Patient's question:
The child of a friend was doing well at birth, but when they started going to the hospital for check-ups at two months, the doctor said they had developmental delay. They thought it was just because they weren't eating enough and went for a comprehensive check-up at the hospital, after which it was diagnosed as cerebral palsy. What kind of help is desired: What are the causes of infantile cerebral palsy?Doctor's answer:
Cerebral palsy in children is a shortened form of the term "brain paralysis," referring to a disease where children develop non-progressive, central motor dysfunction and paralysis due to damage to brain tissue caused by various factors such as infection, bleeding, or trauma. It is mostly associated with factors like the mother smoking or being passively exposed to smoke during pregnancy, excessive alcohol consumption, improper medication use, exposure to toxic substances, infection with toxoplasmosis, suffering from rheumatism, threatened miscarriage, having pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome, poor placental function, and the mother being advanced in age.