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Anyone else's LO have a hemangioma? Benjamin has one on his right shoulder. I asked the Dr about it at his well visit yesterday. He says it will probably grow on the surface and get wider for the first year of life. Then it will disappear by the age of 5 or so... WEIRD! I saw some terrible looking ones online that are one baby's face! Poor things! I guess it's most common on the face and neck. I'm glad it's on his shoulder then. He said there is no cause for concern unless it starts to grow beneath the skin. It would be like a shoulder pad in his case. If that happens he said there may need to be steroid or laser treatment in the future but that this is rare. I'd never heard of this before! According to What To Expect... it's about 1 in 10 babies! Anyone else?
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Re: Hemangioma
My DD has a small one right on her hairline. It showed up when she was 2-3 wks old and has grown a little. Our pediatrician isn't remotely concerned. Same as you mention... should grow a little more and then go away on it's own.
Actually, I've seen quite a few babies with these in the past. When I was at Costco over the weekend, a woman working there was oogling over my cute girls (braggy mom for that brief sec)
and then she said, Oh, she even has a little hemangioma. Then she said her granddaughter had a dime-sized one in the middle of her forehead when she was born and she is now 7 and there's no sign of it whatsoever.
Don't know if this will work, but trying to post a pic of daughter's hemangioma. I was concerned at first too... but if this is her biggest issue, we are in great shape!
IMG_0906 by dhelenl9, on Flickr
Visiting from another BMB as I occasionally do searches on hemangioma a due to our experience. Our daughter developed one on her neck shortly after birth and it grew to about the size of a half dollar and about 1/4 inch raised. It would have gone untreated, but at six months it started to rub against her car seat strap and ulcerated, so we did go ahead with treatment. The great news is there is a NEW treatment for hemangioma a that is so much better than steroids or surgery. It's an experimental use of a drug that has been used on children for decades called propranolol. Within a month of starting it, her hemangioma was half size and now, six months later it is 90% gone. The side effects are minimal.