Patient's question:
When the child was born, some problems appeared. After that, we felt she was very different from other children. She often cried and screamed loudly and didn't listen to any coaxing. Moreover, she always clenched her hands tightly. The doctor said it was cerebral palsy. How much does it cost to treat pediatric cerebral palsy?Doctor's answer:
Prenatal factors are the most common. They include genetic and chromosomal diseases, 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 start of delivery to one week after birth. They include cerebral edema, neonatal shock, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis or central nervous system infection, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, etc. Perinatal factors may be a significant cause of cerebral palsy in premature infants. The cause of spastic childhood cerebral palsy during the postpartum period is encephalitis, meningitis, trauma, vascular accidents, and hypoxia. During the acute stage of encephalitis, motor function deficits progress as the lesion worsens. In the later stage of the acute phase, motor dysfunction is triggered by an increase in scar tissue within the brain.