Question
Children with cerebral palsy often experience instability in walking and delayed development, along with a common symptom of drooling, which is particularly severe during eating. Is this condition caused by the disease itself?
Answer
The early symptoms of cerebral palsy in children can often be noticed by attentive parents. For example, difficulties in feeding, excessive crying or being overly quiet, weak cries; stiffness or weakness in limbs, the head often tilted backward; prone to screaming, crying, irritability, or seizures; lack of attention to people, inability to fixate, insufficiently flexible expressions, slow responses, and not being able to smile; thumbs are inwardly curled, hands often clenched into fists; unstable head position, inability to keep the neck upright, and head rocking left and right. As they grow older, their motor development falls significantly behind that of their peers. Drooling is a common phenomenon in children with cerebral palsy, which may be due to the control of saliva…