Patient's question:
I noticed that the little boy next door is over 3 years old now, but he still walks rather unsteadily, cannot speak, and seems quite slow in reaction. People say he has cerebral palsy. The child is quite cute, and it makes me feel sorry. How is infantile cerebral palsy caused? Why does this happen?What kind of help I want: Why does infantile cerebral palsy occur? What are the causes of infantile cerebral palsy?
Doctor's answer:
There are many causes of cerebral palsy, but in more than one-third of cases, the cause cannot be identified. Sometimes, multiple different factors may contribute to a single case. Antenatal factors are the most common, including hereditary diseases such as familial inheritance and chromosomal disorders, congenital infections, brain developmental 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 from the onset of labor to one week after birth, including cerebral edema, neonatal shock, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis or central nervous system infections, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, etc. Perinatal factors may be a significant cause of cerebral palsy in premature infants. Factors after late neonatal period include central nervous system infections, cerebrovascular diseases, head trauma, poisoning, and other causes of non-progressive brain damage that occur between one week and three or four years of age. For reference.