Cerebral Palsy Disorder In Infant

When cerebral palsy comes to infant then it may take a number of years to deduct the cerebral palsy symptoms and in most rare case it should be an important child should need to reach the age of 3.  Most of the time, it is more difficult to diagnosis cerebral palsy before this age. 

In the current scenario, cerebral palsy is categories into two parts known as Acquired cerebral palsy and congenital cerebral palsy.

 

Acquired Cerebral Palsy

This will occur in around 20% of all infants who suffer from this disorder and will normally have been gotten after the child has been born. This particular form of the disorder can be caused in a number of ways. The main causes are through an injury to their head or through them suffering from an infection in their brain such as bacterial meningitis both of which will result in damage occurring to the brain.

Congenital Cerebral Palsy

Of the two types of this disorder, a child can suffer from this is the more common. But with this particular form of the disorder, it takes it some time before it can be detected. Often there has been damaged caused to the motor areas of the child's brain and this can be caused by various different things.

One of the main ways that an infant will end up suffering from cerebral palsy is that they have suffered from an infection or damage has been caused to their brain whilst still in the womb. Furthermore, during the actual labor and delivery stages, a child could incur damage to the brain at this time and this will further increase the risk of them suffering from this disorder. Whilst another way in which an infant could end up suffering from cerebral palsy is if they contract jaundice and the condition is left untreated.

But unlike some other disorders including MS, this is not a deteriorative one so as the child grows up their condition will not get any worse. But for some children, their parents may notice that their motor skills and development seems to deteriorate over time and when this occurs, their doctor will carry out further to tests in order to find what other things could be causing this to happen.

Although there is, no cure for infant cerebral palsy there are many treatments, which are now, used that can help to reduce the symptoms that they suffer from. But how effective and successful the treatments are that your doctor and team of health specialists choose will depend upon the severity of the disorder. In many cerebral palsy infants can live their proper life using proper medications and treatment from the cerebral palsy doctor and specialist.