Symptoms of cerebral palsy in children

Some babies foam at the mouth and have convulsions all over their body because they did not receive timely treatment for fever when they were young. At first, parents would think that it was a convulsion caused by a high fever and that it would get better after a while. However, after a while, they would find that the child would still have convulsions. As the child grew older, we found that his eyesight had deteriorated and his behavior had become uncoordinated. The doctor diagnosed that the child had cerebral palsy.

Many parents were shocked after hearing this. They did not believe that their children's disease was cerebral palsy, and they did not believe that their children's disease could not be cured. They visited many hospitals, but the conclusions were the same. So, what is cerebral palsy? What are the symptoms of cerebral palsy? What causes it?

Symptoms and signs

1. General manifestations The clinical manifestations of cerebral palsy are varied, mainly:

(1) Early manifestations:

① Psychiatric symptoms: excessive irritability, constant crying, and difficulty falling asleep. He reacts violently to sudden noises and changes in body position, shaking all over and crying as if frightened.

② Feeding difficulties: manifested as uncoordinated sucking and swallowing, and slow weight gain.

③ Difficulty in care: It is difficult to put the arms into the sleeves when dressing, it is difficult to separate the thighs when changing diapers, and when bathing, as soon as the feet touch the edge of the bathtub or the water surface, the baby's back immediately becomes stiff and arched, accompanied by crying.

(2) Movement dysfunction: manifested as:

① Motor development retardation: including gross motor or fine motor delay and reduced active movement.

② Abnormal muscle tone: manifested as hypertonia, muscle rigidity, hypotonia and incoordination of muscle tone.

③ Abnormal posture: Posture at rest such as tense neck reflex posture, rigid limb posture, opisthotonos posture, and hemiplegic posture; abnormal posture during activity such as choreoathetosis and torsional spasm, spastic paraplegic gait, and cerebellar ataxia gait.

In fact, when a child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, parents must not lose confidence in their baby. Only when parents themselves are full of confidence can they actively treat their children. They should talk to their children more often, tell them more stories, massage them more often, and give them more acupuncture treatments when necessary. In this way, perhaps a miracle will happen.