Patient's question:
My child is now 8 months old. I don't know if the occasional crying is normal, as he spends his days eating dinner and taking naps. Yesterday, after a thorough examination at the children's hospital, it was determined that he has cerebral palsy. I don't know if his lack of response is due to this reason. What kind of help is needed: What is the reason why children with cerebral palsy never speak?Doctor's answer:
There are many causes of cerebral palsy, but in more than 1/3 of cases, the cause cannot be identified. Antenatal factors are common, including hereditary diseases such as intergenerational inheritance and chromosomal disorders, congenital infections, brain developmental malformations or dysplasia, periventricular leukomalacia or basal ganglia damage caused by fetal brain ischemia and hypoxia. Perinatal factors refer to brain injuries that occur again between the onset of labor and one week after birth, including cerebral edema, neonatal shock, sepsis or central nervous system infections, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, etc. Perinatal factors may be a significant cause of cerebral palsy in premature infants.