What are the early symptoms of cerebral palsy in premature infants?

Every family hopes that their child will have a healthy body when the child is born. However, in many families, due to women's lack of special attention during pregnancy and due to physical reasons, they are particularly prone to premature birth or fetal hypoxia, which can easily cause cerebral palsy in the baby. Once cerebral palsy occurs, many families always give up hope and easily give up treatment. In fact, if it can be discovered and treated very early, it can be well cured and controlled. However, because we don’t know much about the symptoms of cerebral palsy, we are always unable to discover it in time. Let’s take a look at the early symptoms of cerebral palsy in premature babies.

What are the early symptoms of cerebral palsy in premature infants?

(1) Motor lag and reduced active movement: Normal children can lift their heads when lying prone and kick their legs when lying supine at 3 months old, but children with cerebral palsy rarely have these movements.

Normal children can actively reach out and touch objects when they are 4 to 5 months old, but children with cerebral palsy have very little upper limb movement.

(2) Abnormal muscle tone: Children with cerebral palsy have lower or higher muscle tone than normal children.

(3) Abnormal posture: Children with cerebral palsy often have their heads tilted back, fall backward when sitting at 6 months old, squeeze their legs together, and have difficulty in changing diapers.

(4) Abnormal reflexes: Normal children will have a hug reflex when their head suddenly lowers (like a startled expression). This reflex usually disappears after 6 months, but it does not disappear in children with cerebral palsy. There are various other reflex abnormalities.

How to enable children with cerebral palsy to live a normal life has become a common goal pursued by countless medical experts.

Paralysis caused by brain disease is called cerebral palsy.

Simply put, cerebral palsy is a paralysis-like symptom caused by brain damage. When the infant's brain is not yet fully developed, if it is damaged by ischemia or hypoxia, it will cause brain damage and lead to motor dysfunction. Children with cerebral palsy will have varying degrees of motor dysfunction. Some children are limp all over and cannot sit or stand; some children have tight and stiff muscles and cannot walk. Children with tense and stiff muscles all over their body are the main symptom of cerebral palsy.

The above is an introduction to the early symptoms of cerebral palsy in premature babies. After understanding it, we know that the symptoms of cerebral palsy cannot be found immediately after the baby is born. Generally, as the baby continues to grow, some babies may not turn over or raise their heads after three or four months, and cerebral palsy may occur. Although every family does not want such a tragedy to happen, mastering more common sense can help discover problems in time and get better control. In addition, in order to avoid such phenomena, female friends must do a good prenatal check-up during pregnancy and choose a good delivery method.