Question
What symptoms will a newborn with infantile cerebral palsy typically exhibit?
Answer
Common symptoms of infantile cerebral palsy include:
- Feeding difficulties such as weak suckling, swallowing disorders, and nursing challenges such as frequent regurgitation and continuous weight loss. Common oral and facial function disorders, with some children showing significant or irregular contractions of facial and tongue muscles, leading to difficulties chewing and swallowing, inability to close the mouth, and frequent drooling.
- Movement disorders characterized by poor self-control of movement, severe cases unable to grasp objects with hands, unable to walk with feet, and even unable to turn over, sit up, or stand, usually unable to chew and swallow. Common abnormal muscle tone and abnormal postures, such as flexion of hands and fingers, tightly closed fists.