What is the cause of cerebral palsy in children?

If a child has symptoms such as fever, do not underestimate it and seek timely treatment, otherwise it will cause more serious cerebral palsy, which will directly affect the child's language center, motor center, etc. There are many causes of cerebral palsy in children. Let us now understand the causes of cerebral palsy in children.

Central

Cerebral palsy is a central injury, that is, paralysis caused by damage to the nervous system above the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord (or the motor nuclei of the cranial nerves), and the lesions are in the brain. Any paralysis caused by damage to the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord and below is not considered central damage and cannot be diagnosed as cerebral palsy. Limb paralysis caused by poliomyelitis, sciatic nerve injury, etc. does not fall into the category of cerebral palsy.

Developmental

Cerebral palsy is damage to the brain tissue during its growth and development. It refers to various causes acting on immature, growing and developing brain tissue rather than on mature brain tissue. Therefore, although certain intracranial diseases in adults, such as cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction, can also cause limb movement disorders, they cannot be diagnosed as cerebral palsy because they do not act on the developing brain tissue but on the mature brain tissue, which does not conform to the developmental characteristics. The brain tissue of the fetus, newborn and infant from conception to infancy is in development, and any damage to the brain tissue caused by any reason during this period is consistent with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy. Brain damage before conception and after infancy cannot be called cerebral palsy, because problems before conception are mostly congenital hereditary neurological diseases and should be differentiated from cerebral palsy. Brain damage caused by various reasons after infancy should be named as a disease, such as sequelae of encephalitis, and should not be diagnosed as cerebral palsy.

Non-progressive

The lesions of cerebral palsy are non-progressive, and the disease is characterized by no further progression. This point can be distinguished from diseases such as encephalitis and brain tumors. However, demyelinating diseases that are not obviously progressive or progress slowly, or congenital diseases, are difficult to distinguish from cerebral palsy. In addition, we often see many children with cerebral palsy in clinical practice. After being diagnosed, they do not receive treatment or are treated improperly for various reasons, and their symptoms become more and more obvious. This is because the abnormal posture and sensory conduction of the child's movement form a vicious cycle, causing the symptoms to continue to develop. Therefore, British scholar Dr. Bobath believes that the clinical symptoms of cerebral palsy are progressive at least before puberty, and the clinical manifestations change with growth. However, the lesions of intracranial damage in children with cerebral palsy are non-progressive.

The above are the causes of cerebral palsy in children. Cerebral palsy is a very serious disease that can hinder a child's development for life, requiring parents to pay a heavy price. In order to prevent cerebral palsy, children should be taken to the hospital for regular check-ups when they are young. I hope the above information can be helpful to you.