What to Expect when your Child get Cerebral Palsy

Many people with cerebral palsy do not have fully developed organs. If you get an infection while pregnant, be sure that doctor takes your concerns seriously. If your baby comes too early, the day the baby is born you are wracked with fear, anger and disbelief, or this wasn't what you had envisioned for the arrival day of your new baby, be careful with cerebral palsy syndrome. Most adults with cerebral palsy will experience premature ageing of their body organ systems by the time they reach 40 (such as arteries, veins, and the heart).

Books to Read :
Nathan's Wish: A Story about Cerebral Palsy
Understanding Cerebral Palsy: A Guide for Parents and Professionals (JKP Essentials)
Someone Like Me: An Unlikely Story of Challenge and Triumph Over Cerebral Palsy

Post Impairment Syndrome

Most adults with cerebral palsy will experience post-impairment syndrome, which may include fatigue, muscle weakness, arthritis, and repetitive strain injury.  There are two factors that indicate potential danger during a prolonged labor, such as water broke and your doctor didn't make sure that you delivered within 24 hours, or baby got "stuck" in the birth canal with no oxygen supply. Some studies suggest that cesarean delivery may prevent medical conditions like cerebral palsy. All maternal infections during pregnancy can pose long-term health risks to your baby, one of them related with developing cerebral palsy. 

Smoking and Alcohol Co relation

Smoking during pregnancy is also a risk factor for premature birth. Maternal consumption of drugs and/or alcohol poisons your baby and seriously affects her nervous system, blood vessels, and internal organs.  Babies who survive being born prematurely and at low birth-weight are at risk of other serious health problems.

How to Deal With Cerebral Palsy

The challenges of living with a chronic condition such as cerebral palsy can cause stress and anxiety, which in turn can trigger depression. People with cerebral palsy use up to three times the energy required for walking than normal person. Adults with cerebral palsy should avoid activities that could further damage their organs, such as smoking, drinking an excessive amount of alcohol and eating a high-fat diet. Further physiotherapy and equipment can assist relieve some of these cerebral palsy symptom. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be effective in helping people fight their depression and cope better with their condition.

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There are increased risk of prenatally acquired cerebral palsy in children of mothers with an alcohol-use disorder. Heavy alcohol use during pregnancy has been shown to damage fetal organs. Cigarette smoking by the pregnant mother can lead to a low birth weight, which is also associated with cerebral palsy. Basically, any factors that may affect the fetus’ weight (which ultimately affects its brain size), or brain, are suspect in making a cerebral palsy diagnosis. 

Alcohol Correlation?
As cerebral palsy is very rare, research examining this association is difficult to undertake and previous studies had small numbers of children with cerebral palsy. The brain of the fetus is at risk when other factors such as alcohol use, cigarette smoking, malnutrition, and use of cocaine or crack can all be contributing factors in the development of a baby who will eventually have cerebral palsy. 

Books to Read
Nathan's Wish: A Story about Cerebral Palsy
Understanding Cerebral Palsy: A Guide for Parents and Professionals (JKP Essentials)
Someone Like Me: An Unlikely Story of Challenge and Triumph Over Cerebral Palsy

Brain Damage?

Another risk factor that seems to play a role in babies who develop Celebral Palsy is the health and social habits of the mother. In rare cases, if the pregnant mother has a severe physical trauma the brain of the fetus could be affected. Social habits in maternal era like consumption of drugs and/or alcohol (from foods and liquors) can make severe impact to your baby and seriously affects her nervous system, blood vessels, and internal organs. These impacts significantly increase your baby's chances of having a low birth weight and brain damage.

Result 

Newborns with poorly formed organs like the heart, kidneys, and spine are also more at risk for developing cerebral palsy most likely because of the likelihood of a badly formed brain in conjunction with the other organs. If you smoke, drink alcohol, or use any illicit drug, you are putting your child at risk for potentially permanent and devastating health problems. If you are already pregnant, it's not too late to stop exposing yourself and your baby to these potential hazards. The sooner you stop, the better for you and your baby. And if you plan to get pregnant, now is the time to start protecting your unborn child. Other risk factors for cerebral palsy include: the mother is over 40 years old or under 20, the father is under 20, African American ethnicity, the child is either a firstborn or fifth-born, and if the child is one of a twin, and especially if the other twin had died. It should be noted that these are risk factors, and not determinants, of cerebral palsy.

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Cerebral palsy caused by damage to the cerebrum, which is also responsible for human memory, ability to learn, and communication skills. Some people with cerebral palsy have problems with communication and learning. Cerebrum damage, which is in relation with brain damage, can sometimes affect vision and hearing. Less than one tenth of cerebral palsy cases were caused by oxygen deprivation during birth. 
Most cases of damage to the brain among cerebral palsy children occurred before born, the first six months of pregnancy, and the risk of cerebral palsy will be increases dramatically if a pregnant woman catches rubella (Germ measles), smokes, drinks heavily, or diabetes.

Books to read : 

Nathan's Wish: A Story about Cerebral Palsy
Understanding Cerebral Palsy: A Guide for Parents and Professionals (JKP Essentials)
Someone Like Me: An Unlikely Story of Challenge and Triumph Over Cerebral Palsy

Bleeding in the brain can stop the supply of blood to vital brain tissue, which consequently becomes damaged or dies. The escaped blood itself can clot and damage surrounding tissue. Lack of oxygen may have caused destruction of the unborn baby's brain cells, that's why pregnant woman ar not allowed to smoke while pregnant, and avoid being to close from smoking people. If you are already pregnant, try to stay as healthy as possible. 

Cerebral palsy treatment aim is to help the child achieve as much independence as possible throughout his/her life. In the early development stage of life, cerebral palsy people indicated by abnormal muscle tone, reflexes, or motor development and coordination. Anything tends to cause either a premature birth or a low-weight baby who is not developed enough to cope with the stresses of life outside the womb will raise the risk of cerebral palsy.

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