Patient's question:
Why do children get cerebral palsy? What causes it? How is it treated?Doctor's answer:
There are many causes of cerebral palsy in children, which can be specifically summarized as follows: parents smoking, drinking excessively, using drugs, mothers suffering from mental illness, gestational diabetes, vaginal bleeding, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, placenta previa, threatened miscarriage, or taking fertility drugs or medication for maintaining pregnancy; high parity, preterm birth, history of miscarriage, multiple pregnancies (twins or more), fetal growth retardation, intrauterine infection, fetal distress, placental abruption, placental dysfunction, umbilical cord, forceps delivery, breech presentation with prolonged labor, low birth weight infants born prematurely or postterm, birth asphyxia with aspiration pneumonia, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, kernicterus, intracranial hemorrhage, infection, toxicity, and malnutrition, etc.