Can babies with cerebral palsy be amused? This is the truth!

Babies with cerebral palsy have relatively low functions in all aspects. For example, they cannot speak when they are old enough to speak, they cannot walk when they are old enough to walk, and even their facial expressions are relatively simple. Many people would ask, can babies with cerebral palsy be made to laugh?

1. Cerebral palsy usually refers to a central movement disorder caused by non-progressive brain damage or abnormal brain development caused by various reasons from before birth to one month after birth. Clinically, it is characterized by abnormal posture and muscle tone, muscle weakness, involuntary movements and ataxia, often accompanied by sensory, cognitive, communication, behavioral disorders and secondary skeletal and muscular abnormalities, and may cause epileptic seizures. Therefore, children with cerebral palsy will not respond to external stimuli or their responses are extremely slow, and they cannot be made to laugh.

2. Most children with cerebral palsy do not have simple spastic type or simple athetosis type, but are more or less mixed with various factors. Spasms and rigidity are present in almost all cases, and most infants with labor asphyxia present with a mixture of spastic and athetoid symptoms. The cause of cerebral palsy in children may be related to congenital maldevelopment, viral infection during pregnancy, and prolonged labor and intrauterine hypoxic brain damage.

3. There are many causes of cerebral palsy, and prenatal factors are the most common, including genetic and chromosomal diseases, congenital infections, brain malformations or maldevelopment, fetal cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, etc. Perinatal factors refer to brain damage that occurs from the beginning of delivery to one week after birth, including cerebral edema, neonatal shock, intracerebral hemorrhage, sepsis or central nervous system infection, ischemic-hypoxic encephalopathy, etc. It is recommended that children with cerebral palsy should choose nutritious and easy-to-digest foods. Eat more lean meat, liver, eggs, fresh vegetables and fruits. According to the development of the child's oral function, gradually change the texture of food from liquid food, semi-liquid food to solid food. Feed reasonably, at regular times and in regular quantities to prevent malnutrition and indigestion. For children with cerebral palsy who have difficulty swallowing, be patient when feeding them and give them food that is easy to swallow.