CEREBRAL PALSY IN CHILDREN // CONCEPTUAL APPROACH

Hello my dear readers who make up this platform of @ProjectHope, this time I want to share with you some information regarding cerebral palsy in children and what are the symptoms that identify this medical disorder..

Cerebral palsy is a disease that affects public health worldwide, which is why several doctors have been precursors of their research, in order to find a justification of why this disease and how to classify it, however, the first doctor who made known this condition was William Little in 1860, who through his medical research described a disorder that consisted in the immobility of muscles and affected children during their first years of life. They had problems walking, crawling or holding an article. In the following topic we will define the concept of cerebral palsy and some causes and symptoms that provoke it.

It is represented by the acronym (CP) and consists of a disorder that basically affects muscle mobility and body posture of infants, this is due as a result of some injury in the proper development of the brain, clinically known as neuromotor damage, which can originate in the first days of gestation and 5 years of infant life. Other possible reasons for this terrible condition are some inconvenience during childbirth such as lack of oxygen in the brain or postnatal as a strong infection or blows to the skull.

The main symptoms that can be observed in an infant suffering from this disorder is the difficulty that they present before the first 3 years to turn, crawl, walk or even smile, however these symptoms may vary and be more noticeable depending on the degree of damage that the child presents at the brain level.

Currently it has not been possible to define a cause for the existence of infantile cerebral palsy, however, according to the investigations of experts in the field, it has been concluded that this disease can originate during pregnancy due to lack of oxygen in the brain, exposure of the mother during pregnancy to X-rays, rubella, strong prenatal infections, blood incompatibility, diabetes, intracranial hemorrhage, among others.

Likewise, during childbirth, babies are still at risk of adopting this disease if they present some of these cases such as: perinatal asphyxia, placental abruption, blows or trauma to the head or hemorrhage.

In this sense, up to the first 5 years of life, infants are not free from the possibility of suffering from this disorder if they have cardiovascular accidents, meningitis, anoxia, intoxication, dehydration or brain trauma during their childhood.

There are also cases in which it has not been possible to determine what has been the cause of the development of this condition, it can only be confirmed that they have it due to the variations observed in the development at the cerebral level, since so far it has not been possible to confirm that this disease is of hereditary origin.

Finally, this disorder can affect any child who has been subjected to any of the causes mentioned above, but especially if they come to experience lack of oxygen in the brain, which is a common denominator in many of the risk situations that children from the time they begin to fertilize in the womb of the mother and up to approximately 5 years of age may suffer from these conditions. Subsequently we will be expanding more on this topic see you in a next delivery appreciated lectures.

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