Symptoms of brain injury in babies

The brain skull of a newborn baby has not yet fully grown. If the parents do not protect the baby's head well, the baby is likely to be injured. Sometimes babies will have intracranial injuries, which are very dangerous and should be treated in hospital in time. If babies have intracranial injuries, there will be corresponding symptoms. Let's take a look at the symptoms of intracranial injuries in babies.

A detailed understanding and summary of some important symptoms of infants and young children in the early stage are as follows:

1. Newborns or infants between 2 and 6 months old are easily startled, vomit, cry and restless, have anorexia and sleep disorders;

2. Difficulty in feeding, eating, chewing, drinking, swallowing, etc., with drooling, respiratory disorders, and tracheitis-like wheezing;

3. Low sensory value, easily startled by noise or changes in body odor, and enhanced hug reflex;

4. If the child still cannot stand or walk with support after more than 90 days, brain damage (cerebral palsy) should be suspected;

5. After 105 days, the baby still cannot lift his head, and his head is still wobbly at 4-5 months;

6. If the child still clenches his fist, retracts his thumb, and does not open his hand at 4 months of age, brain damage (cerebral palsy) should be suspected;

7. Babies should actively reach out and grab objects when they see them at 4-5 months old. If they still cannot do so after 5 months, it is suspected that the baby has brain damage (cerebral palsy);

8. Children with spastic cerebral palsy have a dull expression, while children with athetoid cerebral palsy have a sad face.

9. Muscles are soft and unable to turn over; lower limbs are stretched and crossed;

11. Children with cerebral palsy may experience "premature" rolling over, which is a sudden reflexive rolling over, with the whole body rolling over like a log, rather than conscious segmental rolling over;

12. Children with spastic cerebral palsy may have stiff lower limbs before sitting steadily, and may stand on pointe or cross their legs like a ballet dancer.

Intervention for children with brain damage mainly involves providing appropriate information stimulation through the three main input pathways of the brain: vision, hearing, and skin sensation, and conducting functional training for the three main output manifestations of gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and language at a slightly earlier stage than normal motor development.

Crawling training is an important method for rehabilitation of brain injury. American doctors have pointed out through research that the characteristics of the phylogenetic evolutionary process are repeated in the process of human individual development. During the baby's motor development from crawling on all fours to crawling on his knees and then to standing and walking, the corresponding brain development is from the pons to the midbrain and then to the cerebral cortex. Crawling helps the brain recover. Clinically, it has been proven that passive exercises simulating crawling can effectively promote the occurrence of crawling movements, correct incorrect movement postures, regulate muscle tone, improve sensory perception, and conduct training in sitting, standing, walking, fine motor skills, chewing, language balance, etc. in a timely manner according to developmental rules for brain-injured children who cannot crawl. It is also an important part of brain injury intervention and cerebral palsy treatment.

It should be noted that no matter how much passive training is done, it cannot replace active movement. Doing everything possible to induce children to make correct active movements and talk more is the essence of rehabilitation treatment for brain injuries.