Question
What are the causes of pediatric cerebral palsy?
Answer
The causes of cerebral palsy in children include genetic factors, prenatal factors, perinatal factors, and the impact of neonatal diseases. The most common cause is hypoxia in premature infants leading to cerebral palsy. This is directly related to brain hypoxia, brain infection, brain trauma, and brain hemorrhage, such as early pregnancy rubella, herpes zoster, or toxoplasmosis, severe infections during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy, severe preeclampsia syndrome, and pathological dystocia, all of which can lead to neonatal cerebral palsy.