Causes of cerebral palsy in children

We also call cerebral palsy in children cerebral palsy, commonly known as cerebral palsy. The symptoms of cerebral palsy in children are generally language barriers. Patients with cerebral palsy in children also have barriers in literacy, and there are barriers in growth, development, movement, and posture. So what are the causes of cerebral palsy in children? We will introduce it in detail below.

There are many causes of cerebral palsy in children. As long as we know the causes of cerebral palsy in children, we can effectively prevent it. Cerebral palsy in children is generally related to parents' smoking and drinking, and is also related to many diseases.

Main symptoms

(1) Movement disorders: The patient has poor motor self-control ability. In severe cases, the patient cannot grasp objects with his hands or walk with his feet. Some patients cannot even turn over, sit up, stand, or chew and swallow normally.

(2) Postural disorders: Various abnormal postures, poor posture stability, the head cannot be straightened at 3 months, and is accustomed to leaning to one side, or swaying left and right, front and back. The child does not like to take a bath and has difficulty opening his fist when washing his hands.

(3) Intellectual Disability: About 1/4 of the children have normal intelligence, about 1/2 have mild or moderate intellectual disability, and about 1/4 have severe intellectual disability.

(4) Language barriers: difficulty in language expression, unclear pronunciation or stuttering.

(5) The most common visual and auditory impairments include esotropia and difficulty in distinguishing the rhythm of sounds.

(6) Growth and development disorders and short stature.

(7) Developmental disorders cause teeth to be loose and easily broken. Orofacial dysfunction, with spasms or sometimes uncoordinated contractions of the facial and tongue muscles, difficulty chewing and swallowing, difficulty closing the mouth, and drooling.

(8) Emotional and behavioral disorders: Stubbornness, willfulness, irritability, and withdrawal, with mood swings and sometimes compulsive, self-harming, and aggressive behaviors.

(9) 39% to 50% of children with cerebral palsy develop epilepsy due to fixed lesions in the brain, especially those with severe intellectual disability.

Causes of cerebral palsy in children:

There are many causes of cerebral palsy in children, which can be summarized as follows: parents smoking, drinking, taking drugs, mother suffering from mental illness, diabetes during pregnancy, vaginal bleeding, gestational hypertension, placenta previa, threatened abortion or taking contraceptives to treat infertility, pregnancy-preserving drugs, etc.; high parity, premature birth, history of miscarriage, twins or multiple births, fetal growth retardation, intrauterine infection, intrauterine distress, placental abruption, placental dysfunction, umbilical cord around the neck, forceps delivery, long breech presentation, premature or post-term low birth weight babies, asphyxia and aspiration pneumonia after birth, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, kernicterus, intracranial hemorrhage, infection, poisoning and malnutrition, etc.

Above, we introduced what cerebral palsy is. We know that cerebral palsy is also called cerebral palsy. We introduced the clinical manifestations and causes of cerebral palsy. There are many causes of cerebral palsy, which are introduced one by one in the above article. Only when we understand the causes can we prevent it well.