What are the adverse effects of cerebral palsy in children?

1.Weakness and decreased spontaneous movements.

This is a symptom of hypotonia and can be seen as early as one month. If it persists for more than 4 months, it can be diagnosed with severe brain injury, mental retardation, or diseases of the muscular system.

2.The body is stiff.

This is a symptom of hypertonia and can be seen as early as a month. If it persists for more than 4 months, cerebral palsy is diagnosed.

3.Unresponsive and unresponsive.

This is an early manifestation of mental retardation, which is generally considered to be unresponsive at 4 months and unresponsive at 6 months, and is diagnosed as mental retardation.

4.Abnormal head circumference.

Head circumference is an objective indicator of brain morphological development, and children with brain injury often have abnormal head circumference.

5.Poor weight gain, weakness in lactation.

6.Fixed posture.

It is often caused by abnormal muscle tone due to brain injury, such as angular arch reflexion, frog position, and inverted U-shaped posture. It can be seen in the first month of life.

7.Don't laugh. If you can't smile for 2 months and laugh out loud for 4 months, mental retardation is diagnosed.

8.Hands clenched into fists.

If the finger is not open for 4 months, or if the thumb is adducted, especially if one of the upper limbs is present, it is important to be diagnostic.

9.Body twisting.

3 Torsion in 4-month-old infants often indicates extrapituitary injury.

10.Head instability.

For example, the inability to raise the head when lying prone for 4 months or the inability to sit with the head upright is often an important sign of brain injury.

11.Strabismus.

Strabismus and poor eye movements in 3 to 4-month-old infants may indicate the presence of brain injury.

12.You can't reach for anything.

If you are unable to reach for 4 to 5 months, you can be diagnosed with mental retardation or cerebral palsy.

13.Look at the hand.

If it persists after 6 months, mental retardation may be considered. Some brain injuries are mild and often asymptomatic in early infancy, but in the second half of infancy (6-12 months).

Muscle tone changes during exercise and disappears at rest. Involuntary movements, especially the upper limbs, may also be seen frowning, blinking, mouth opening, neck muscle contraction, and face tilted to one side. Due to the shaking of the upper limbs, the trunk and lower limbs can lose their balance and they are prone to falling.

The whole body is stiff, easy to straighten, there is increased muscle tone, often out of the swaddling clothes and the head is dorsiflexed, sometimes the head is tilted to one side, and the lower limbs are stiff and extended; whether there are signs such as startles, convulsions, screaming, or irritability; Whether there is abnormal posture, such as upper limb adduction, internal rotation, hand clenching into fists, etc.

Newborn 6 months: the baby will not look up after 100 days; eye strabismus, the eyeball cannot be traced; Doesn't reach out to grab objects; 4 5 months will not turn over; There is an angular arch reflex pose. Abnormal muscle tone.

This refers to the fact that most children with cerebral palsy have high muscle tone, which is so high that the limbs are stiff and the whole body is stiff and tight; Of course, there are also a small number of children with very low muscle tone, so low that the muscles are weak and weak. In short, it's just not right.

Spastic cerebral palsy: the incidence is the highest, accounting for 60%-70% of all patients, mainly manifested as central nervous system paralysis, increased muscle tone of the affected limb, limited limb movement, abnormal posture, hyperreflexia of the deep tendons, etc., and manifested clubfoot, O-shaped leg, foot varus, foot valgus, scissor gait. Able to extend the upper limbs and maintain balance; At 9 months, when the child is in a prone suspended position, it is normal for children to do a sudden descending action, and the child's "parachute" reflex, that is, the two upper limbs are stretched forward, while the protective reflexes and the ability to maintain balance above the child with cerebral palsy are weakened or disappeared.

Newborns have high muscle tone, and if the baby can release his hands and stretch his fingers when he is asleep, then there is no problem. It is beneficial to insist on giving your child passive exercises every day to reduce muscle tension and insist on taking your child to swim. I hope it can help you, don't be too anxious because I was severely burned by a cold, and my cranial nerves were burned out, and I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy by a doctor.

Her daughter is eight years old and can't walk or speak. It took a lot of money, and now it's a little bit better. But many people are deeply worried about what will happen to her daughter in the future.

Language disorder: In clinical practice, it is found that most children with cerebral palsy will have symptoms of language disorder, some children may only show difficulty in language expression or language formation, some children will manifest as unclear pronunciation or stuttering, and some children will have aphasia, that is, children can understand other people's language, but they cannot control their brains and cannot speak, especially in the hands of athetular cerebral palsy.

1. Poor self-control of exercise, in severe cases, they will not be able to grasp things with their hands, their feet will not walk, and some will not even turn over, sit up, stand, chew and swallow normally. 2. Abnormal posture, poor stability of posture, 3 months still unable to straighten the head, accustomed to bias to one side, or left and right back and forth. Children don't like bathing, and it's not easy to break their fists when washing their hands.

3. Head instability, such as not being able to raise your head when lying prone for 4 months or not being able to stand upright when sitting, is often an important sign of brain injury.

Specific symptoms: When standing, the toes usually touch the ground and turn inward, the heels do not touch the ground, the muscles of the lower limbs are highly tense, and the feet begin to swell from the toes to the entire foot shape, like a radish. The baby will be very painful and cannot stand for a long time, so it will not be able to remain stable, if breastfeeding is difficult because the baby will not suck after birth, sucking weakness or refusal of breast milk, or fatigue and weakness after breastfeeding; If you are excessively silent, crying in a low voice, or crying continuously; If there is little spontaneous activity, low muscle tone, weakness of the body, difficulty in fighting, the main site of injury in spastic cerebral palsy is the pyramidal system. Therefore, the main manifestations are increased muscle tone, increased muscle tone during passive movement "folding knife", narrow bands of joint movement, dyskinesia, abnormal posture, due to increased flexor muscle tone, ELA is mainly manifested in flexor muscles, the so-called reverse motor development, refers to the fact that in terms of movement, the development of children with cerebral palsy is very slow. For example, the common "three lifts, four turns, six turns, seven bears, eight scales, and nine weeks standing" are all later than normal children, because only parents with slow engine development need to pay attention.

First of all, cerebral palsy, also known as infantile cerebral palsy, commonly known as cerebral palsy, refers to a syndrome of postural motor dysfunction caused by non-progressive brain injury in the immature stage of brain development within one month after birth. Compared with normal children, children with cerebral palsy showed different degrees of engine development delay, such as gross movements, how to raise the head, sitting alone, climbing, standing, walking, etc.; The movement of the fingers is also kept behind the normal when binding things.

Speech is not clear, development is slow, intelligence is relatively low, facial expressions are stiff, and body language is strange.

Can drool, can't take care of himself, can't speak, can't laugh, can't act on his own, has no opinions.

Often crying, chewing and swallowing skills are particularly poor, sleep disorders, sensitive to noise, often drooling, mental development is relatively slow, there will be weakness of limbs, hearing or visual impairment.

If the child has cerebral palsy, the limbs will be stiff, the limb performance will be poor, the head will shake back and forth, the head will be unsteady, the eyes will be sluggish and not moving, it will be difficult to swallow when feeding, and the language ability is poor.

Symptoms such as slow movements, slurred pronunciation, mental retardation, slow development, and inability to eat and swallow normally.

The child's development will become very slow, slow to speak, unwilling to communicate with others, dull eyes, inconvenient movement, it may be because of cerebral palsy after the compression of nerves, so it will be like this.

The symptoms that are prone to appear should be dull eyes, particularly stunted development, and unable to speak or walk, and it is possible that he can't do what a normal baby should do. And sometimes they will drool all the time, or they don't have the ability to think for themselves at all. There is also no imitation power.

It will lead to the continuous decline of the child's memory, and then it will also lead to the child's expression is very trance-like, and the child's behavior will be very strange, which will affect the child's normal life.

First of all, there will be movement disorders, and then it will be particularly difficult to feed, and the child will cry easily, be easily irritable, and cannot respond to stress.

Clinical classification of cerebral palsy.

Due to the diversity of cerebral palsy**, the clinical manifestations are varied, and the clinical manifestations vary with age, and the clinical classification is divided into five types.

Spastic cerebral palsy.

is the most typical and common type. The main manifestations are spastic paraplegia and quadriplegia mainly in both lower limbs. The child has difficulty walking and standing, and walks with a scissor gait on tiptoe.

Muscle tone is markedly increased, tendon reflexes are hyperactive, and pathological reflexes may be present. It is often accompanied by speech and intellectual disabilities.

Dystonic cerebral palsy.

It is more common in young children and is characterized by a marked decrease in muscle tone. Unable to stand and walk, unable to lift the head and neck, obvious dyskinesia, excessive range of motion of the joints, but active tendon reflexes, pathological reflexes may occur. It is often accompanied by aphasia and mental retardation.

Athetoid cerebral palsy.

It is mostly caused by damage to the basal nucleus caused by kernicterus and neonatal asphyxia. The child presents with choresa or athetous movements of the face, tongue, lips, and trunk limbs. with dyskinesia and increased muscle tone.

Ataxia cerebral palsy.

Less common, it is due to cerebellar dysplasia, and the main clinical manifestations are hypotonia, ataxia, intention tremor, dysarthria, and motor delay.

Hybrid. It has some of the characteristics of each of the above types.

Regardless of the type of cerebral palsy, the installation of a dissociative brain pacemaker can reduce muscle tone, improve language function and intellectual impairment, and support the development of infants and young children.

The problem is complex and cannot be easily located! It is best to do an MRI of the brain and a chromosomal examination.