Young parents, please pay attention to the symptoms of children with mild cerebral palsy!

For a disease like cerebral palsy, the earlier it is discovered, the better the treatment effect will be. However, because the baby's behavioral manifestations in all aspects are not obvious when they are young, it is difficult to distinguish whether he has cerebral palsy. But experts still introduce some symptoms of mild cerebral palsy to help parents better distinguish them.

1. Movement disorders: The ability of motor self-control is poor. In severe cases, the hands cannot grasp things, the feet cannot walk, and some cannot even turn over, sit up, stand, chew and swallow normally.

2. Posture disorders: various abnormal postures, poor posture stability, the head cannot be straight at 3 months, and is accustomed to leaning to one side, or shaking left and right, front and back. The child does not like to take a bath, and has difficulty opening his fist when washing hands.

3. Intellectual disability: About 1/4 of the children have normal intelligence, about 1/2 have mild or moderate intellectual disability, and about 1/4 have severe intellectual disability.

4. Language barriers: difficulty in language expression, unclear pronunciation or stuttering.

5. The most common visual and auditory impairments include esotropia and difficulty in distinguishing the rhythm of sounds.

6. Growth and development disorders: short stature

7. Tooth development disorder: loose texture and easy to break. Orofacial dysfunction, with spasms or uncoordinated contractions of the facial and tongue muscles, and sometimes dysphagia, difficulty closing the mouth, and drooling.

8. Emotional and behavioral disorders: stubbornness, willfulness, irritability, and loneliness, with mood swings and sometimes compulsive, self-harming, and aggressive behaviors.

9. 39%-50% of children with cerebral palsy suffer from epilepsy due to fixed lesions in the brain, especially those with severe intellectual disability.

Experts from the Cerebral Palsy Treatment Base at the Nanjing Naval Command College Banshan Hospital pointed out that if parents find that their children have the above symptoms, they must not be careless and need to take their children for examination immediately.