Children with cerebral palsy need calcium supplements

  According to the survey, 90% of children with cerebral palsy are treated as calcium deficiency, resulting in missing the best treatment period. The early symptoms of cerebral palsy are very similar to rickets, which are crying, easy to be frightened, sweating, and using strength, etc. Some parents habitually think that the child’s softness, paralysis, and cramps are rickets and caused by calcium deficiency, so they blindly buy a lot of calcium preparations for the early cerebral palsy children and supplement calcium. The best time for treatment is delayed.  In fact, the real cause of the child’s “softness” and “paralysis” is cerebral palsy. Children with cerebral palsy need early comprehensive rehabilitation to establish certain motor functions and achieve partial self-care or basic self-care; does that mean that children with cerebral palsy do not need calcium supplementation?  We know that cerebral palsy refers to cerebral palsy, which is a syndrome caused by non-progressive brain injury and developmental defects from conception to infancy, mainly manifesting as central motor disorders and postural abnormalities, and may be combined with mental retardation, epilepsy, visual abnormalities, hearing loss, language impairment, cognitive and behavioral abnormalities. This disease belongs to the category of “five soft” and “five late” in Chinese medicine.  Among the high-risk factors of cerebral palsy are prematurity, twin births, low birth weight, etc. These preterm, twin births and low birth weight children are born with low vitamin D and calcium reserves, and the growth rate of bones is directly proportional to the demand for vitamin D and calcium. Rickets is a chronic nutritional disease caused by abnormal calcium and phosphorus metabolism due to vitamin D deficiency. In severe cases of rickets, muscle laxity, muscle strength, ligament laxity, and even weakness of the head and neck, and backward development of motor functions such as sitting, standing and walking.  Some children have abnormal cerebral cortex function, slow formation of conditioned reflexes, indifferent expression, mental dullness, backward language function, low immune function; for this case, in addition to active rehabilitation treatment such as sports, intellectual training, acupuncture, massage, electrotherapy, but also need to supplement calcium and vitamin AD (cod liver oil), regular sun exposure.