Patient's question:
The son of a friend is two years old this year. When he was born, he was no different from other children. However, as he grew older and started learning to talk and walk, it was discovered that his legs were different from those of other children, and he also had difficulty speaking clearly. So, the child was taken to the hospital for a check-up, and the result was cerebral palsy.What kind of help is desired: What causes infantile cerebral palsy?
Doctor's answer:
Prenatal factors are the most common, including intergenerational inheritance and chromosomal diseases, congenital infections, brain development malformations or dysplasia, periventricular leukomalacia or basal ganglia damage caused by fetal brain ischemia and hypoxia, etc. Perinatal factors refer to brain injuries that occur again during labor and delivery to one week after birth, including cerebral edema, neonatal shock, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis or central nervous system infection, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, etc. Perinatal factors may be a significant cause of cerebral palsy in premature infants.