Patient's question:
My friend may have taken birth control pills or fertility treatment medications during pregnancy, which led to the child being born with cerebral palsy. Now he regrets not checking thoroughly back then. How can this risk be avoided? What kind of help is needed: What are the causes of cerebral palsy in children?Doctor's answer:
Acute fetal intrapartum hypoxia primarily refers to acute hypoxia that occurs again during labor, leading to respiratory distress in newborns. Common causes include abnormal uterine contractions; umbilical cord abnormalities (such as excessive length or shortness, coiling, entanglement, prolapse, complete torsion, and abnormal adhesion of the umbilical cord), abnormal placental adhesion such as placenta previa, as well as dystocia, precipitate labor, breech presentation, abnormal presentation, internal version, forceps delivery, vacuum extraction, cephalopelvic disproportion, and the improper use of analgesics and anesthetics. All of these factors may lead to cerebral palsy in children.