Question
A colleague has been pregnant for ten months, but the child born does not cry. Half a year has passed, and the child, apart from feeding, does nothing and has a dazed look. The hospital said it is cerebral palsy. Can this condition be treated, or will it be like this for life? Can neonatal cerebral palsy be treated, or will it be like this for life?
Answer
The most common prenatal factors include genetic and chromosomal disorders, congenital infections, brain malformations or developmental abnormalities, fetal brain ischemia, etc. Perinatal factors refer to brain injuries caused within one week after birth, which may include brain edema, neonatal shock, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis, or central nervous system infection, as well as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. These factors may lead to cerebral palsy in premature infants. Generally speaking, cerebral palsy is basically incurable.