Question

A colleague’s pregnancy lasted ten months, and the newborn baby boy did nothing but breastfeed and had a dazed look. The hospital said it was cerebral palsy. Can this condition be treated, or will it last a lifetime?

Answer

The most common prenatal factors include genetic and chromosomal disorders, congenital infections, brain malformations or developmental abnormalities, fetal brain ischemia, and hypoxia caused by periventricular leukomalacia or basal ganglia damage. Perinatal factors refer to brain injuries occurring within one week after birth, including hydrocephalus, neonatal shock, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis, or central nervous system infection, as well as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Perinatal factors may be an important cause of neonatal cerebral palsy. Essentially, it is incurable.