Patient's question:
A friend just had a child, who was only three months old when diagnosed with infantile cerebral palsy. They have never been able to believe this fact. Is infantile cerebral palsy very serious? Now the family is worried. What kind of help is needed: What are the early symptoms of infantile cerebral palsy?Doctor's answer:
Neonatal period: How to have feeding difficulties, such as the baby not being able to suck, weak sucking, or rejecting milk, or becoming tired and weak after sucking; How to show excessive quietness, weak crying or persistent crying; How to have spontaneous activity, reduced muscle tone, overall flaccidity, and a state of weakness; How to show stiffness all over the body, frequently wriggling out of the swaddling, with the head and back bent, sometimes with the head tilted to one side, and the lower limbs rigidly moving; How to have easily startled, twitching, screaming, or restlessness; How to have abnormal postures, such as adduction and internal rotation of the upper limbs, clenched fists, etc.