Why are there more and more children with cerebral palsy?

  Why are there more and more children with cerebral palsy in modern society? Firstly, the improvement of diagnostic technology has led to more children with cerebral palsy being found; secondly, the improvement of medical science has enabled the birth of some babies with high risk of cerebral palsy such as developmental incompetence or premature babies. Originally, medically speaking, miscarriage is a natural phenomenon which makes some embryos with unsound development or weak vitality to eliminate themselves under the natural rules.  But now, the use of various fertility drugs and techniques has allowed the retention of individuals who should have been eliminated, with the consequence that more defective individuals are born. However, this involves many issues such as ethics, and there is no unified academic consensus.  Pediatric cerebral palsy is a serious neurological condition in which damage to immature brain tissue before and after birth can stunt brain development, causing the child to be unable to control his or her posture and movement during future development.  There are many causes of cerebral palsy. Before the child is born, the causes are mainly fetal infection, hypoxia, developmental malformation and some congenital genetic diseases; mother’s early pregnancy fever infection, X-ray irradiation, smoking and drinking, poisoning in middle and late pregnancy, diabetes or abdominal trauma, etc.; when the child is born, if too much amniotic fluid is inhaled, causing amniotic fluid blockage, fetal fecal inhalation, umbilical cord wrapping around the neck, etc., causing fetal asphyxia. resulting in cerebral hypoxia and ischemia; birth injuries due to obstructed labor and delivery; after birth, severe infections, jaundice, trauma, intracranial hemorrhage, and seizures may lead to cerebral palsy in the child.  To treat cerebral palsy, it is necessary to strictly observe the multi-stage principle of cerebral palsy treatment, a certain period of growth and development and progression of the disease, with surgical intervention work, a clear treatment plan, according to the programmed and standardized. The principle of rehabilitation → FSPR surgery → rehabilitation-orthopedic surgery → rehabilitation must be adhered to.  The treatment of cerebral palsy is a realistic process. It is not objective and scientific to emphasize one-sidedly how a certain method is magical or how the application of a certain technique will bring a once-and-for-all effect. At present, although the level of treatment for cerebral palsy has made great progress, it is still important to follow the principles of treatment and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment in a realistic manner, and not to overstate the efficacy and thus mislead the treatment.  However, there are ways to treat cerebral palsy, and it is important to have a positive attitude and not to be overly pessimistic and lose confidence. If this is the case, treatment will be delayed and will cause lifelong regrets. The key is to take the most suitable method of intervention at different stages in order to receive the best treatment effect. Therefore, targeted treatment programs must be adopted under a standardized and scientific management system at present. The treatment of cerebral palsy should be carried out completely according to the model of European and American countries, so as to avoid the many disadvantages of the surgical treatment of cerebral palsy over the years that have brought adverse consequences to the children.  Although pediatric cerebral palsy is not an easy disease to treat and requires long-term rehabilitation, it is not an incurable disease and has the potential to improve. The active cooperation of the parents and good home care are also the guarantee for the recovery of the child with cerebral palsy, so the parents should have enough patience and energy and cooperate with the rehabilitation.  There was a time in the past when pediatric cerebral palsy was considered an untreatable disease. One of the reasons was that the medical level at that time had not yet caught up; the other was that people at that time felt that cerebral palsy was due to brain damage and it was impossible to redeem. In fact, although the treatment of pediatric cerebral palsy is still difficult today, it is not incurable. As long as the best treatment time is grasped and scientific and standardized treatment methods are used, the ideal recovery effect will be seen.