Is a baby's soft body an early sign of cerebral palsy?

After three months, the baby's body can be straightened by itself, because the child at this stage has developed strength. When the parents hold the baby, the waist can be straightened directly, and the body can also support itself. However, if the baby's body is very limp and does not straighten itself when the parents hold the baby, it may be a precursor to cerebral palsy and the baby needs to go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.

Children with cerebral palsy often experience a "soft" body, and this phenomenon often causes many people to misunderstand

Because in the minds of many parents, children's bodies will be "soft" if they lack calcium. Xiao Yi, a 4-year-old child with cerebral palsy, missed the best time for treatment because of his parents' misunderstanding. When Xiao Yi was over one year old and started learning to walk, his parents noticed that his right limbs were soft and weak, and he always walked with a limp and was not very steady. They did not take it too seriously and just went to the hospital to get some calcium supplements for their son. Then, after taking calcium supplements for a long period of time, Xiao Yi's symptoms of uneven gait and limb weakness became more and more obvious. His parents became anxious and took him to the hospital for examination, where they confirmed that he had cerebral palsy. When Xiao Yi was born, he suffered a difficult labor and brief suffocation, which resulted in incomplete brain development. After learning the truth, his parents regretted it deeply.

In fact, calcium deficiency in children is a malicious chronic nutritional disease caused by abnormal calcium and phosphorus metabolism due to vitamin D deficiency. The main symptoms of rickets in infancy are crying, being easily startled, and sweating. There is absolutely no abnormal posture or intellectual development, and the mother has no history of difficult labor or brain hypoxia before and after the child is born. It can be seen that cerebral palsy and calcium deficiency are essentially different. Although some children with cerebral palsy also suffer from calcium deficiency, the real cause of the flaccidity and paralysis is cerebral palsy. Therefore, parents should pay attention to their baby's daily performance. If they find that their child's motor development is delayed, they should take him to the hospital for examination as soon as possible. For any pediatric disease, early treatment is always the most critical.

For the treatment of cerebral palsy in children, comprehensive treatment measures should be adopted, combining rehabilitation training with surgical treatment to achieve the best treatment effect.

Rehabilitation training is the most important treatment for patients with cerebral palsy, and it is especially important in early treatment. Through rehabilitation training, the brain tissue can continue to mature and differentiate, so that the function of the damaged part can be compensated, thereby improving the motor function of the child. Preoperative rehabilitation is mainly focused on reducing muscle tension and stretching tendons and ligaments, so that the effect can be seen in a very short time. However, this effect is only temporary and cannot really solve the problem. Generally, the disease will recur after a period of rehabilitation is stopped, and the disease will continue to progress and make the limb deformity more serious. Postoperative rehabilitation mainly relieves the patient's muscle tension through surgery, and then rehabilitates the restricted and underdeveloped muscle strength through a series of methods, so that the patient can stand up and walk again. Specifically, postoperative rehabilitation of cerebral palsy can be roughly divided into recovery period, gradual stage, strengthening period, intensive period and home rehabilitation period. The first four stages of rehabilitation treatment last an average of three months per cycle and must be completed in the hospital under the guidance of a rehabilitation therapist to ensure the best rehabilitation effect. After the successful completion of the current four stages of rehabilitation, the child can be discharged from the hospital and return home to continue home rehabilitation treatment.

Surgical treatment also plays an important role in the clinical treatment of children with cerebral palsy. Especially when various non-surgical treatments are ineffective, surgery becomes an important means. Surgery is divided into two categories: neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery. Currently, the more commonly used surgeries are FSPR (functional selective posterior spinal nerve resection), SPN (peripheral nerve constriction) and carotid adventitial stripping. Orthopedic surgery must be performed after spasmolysis surgery. It is now mainly used as a treatment for fixed deformities of the limbs after FSPR surgery.