Patient's question:
Discovered that the child walks with the feet landing on the toes, which is different from other children. I want to know if it's cerebral palsy. Please ask what causes cerebral palsy in children?Doctor's answer:
There are many reasons why children may develop cerebral palsy, which are summarized as follows: parental smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, maternal mental illness, diabetes during pregnancy, vaginal bleeding, high blood pressure diseases that complicate pregnancy, placenta previa, threatened miscarriage, or the use of contraceptives or infertility drugs, high birth weight, premature birth, history of miscarriage, twins or multiple births, fetal growth retardation, intrauterine infection, fetal distress, placental abruption, placental dysfunction, nuchal cord, forceps delivery, long breech delivery, postpartum asphyxial pneumonia in premature or low birth weight infants, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, kernicterus, intracranial hemorrhage, infection, toxicity, and malnutrition.