vegetables (asparagus, beets, carrots, squash, pumpkin, tomatoes, celery and parsley);
- any fruits, berries and juices, compotes, fruit drinks, jelly from them;
- vegetable oils: corn, olive, pumpkin, sunflower;
- you can drink rosehip broth, weakly brewed tea and coffee (but it is better to replace coffee with chicory) and little by little you can add honey and sugar.
All dishes should be boiled, stewed or baked. Vegetables and fruits can be eaten raw.
Traditional medicine
It is necessary to start treatment with the help of alternative methods as early as possible. To cure an ailment, compresses are used and infusions are drunk. Consider all the possible treatments for this benign tumor.
- For any type of tumor, a young walnut, or rather its juice, helps well. Juice is squeezed out of a green nut and applied to the tumor.
- In 3 weeks, you can get rid of the disease if you make lotions with “jellyfish” (as the people call kombucha because of its bizarre appearance). Take a piece of the mushroom and apply it to the hemangioma. Such a lotion needs to be changed once a day, and the mushroom should be stored in a jar of water, and you can attach it to the tumor with a plaster.
- Copper sulfate lotions are made within 10 days. To make a healing solution, take 100 milliliters of boiled water and stir 1 tablespoon of copper sulfate in it. Take a cotton pad, moisten it in a solution, wash the tumor. After 10 days, a new course begins – taking baths with tea soda (you also need to use 10 days, take a pack of soda for a bath of water), then complete the treatment by applying compresses from onions. An average onion is taken and rubbed on a fine grater, the resulting gruel is applied to the hemangioma at night. These compresses also need to be done within 10 days. It should be noted that the healing properties of onions are preserved for 12 hours after chopping. Therefore, this gruel must be done daily.
- In case of liver hemangioma, a medical collection is taken, which is prepared from half a kilogram of honey, a glass of aloe juice, ½ bottle of brandy. Mix everything thoroughly. To make aloe juice, you can take a plant that is 3 years old. These 3 components are left in one saucepan, and 100 grams of chopped and dried yarrow herb, grated rose hips and pine buds are placed in another. Add a glass of finely chopped chaga mushroom and 5 grams of bitter wormwood. Add 3 liters of water to both vessels and put on a small fire. Cook for 2 hours. Then cover and wrap well, leave to infuse for 24 hours. After this time, everything is filtered and the two infusions are mixed together. The resulting infusion is left for 4 hours. You need to use it three times a day, a teaspoon 45-60 minutes before meals. This dosage should be taken for 2 months, then the dosage is increased to 1 tablespoon per dose (drink for 4 months). You need to store the tincture in a dark bottle in the refrigerator.
- For hemangioma of the kidneys, an extract from fly agaric is used. Important! You need to be very careful with it, because it is a poisonous mushroom! If a healthy person accepts the hood, he will have paralysis of the nervous system!
- For more effective treatment of this benign neoplasm, you should add milk thistle powder to your food and drink a tincture of bitter wormwood (it is sold in pharmacies). Take 15-20 drops three times a day 10-12 minutes before meals. The course of treatment is 21 days, after which you need to take a break for 30 days and then duplicate the course on 21 days.
- You can also drink oatmeal water. To prepare it, take a glass of oats per liter of water, insist for 10 hours, then boil for half an hour, let it brew for another 10 hours. After that, it is filtered and filled with a liter of boiled water. They drink half a glass of such water at a time three times a day, for a month, then take a break for a month and repeat the course. You need to drink oatmeal water on an empty stomach 20-25 minutes before eating.
Indication for removal of hemangiomas
Not all hemangiomas can be cured with traditional methods.
Tumors that have formed on the mucous membranes (on the larynx, the eye, or if its growth is directed into the ear cavity), near the physiological openings (this includes the external auditory canals, nose, anus, genitals, mouth), in places that are very easy to injure (on the stomach or side).
This is due to the uncontrolled growth of hemangiomas. Due to their sudden acceleration, vital organs can be damaged or closed. For example, if a tumor is located in the larynx, then with a sudden growth, the neoplasm can block the access of oxygen and lead to suffocation of the child. Or if the tumor grows deep into some holes, it can close them, which will stop natural processes (urination and defecation).
As for the injury to the hemangioma, with a single damage to it, nothing terrible will happen (the vascular tumor will bleed a little, like an ordinary wound, and then heal), but with multiple injuries, an infection can get into the wound and then irreversible consequences will begin. It is worth being wary of hemangiomas located on the side (where things are usually dressed and fastened, inadvertently you can catch a tumor and tear it off).
Also, doctors insist on removing hemangiomas that have not stopped growing by the age of two, or the tumor has not disappeared by the age of ten.
Recommendations
Hemangiomas must be constantly monitored. How they increase or decrease, what is their color and shape. Whether new tumors appear or when and how the hemangioma was traumatized (hooked). All this should be recorded by the parents. This is done so that the attending physician can see in more detail and compare the results at the appointment and recommend a more successful type of treatment.
Dangerous and harmful foods for hemangioma
- freshly baked white and rye bread, baked goods;
- fatty meat, fish, sausages;
- confectionery with cream, chocolate, cocoa, cream;
- lard, margarine and lard;
- spicy, fried and too salty foods;
- heavy vegetables and herbs: radishes, spinach, sorrel, cabbage (all varieties), rutabagas, sweet potatoes, leeks, cucumbers;
- mushrooms;
- green borsch and okroshka;
- condiments, sauces, dressings, marinades, spices, canned food;
- semi-finished products, instant food, fast food, food additives, dyes;
- strong coffee, tea, alcoholic drinks, sweet soda, any cold drinks.
These foods should be excluded from the diet, as they can provoke tumor growth in the future.
Attention!
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