Patient's question:
Due to not being in particularly good physical condition, the child had difficulty being born. For about 10 minutes, the baby's heart rate was monitored to be lower. Then, oxygen was given to the wife, and a neonatal doctor entered the delivery room to assist with the delivery. Later, the baby's heart rate returned to normal, and the doctor immediately performed warming, intubation, and sputum suction.Doctor's answer:
Pneumonia caused by aspiration. That child is experiencing hypoxia. Currently, the symptoms in the child are not obvious. They need to be older to show the symptoms. Cerebral palsy usually occurs before birth or during infancy. The causes include: birth injuries, neonatal jaundice, brain hypoxia, premature birth, etc. The main symptoms are increased muscle tone and difficulty with abduction. In severe cases, muscle rigidity, spasms, and joint flexion can be observed. In mild cases, poor fine motor skills in the hands and inability to place the heels on the ground when walking can be seen. These patients often have language development and dysarthria as well as strabismus. About one-third of patients have convulsions of varying degrees and intellectual disabilities. Cerebral palsy can cause delayed motor development. If the child is not active after three months of birth and is not very active, there may be no crawling movements of hands and feet when prone; the hands remain tense in a grasp after the baby is four to six months old. There may also be a (shānzhāng bùtài - shuffling gait) or scissors gait, etc.