What causes cerebral palsy in children?

Cerebral palsy, whose full name is infantile cerebral palsy, is brain damage caused to newborn babies due to some reasons before or within one month of their birth. Cerebral palsy is considered a very serious disease in modern society. After all, children are still young, and they are damaged when their various functions are not fully developed when they are just born. It is easy for their lives to be ruined. So we need to understand what causes cerebral palsy in children? Only then can we take timely precautions.

The occurrence of cerebral palsy brings serious harm to patients, not only affecting the physical and mental development of the patients themselves, but also affecting the harmony of the entire family and even the entire society. With the continuous improvement of science and technology and knowledge levels, cerebral palsy in children is no longer a difficult disease to treat.

The causes of cerebral palsy are very complex and there are many different opinions. In fact, any damaging factors that cause ischemia, hypoxia, injury or poisoning of the fetal and neonatal brain tissue can cause irreversible brain damage and lead to cerebral palsy. The reasons can be summarized as follows:

1. Prenatal factors: such as congenital malformations, genetic defects, intrauterine infection, threatened abortion, maternal exposure to toxic substances, radiation damage, pregnancy-induced hypertension, etc.

2. Factors during delivery: such as difficult labor, interruption of umbilical cord blood supply due to sagging or wrapping of the umbilical cord around the neck during delivery, neonatal asphyxia, macrosomia and low birth weight babies, premature and immature babies, birth injuries, etc.

3 Postpartum factors: such as neonatal jaundice, neonatal intracranial hematoma, sepsis leading to shock, aspiration pneumonia, atelectasis leading to cerebral hypoxia, etc.

Taking all the above factors into consideration, we conclude that the causes of cerebral palsy are: premature birth, dystocia, asphyxia, and jaundice.

In clinical work, it was found that very few children with cerebral palsy had a family history, which does not indicate the hereditary nature of cerebral palsy. Therefore, cerebral palsy is not a hereditary disease.

What are the causes of cerebral palsy in children? We can now know that cerebral palsy in children is not a hereditary disease. The most important thing is to receive timely treatment, treat it seriously, and not waste the best time for treatment. Children are the apple of every parent’s eye. We hope that parents can start with themselves and consider their children’s new health.