Causes of cerebral palsy in children

Many parents want to know why their children suffer from cerebral palsy. Only after knowing the cause of the child’s illness can they better treat it. In my country, according to authoritative surveys, children with cerebral palsy account for 1.5 to 5/1000 of the total number of newborns. There are approximately 3 million children with cerebral palsy, and the number of children with cerebral palsy is still increasing at a rate of 46,000 people each year.

No parent wants their child to suffer from this disease. All parents hope that their children can grow up healthy, but the reality is cruel. When these children suffer from cerebral palsy, parents are very heartbroken. Let us take a look at the causes of cerebral palsy in children.

The causes of cerebral palsy are relatively complex, but they can be mainly divided into three factors: prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum.

1. Prenatal factors: abdominal trauma of pregnant women, threatened abortion, prenatal bleeding, pregnancy toxemia and placental causes (placental abruption, placenta previa, placental necrosis or placental dysfunction), as well as certain chronic diseases of pregnant women (hypertension, hepatitis, diabetes, drug abuse, drug overdose).

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 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.

Cerebral palsy is not a simple disease, but a syndrome. It is due to brain damage, resulting in a series of dysfunctions including the brain, nerves, muscles, etc. The symptoms of cerebral palsy are varied and very complex. A single treatment method inevitably has limitations and often fails to achieve good therapeutic effects.

Although cerebral palsy is very difficult to treat, parents should not give up hope. The medical community is also constantly researching more methods to treat cerebral palsy in children, so parents must have confidence. In addition, parents must pay more attention to children with cerebral palsy and let these children receive more care and love than normal children.