Cerebral palsy, symptoms, mechanism of origin, causes

Children's cerebral palsy (cerebral palsy) is the most common form of childhood disability. The essence of the disease clearly indicates its translation, "brain relaxation." Causes of cerebral palsy occur during pregnancy, childbirth, in infancy and lie in the defeat of one or many areas of the brain. As a result, there is a violation in motor and muscle activity.

In order to understand the mechanisms of development of cerebral palsy, the symptoms of the disease, it is necessary to find out the reasons for its occurrence.

Cerebral Palsy does not apply to infectious or hereditary diseases. As the child grows, it does not develop and does not progress. But if you ignore cerebral palsy, symptoms and rehabilitation, this can lead to the acquisition of new diseases, for example, scoliosis. With adequate care for children with cerebral palsy, their condition improves noticeably, life enters a different direction. When studying the mechanisms of cerebral palsy, the reasons are as follows:

• Hypoxia of the child (lack of oxygen), ischemia (insufficient blood supply). This happens either during the bearing of the child, or during childbirth.
• Started or not completely cured infection in the mother during pregnancy or infection received by the child in the first days of life;
• Intoxication, caused by different ways, in the mother and, consequently, passed on to the baby. This may be the result of taking strong drugs, including psychoactive, or harmful working conditions.
• Traumatizing the child (in childbirth or in early childhood).

Signs of cerebral palsy begin to appear already at an early age, almost from birth. Under normal development unconditioned reflexes almost disappear at the age of six months, in the case of cerebral palsy this factor is delayed. When a child reaches the age of one and a half years, the predominant activity of only one hand is observed, which is a signal of a probable pathology of the muscles and an early sign of cerebral palsy.

Symptoms of cerebral palsy are very diverse. In lighter forms, they look like low-noticeable clumsiness, and in more serious forms take the form of muscle spasms. This does not allow the child to move freely and permanently makes him the owner of a wheelchair. The severity of cerebral palsy, the symptom of cerebral palsy is directly related to the extent of brain damage. Damage can be manifested inactive, so that they will hardly be noticeable even to a specialist, but can greatly progress and be obvious to others. With age, the symptoms of cerebral palsy manifest themselves to a greater extent (during active development of the nervous system).

The manifestation of cerebral palsy, the symptoms of the disease are divided into primary and secondary.

The primary symptoms include the following:

1. Later, head incontinence, physical inability to turn over.
2. Insufficient activity or complete absence of grasping reflexes.
3. Lack of normal physical activity inherent in this particular age.
4. Presence of unconditioned reflexes in a child with cerebral palsy at the age in which a healthy child is no longer present.
5. Muscular insufficiency, abnormality of development. It manifests itself in different ways, in the form of lethargy or on the contrary, with strong spasms.
6. Motor pathology. It manifests itself in the form of unnecessary excess movements.
7. Poor coordination of movements, sometimes walking on tiptoe.

The secondary signs of cerebral palsy are later and severe pathologies. These are muscle cramps, backwardness of mental development, insufficiency of hearing organs, vision, skeletal anomalies, for example, underdevelopment of the limbs.

Taking into account all the accumulated medical experience, today we can state a sad fact that CP is still incurable. Progression of the disease and alleviation of the symptoms of the disease can be minimized by the timely detection of signs and adequate treatment.