Question
Due to poor physical condition, the child’s birth was difficult. Approximately 10 minutes into the monitoring, the child’s heart rate decreased. Oxygen was administered to the mother, a neonatologist entered the delivery room to assist, and later the child’s heart rate returned to normal. The doctor immediately provided warmth, intubation, and sputum aspiration treatment.
Answer
Inhalation pneumonia. The child experienced hypoxia; currently, the symptoms are not obvious in small children and can only be noticed as they grow older. Cerebral palsy often occurs before or during infancy, with causes including birth trauma, neonatal jaundice, brain hypoxia; premature birth, etc. Symptoms mainly include increased muscle tone, difficulty with abduction, and in severe cases, muscle rigidity, spasms, and joints maintaining a Bend posture. In mild cases, there may be poor fine motor skills in the hands and difficulty placing the heel down while walking. Such patients often have language development and articulation disorders as well as strabismus, with about 1/3 of patients experiencing varying degrees of seizures and intellectual disabilities. Cerebral palsy can lead to delayed motor development. By three months of age, if the child is still inactive and not very active, there will be no crawling movements when lying on the stomach; by four to six months after birth, the hands may still be clenched tightly. There may be anxious gait and scissor gait, etc.