What are the consequences of a lack of oxygen to the brain at birth?

Depending on the lack of oxygen, if it is only mild for a while, it is generally fine, but if it is serious, it will affect the baby's brain development.

Depending on the degree of hypoxia, mild cases are generally fine, but severe cases will affect the baby's brain development.

How can you tell if there is a lack of oxygen in the brain? What is Apgar at birth? Is it forceps delivery, and does the child have seizures or convulsions? Can you tell us more about your child's situation? A CT or MRI ultrasound of the brain is required.

Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is classified as mild, moderate, and severe.

Mild: mild, the symptoms are obvious within 24 hours after birth, the symptoms are reduced or disappear after 3 to 5 days, and there are few neurological sequelae.

Moderate: The symptoms are most obvious at 24 72 hours after birth, and gradually recover after 1 to 2 weeks, but the prognosis is poor for those who enter a shallow coma after confusion and persist for more than 5 days.

Severe: severe, symptoms are most obvious 72 hours or more after birth, coma appears. The mortality rate is high, and survivors are often left with neurological sequelae.

It's hard to say that if you have cerebral palsy in severe cases, it is recommended that you give your baby a brain booster.

If it's not particularly serious, there shouldn't be much of a problem, mainly positive**, don't leave regrets.

It may cause cerebral palsy, this should be paid attention to, and you must pay attention to **** in the early stage.

The sooner children with cerebral palsy are detected, the better the effect, and if they are over five years old, the effect is not so good. There are several easy-to-learn and reliable methods that can be used to observe and determine if a child has signs of cerebral palsy:

1. Sleeping too long or not sleeping.

2. There is no sound when crying or the crying voice is low and straight.

3. Poor swallowing.

4. The hands and feet are uncoordinated during exercise, and there are more lateral movements.

5. When peeing, you can't open your legs.

6. I can't raise my head for three months, I can't turn over for six months, and I can't sit for eight months.

7. There is no eye contact with parents, and there are often convulsions.

I think it's best to ask a doctor.

Generally, neonatal cerebral hypoxia can be divided into mild, moderate, and severe according to the score. The scoring criteria are as follows: the total score of each item in the 1-minute APGAR score is 8-10 points for no asphyxia, 4-7 points for mild asphyxia, and 0-3 points for severe asphyxia.

Generally, a score of 8 or more indicates normality.

A score of more than 7 is mild cerebral hypoxia, timely**, the prognosis is good, and there are generally no sequelae.

4 to 6 is moderate hypoxia (asphyxia), which usually recovers within a short time with aggressive treatment.

When it is less than 4 minutes, it shows severe hypoxic asphyxia and respiratory depression. At this time, the doctor must perform emergency resuscitation to have a chance of improvement, otherwise it is difficult for the newborn to survive.

Even if a newborn baby survives with a low score 10 minutes after birth and has not yet established normal and effective breathing, the brain cells are damaged due to prolonged hypoxia and can cause sequelae such as mental retardation or movement disorders in the future. Sick babies have low resistance and are prone to aspiration pneumonia, neonatal scleredema, hypocalcemia, hypoglycemia, neonatal intracranial hemorrhage and body infections.

The baby's growth is delayed, slow response, muscle weakness, convulsions, bone mutations, baby's nervous system will mutate, drooling are some of the symptoms that will occur in the early stage.

The child's breathing is not smooth, the face is often red, the eyes will be bloodshot, the mood will be more excited, there will also be a feeling of drowsiness, and there will be impaired consciousness.

Irregular breathing, over-excited, pupils are unfocused, easily irritated, the body trembles, and the baby will be very uncomfortable when he is just hypoxic.

I think there are symptoms of weakness in the limbs, symptoms of hot-headedness, symptoms of dizziness, symptoms of numbness in the limbs, and symptoms of loss of appetite.

Symptoms of anemia may be present. There are also symptoms of dizziness, frequent vomiting, diarrhea, and shortness of breath.

Symptoms such as difficulty breathing, bluish complexion, purple lips, irritability, drowsiness, and spitting up may occur.