What are the symptoms of cerebral palsy?

Cerebral palsy is a disease that is difficult to treat. Some children have already shown symptoms of cerebral palsy when they are very young, but it is precisely because of their parents' neglect that they often develop cerebral palsy in the later stages. Below we will learn about the manifestations of children with cerebral palsy. We hope that parents can observe their children's conditions and achieve the goal of early detection and early treatment.

1. Patients with cerebral palsy generally show stagnation of lower limb activities: for example, they cannot walk or walk poorly after being over 1 year old, have an unusual walking posture (such as tiptoeing, scissor gait, limp, etc.), and cannot squat. These are all symptoms of mild cerebral palsy. The intellectual development of patients with cerebral palsy is retarded or suspected to be retarded, so these can also be regarded as symptoms of mild cerebral palsy.

2. If the baby has unexplained crying, difficulty falling asleep, irritability, difficulty feeding, choking, difficulty caring for, etc. Cerebral palsy is generally caused by multiple factors affecting the development of the nerve center before birth and during pregnancy. Cerebral palsy is often accompanied by symptoms such as cerebral palsy, mental retardation, sensory impairment, abnormal behavior, strange personality, and language delay. The most obvious feature is delayed motor development.

3. The baby cannot lift his head at 3 months, cannot smile at 4 months, his hands are still clenched tightly and will not loosen at 4 months, cannot grab objects at 5 months, cannot sit alone at 8 months, cannot crawl at 10 months, and cannot walk after 1 year old. According to the baby's growth and development characteristics, the baby's abnormalities can be classified. If these situations occur, parents should go to the hospital for examination.

In the neonatal period, children with cerebral palsy show poor responsiveness, significantly reduced movements, and even poor sucking ability, and often choke on milk. Some innate reflexes such as the rooting reflex, grasping reflex, and hugging reflex are weakened or do not appear at all. Slow reaction and no response when the name is called are early manifestations of cerebral palsy. It is generally believed that slow reaction at 4 months and no response when the name is called at 6 months can be diagnosed as mental retardation. Abnormal head circumference. Head circumference is an objective indicator of the morphological development of the brain. Children with brain damage often have abnormal head circumference.

Children with this disease in early childhood have limb movement disorders and cannot walk or have abnormal walking posture, such as standing on tiptoes, scissor gait, limping, inability to squat, etc. Their hands are not flexible and they cannot pick up objects with their hands or they always use one hand to pick up things. There may be intellectual retardation, language delay or language disorders, or vision abnormalities, hearing loss, etc. Cognitive and behavioral abnormalities occur, manifested as excitement, hyperactivity, loneliness, or fragility. Some children with cerebral palsy have athetosis, ataxia, hypotonia, rigidity, tremor, etc.

The above are some of the manifestations of children with cerebral palsy. Children will have different manifestations at different stages of their development. When you find that your child is developmentally delayed and the brain cannot keep up with the pace, you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time to confirm whether your child has the disease. Only in this way can you give your child a healthier growth environment and a healthy body.