We call it pediatric cerebral palsy, a disease in which the child’s brain is damaged due to some cause of hypoxia and ischemia, resulting in limb paralysis. Poliomyelitis is an acute infectious disease caused by a virus that invades the circulatory system and, in some cases, the nervous system. The main symptoms are fever, general malaise, and in severe cases, painful limbs and paralysis, commonly known as polio. There are many similarities in the symptoms of polio and cerebral palsy, so many parents think that polio is the same as cerebral palsy. What is the difference between polio and cerebral palsy? The first is the prodromal phase, which is characterized by fever, loss of appetite, excessive sweating, irritability, and general sensory sensitivity; nausea, vomiting, headache, sore throat, constipation, diffuse abdominal pain, rhinitis, cough, pharyngeal exudate, and diarrhea. The patient’s lips cannot touch the knees when sitting up or bending the neck, and the head drops, which means that when the patient’s hands are placed under the shoulders and the trunk is lifted, the normal head is parallel to the trunk. In polio patients, the head becomes soft and droops. The third is the paralytic phase. Most of the paralysis occurs when the body temperature begins to drop and gradually worsens, and when the body temperature recedes to normal, the paralysis stops developing and there is no sensory impairment. These are the symptoms that occur during the three periods of polio, which are much more serious than pediatric cerebral palsy. Pediatric cerebral palsy is mainly a sequelae of brain damage, which is mainly manifested in the patient’s limb movements, speech and other functions, and does not have those inherent symptoms of headache, cough, diarrhea, etc. Poliomyelitis is easily confused with cerebral palsy mainly because both can impair limb function and produce paralysis. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to whether the patient has other symptoms, such as diarrhea and vomiting, in addition to limb movement symptoms.