Question
My cousin’s child is a cerebral palsy sufferer.
Answer
Hello, there are many causes of cerebral palsy, but more than 1/3 of cases may not have a found cause. Sometimes, some cases may also involve multiple factors. The most common prenatal factors include genetic and chromosomal diseases, congenital infections, brain developmental malformations or dysplasia, fetal brain ischemia and hypoxia leading to periventricular leukomalacia or basal ganglia damage, etc. Perinatal factors refer to brain injuries occurring from the beginning of labor to one week after birth, including hydrocephalus, neonatal shock, intracranial hemorrhage, sepsis, or central nervous system infection, ischemic hypoxic encephalopathy, etc. Perinatal factors may be an important cause of cerebral palsy in premature infants. Factors after late neonates include various causes of non-progressive brain damage occurring from 1 week to 3 or 4 years of age, such as central nervous system infections, cerebrovascular diseases, cranial trauma, poisoning, etc. For the treatment of cerebral palsy, it is currently recommended to adopt traditional Chinese medicine treatment, utilizing Chinese medicine and herbs to improve and alleviate the patient’s condition.