Patient's question:
My baby has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, but how could he have gotten this disease at such a young age? We are receiving treatment as quickly as possible, but I want to know what causes this condition?What kind of help do I need: What causes cerebral palsy in children?
Doctor's answer:
There are many causes of cerebral palsy, but in more than 1/3 of cases, the cause cannot be identified. Any factor that induces brain edema, aspiration, injury, or poisoning in the fetal and neonatal brain tissue can lead to irreversible brain damage, thereby causing childhood cerebral palsy. Congenital malformations, hereditary defects, intrauterine infections, threatened miscarriage, maternal exposure to toxic substances, radiation hazards, and gestational hypertension; difficult labor, fetal umbilical cord occlusion due to bending or wrapping around the neck, neonatal respiratory distress, macrosomia and low birth weight, premature and immature infants, neonatal trauma, jaundice, intracranial hematoma, sepsis leading to shock, aspiration pneumonia, atelectasis causing brain hypoxia—all of these may result in childhood cerebral palsy. The above are suggestions for the question "What causes childhood cerebral palsy?" and I hope it helps you. Wishing you good health!