Symptoms of Cerebral Palsy

Symptoms of Cerebral Palsy

Symptoms of cerebral palsy are more obvious in newborn babies but parents tend to think that these symptoms are simple slow development, eventually missing the best treatment time. Parents shall take a look and carefully understand symptoms of cerebral palsy.

Main symptoms of cerebral palsy

1. Movement disorder

When moving, their hands and feet are not coordinated and they are physically weak. Patients can’t grasp objects with their hands, can’t walk with feet, even are unable to roll over, sit up or stand and can’t chew or swallow normally.

2. Disorder of gestures

Patients have gesture abnormalities and poor posture stability and still can’t raise head straightly when they are three months old. Head tends to lean on one side or sways back and forth. Patients are unable to turn over when six months old and can’t sit steadily. Children with cerebral palsy don’t like bath and it is difficult to break their fist apart when washing hands.

3. Mental retardation

   Among all infants with cerebral palsy, about 1/4 children have normal intelligence, about 1/2 children have mild and moderate deficiency in intelligence and children with serious intelligence deficiency accounts for about 1/4. Mental retardation is one of main symptoms of cerebral palsy.

4. Language disorder

Difficulty in language expression, asophia or stammering.

5. Visual or auditory disorder

More than half of patients are accompanied by vision disorder and the most common symptoms are esotropia of eyeball and ametropia, such as short-sighted, and amblyopia and some patients have nystagmus and even total blindness. Children with hemiplegia may suffer from homonymous hemianopsia. Some affected children have hearing impairment and even become totally deaf.

6. Aberration in tooth development

Teeth are loose and easily broken. Facial muscles and tongue muscles sometimes have spasm or uncoordinated contraction and patients have difficult in chewing, swallowing and closure of mouths and show drooling.

7. Emotional and behavioral disorder

Patients may be obstinate, capricious, irritable and isolated, have a great fluctuation of mood and sometimes even show compulsive and self-injurious behavior.

In a word, main symptoms of cerebral palsy include: movement disorder, language disorder, mental retardation, vision disorder, hearing disorder and emotional disorder.

Harms of cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy causes that newborn babies loss movement ability and their intelligence can’t develop. Harms of cerebral palsy can be divided into four grades according to its degree. Among which, level 1 and level 2 belongs to mild movement disorder and level 3 and level 4 are severe movement disorder.

Level 1: Patients have difficult in movement but their daily life will not be affected, such as that walking, climbing stairs or operations with hands are unrestricted.

Level 2: Movements of hands are limited and their daily life are affected, but they still can walk independently and hold objects.

Level 3: Patients are unable to walk before five years old but can crawl or turn around. They can’t hold objects but can hold on to objects.

Level 4: Loss major movement functions

Experts of Guangzhou Meyo Stem Cell Hospital express that: It is very important to understand various symptoms of cerebral palsy, find diseases in a timely manner and receive proper treatment.