Chicken breast, also known as funnel chest, is a relatively common disease in life. It is especially likely to appear in children aged 5 to 12 years. The incidence figures are relatively high and warrants vigilance. There is a high probability of chicken chest appearing when the gap is depressed downwards in children. Parents must take this symptom seriously. As soon as a child is found to have a sunken chest, it should be examined. Funnel chest is a relatively common symptom in life and is especially likely to occur in minors. The presence of sunken chest in children must be taken seriously by parents. Under normal circumstances, people's sternum is flat, there is no downward depression, children are underdeveloped, but this symptom is also absolutely not normal, so it is necessary to prevent the occurrence of chicken chest.

Pediatric funnel chest is a common chest wall deformity, accounting for 90% of pediatric chest wall deformities. Clinical manifestations of the lower part of the sternal body and the raphe window as the center, the sternum and both sides of the rib cartilage with inward depression, forming a funnel-shaped. In some cases, the sternum is tilted asymmetrically on both sides, concave and convex **** exist, irregular type funnel chest. There is a family genetic tendency. Signs of deformity of funnel chest in the neonatal period, accompanied by neck forward, back curvature, abdominal protrusion of the body shape. 7 years of age and older children with funnel chest is often combined with varying degrees of scoliosis. The deformed and depressed sternum will not only affect the beauty of the body shape, but also compress the heart and lungs, resulting in different degrees of damage to the cardiopulmonary function.

The sternal depression, also known as funnel chest, is characterized by a downward slope from the lower edge of the sternal stem to the xiphoid process. The sternal depression further deepens to form a funnel shape, and the rib cartilage on the sick side also bends to the back at the same time, sometimes asymmetrically on both sides, and the sternum rotates to the right, up to 90 degrees in severe cases. Disease, malnutrition, trauma, human factors and many other reasons have been present since childhood, it is recommended to go to the hospital to check.

From the above, we can see that the child's sternum is funnel chest, it is recommended to give the child in daily life to strengthen the nutrition, to avoid the child because of the sternum caused by the child's growth and development is slow, it may also affect the health of the internal organs, if the child appeared to have the symptoms of the sternum invagination must be in time to the hospital to be examined.