Patient's question:
Daughter now seems to have developmental delay in intelligence, because she still cannot speak and her intelligence is like that of a child under two years old. Later, after a brain examination at the hospital, it was found that she had cerebral palsy. I want to know how to prevent this disease in daily life.Doctor's answer:
Hello, the prevention of cerebral palsy in children should start from the pre-marital stage, implementing pre-marital health care. Guidance should be provided to both men and women preparing to marry regarding sexual health, reproduction, and genetic diseases. Additionally, women's childbearing age is best before 35, which can help prevent cerebral palsy in children. The prevention of cerebral palsy in children also requires attention to the issue of poor nutrition in pregnant women, which often leads to the birth of low birth weight infants or poor brain development in the fetus, thereby causing cerebral palsy. Infants born to mothers with iodine deficiency often exhibit neurological defects. Iron deficiency in mothers not only causes anemia in themselves but can also affect the intelligence of the infant.