Patient's question:
A colleague carried the baby for ten months, but the child didn't cry when born and turned out to be a boy. After half a year, the child only does nothing but feeding, with vacant eyes. The hospital diagnosed it as cerebral palsy. Can such a condition be treated, or will the child be like this for life?Doctor's answer:
Prenatal factors are the most common, including genetic and chromosomal diseases, congenital infections, brain malformations or developmental abnormalities, fetal brain ischemia, and hypoxia caused by periventricular leukomalacia or basal ganglia damage. Perinatal factors refer to brain injuries that occur within one week of birth, including brain edema, neonatal shock, intracerebral hemorrhage, sepsis or central nervous system infection, as well as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Perinatal factors may be a significant cause of cerebral palsy in premature infants. Essentially, they are difficult to treat.