Traces of the early symptoms of cerebral palsy in children

Cerebral Palsy refers to the children born before and one month after birth due to various causes of non-progressive brain injury syndrome. Complexity and diversity of its pathogenesis, mainly in three aspects: First, prenatal factors, including intrauterine infection, intrauterine growth retardation, pregnancy trauma, multiple pregnancies, etc.; second is when the production factors, mainly preterm birth, dystocia; 3 is a post-natal factors, including hyperbilirubinemia, bleeding, infection and other causes of neonatal shock, traumatic brain injury and epilepsy convulsions, etc., as well as genetic factors. In these causes of premature birth, low birth weight is the most important pathogenic factors of cerebral palsy, and the shorter the pregnancy, birth weight, the lower the higher the prevalence rate of cerebral palsy.

The early symptoms of cerebral palsy in children is very obvious that as long as the parents, careful observation to discover traces of cerebral palsy.

In the neonatal period, children showed no interest in everything around, the reaction is poor, action significantly reduced, and even the ability to have poor sucking, frequent choking. If a doctor check, but also found that feeding reflex, grasp reflex, embrace reflection and some other congenital reflex weakened, or simply does not appear.

To the infancy, the child of mental retardation and other movement problems, such as outreach difficult thigh, knee flexion is not easy straight, legs straight when erect pick up the adductor, was cross-scissors-like legs, upper elbow and wrist flexion Hand frequent fist and thumb adduction. Active exercise less, 5 months later, still can not take the initiative to reach out to crawl your favorite things, or total with one hand to grab. Abnormal reflection, that some primitive reflex delays disappear, while the normal protective reflex weakening or does not appear, may also be some pathological reflex.

Early childhood child already has a number of capacity, if an exception is easy to find. Children with limb movement disorder, do not walk or walking abnormalities, such as the toes touch the ground, scissors gait, limping and can not squat and so on, the hand movements are not flexible, can not extract by hand, or a total pick up something with one hand; there mental retardation, language retardation or language barriers, or visual abnormalities, hearing loss and so on. Emergence of cognitive and behavioral abnormalities, manifested as hyperactivity, or loneliness excitement fragility. Some children with cerebral palsy movement of hand, foot Xu, ataxia, hypotonia, and rigidity, and tremors.