Infantile cerebral palsy can be judged according to the infant’s symptoms, signs and auxiliary examinations.
1. Symptoms and manifestations: motor abnormality manifested by backward motor development, reduced active movement, elevated or low muscle tone; postural abnormality manifested by head tilt in supine position, difficulty in extending or raising the head of the lower limbs; crossing the legs in scissors shape and drooping of the toes in the upright hanging position; lower limbs in an X shape when walking, and so on. Reflex abnormalities such as delayed disappearance of primary reflexes, weakened or delayed appearance of protective reflexes.
2. Physical signs: Spastic cerebral palsy may be characterized by increased muscle tone, hyperreflexia, hyperreflexia, ankle clonus, folding knife sign and pyramidal tract sign. Involuntary movement type cerebral palsy, muscle tone may be high or low, tendon reflexes are normal, speech disorder, and hypotonia in infancy. Ataxic cerebral palsy may be characterized by closed eyes, positive finger-nose test, normal tendon reflexes and low muscle tone.
3. Auxiliary examination: Electroencephalogram shows diffuse low-voltage dysrhythmia, with slow basic rhythm, irregular waveforms, and an increase in slow waveforms, which appear diffusely on both sides. Cranial MRI showed enlarged ventricles, widened subarachnoid space, reduced extent of cerebral white matter, softening of cerebral white matter around the ventricles, gray matter involvement in the basal ganglia region, low-signal changes, and formation of cerebral foramina.
Parents are advised to pay more attention to their infants, take care of them carefully, feed them reasonably, and prevent the occurrence of traumatic brain injury, intracranial infection and other diseases. If infants are found to have the above abnormal symptoms, they should be sent to the doctor for examination and treatment as prescribed by the doctor after a clear diagnosis is made.