Why do people mistake cerebral palsy for calcium deficiency? The emergence of cerebral palsy has put many families in distress. At the beginning of the disease, the patient will have symptoms of unstable walking and cannot hold things, many parents do not understand this disease and will think it is caused by calcium deficiency. So, why do people mistake cerebral palsy for calcium deficiency? Cerebral palsy, or cerebral palsy, is the main cause of pediatric disability. In recent years, its incidence has been increasing year by year. The latest domestic statistics show that the prevalence of cerebral palsy in children is 1.92‰, which seriously affects the quality of our population. If cerebral palsy is correctly understood, diagnosed early and treated actively, most of the cases can obtain a more satisfactory result. However, delayed diagnosis and loss of early treatment will increase the incidence of disability and worsen the degree. Unfortunately, many cases of cerebral palsy are misdiagnosed as rickets due to calcium deficiency, and as a result, the child loses the best opportunity for early treatment. Therefore, it is necessary to identify cerebral palsy and rickets at an early stage. According to the definition of cerebral palsy proposed by the National Symposium on Cerebral Palsy, cerebral palsy refers to “central movement disorders and postural abnormalities caused by non-progressive brain injury from before birth to one month after birth.” In other words, the main manifestation of children with cerebral palsy is motor impairment and postural abnormalities. The early manifestation of this motor disorder is delayed motor development, which is often referred to as “softness” by parents, such as delayed head lifting, rolling over, holding objects, and sitting. The most common postural abnormalities are head tilting back, eye strabismus, internal rotation of the upper limbs, hand back, and inward tiptoeing of the lower limbs. When asked about the medical history, most of the children have mental retardation because the mothers have a history of difficult births, and the children have been born with hypoxia and asphyxia before and after birth, and brain CT examinations also show abnormalities. Many parents think that children with calcium deficiency are “soft”, so they blindly give calcium supplements to early cerebral palsy children and delay treatment. In fact, pediatric calcium deficiency is a chronic nutritional disease caused by abnormal calcium and phosphorus metabolism due to vitamin D deficiency, which is fundamentally different from cerebral palsy. The main manifestations of rickets in infancy are crying, easy to be frightened, excessive sweating, etc. In heavy cases, there may be delayed development of movement, but all other aspects are normal, there is absolutely no abnormal posture or mental retardation, and the mother has no history of difficult delivery or cerebral hypoxia before and after birth. The key to the treatment of cerebral palsy is “early”. Within half a year of age is the fastest period of brain cell development and maturation of brain function, so the child should be given appropriate medication to promote brain metabolism and improve brain circulation, as well as oxygen absorption. For delayed movement and abnormal posture, special rehabilitation treatment, including massage, physical therapy, acupuncture, etc., is needed. Children with rickets only need more sunshine and vitamin D and calcium supplements. Parents should pay attention to their children’s growth in life, do not neglect their children’s health, and do not mistake cerebral palsy for calcium deficiency, if the child’s treatment is delayed, it will be too late to regret, cerebral palsy is not a small disease, in serious cases, the child will have intellectual problems, so that the child is discriminated against by others.