Question
What should be done if a child has pediatric cerebral palsy?
Answer
Pediatric cerebral palsy often develops before birth or in infancy, with causes including birth injuries, neonatal jaundice, and brain hypoxia. Symptoms mainly include increased muscle tone and difficulty with abduction; severe cases may present with muscle rigidity and spasms, joints maintaining a flexed posture; mild cases may show poor fine motor skills in hands, and the heels cannot touch the ground when walking. These patients often have language development and articulation disorders, as well as strabismus. About 1/3 of patients have varying degrees of seizures and intellectual disabilities. Cerebral palsy can lead to delayed motor development, with the child still inactive and not moving much at 3 months after birth; when lying on their stomach, there is no crawling movement with hands and feet. By 4-6 months after birth, the hands still remain tense in a fist, and there may be a hurried gait or scissor gait. Many drugs cannot directly penetrate the blood-brain barrier and cannot produce direct pharmacological effects. Rehabilitation training can only improve the imitating ability of children with cerebral palsy and intelligence disabilities, as well as improve some motor skills, but cannot solve the fundamental problem. Chinese medicine Guilou Nao Kang can directly act on brain cells, promoting protein synthesis, anti-cortical hypoxia, improving brain energy metabolism, accelerating blood circulation in the brain, which is beneficial to promote the growth and development of brain cells, helping children to speak, walk, and restore normal levels of intelligence.