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, and she also clenched her hands tightly all the time. 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, including 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, including cerebral edema, neonatal shock, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis or central nervous system infection, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, etc. Perinatal factors may be a major cause of cerebral palsy in premature infants. The causes of spastic childhood cerebral palsy during the postnatal period include encephalitis, meningitis, trauma, vascular accidents, and hypoxia. During the acute stage of encephalitis, motor function defects progress as the damage worsens. In the later stage of the acute phase, motor dysfunction is triggered by an increase in scar tissue within the brain.