Cerebral Palsy Symptoms

Cerebral Palsy symptoms manifest in two forms, namely, primary and secondary. The primary symptoms include abnormal reflexes and muscle tone and secondary symptoms include epilepsy and seizures.

In order to minimise the problems of cerebral palsy regular medical checkups for your child are important and this should be done by qualified and experienced doctors. A doctor should be in position to confirm that a child has cerebral palsy through the symptoms which the child will show. Other basic symptoms may include a small head and a floppy body.

Primary symptoms are found in the early stages of a child’s development. In a number of cases parents may not know that a child has cerebral palsy. Sometimes, the parents may be in denial because they believe that it cannot happen to their child. One of the first or basic symptom for an infant is abnormal posture. The baby could not sit in a normal position. The head would tilt to one side and the body may be stiff. We noticed this kind of posture in our daughter but we were in denial.

However, after sometime, when she was about 8 months , we decided to take our daughter to the hospital were it was confirmed that she had cerebral palsy. We may have heard about the term cerebral palsy before but it did not mean anything to us until when our daughter was diagnosed with this condition.

After our daughter was confirmed to have cerebral palsy we started to do some research to find our a bit more about the condition. We were happy to note that the condition was not infectious and that the condition if well managed, the child could grow up to full life.

The secondary symptoms include epilepsy , seizures, unable to eat on their own and some behavioural disorders. Sometimes it is difficult to identify secondary symptoms. Other symptoms include speech impairment, hearing problems

Both types of symptoms have abnormal reflexes, poor coordination and impairment of motor development.

The cerebral palsy symptoms are two fold, primary and secondary. The primary symptoms are characterised by abnormal reflexes, muscle tone, poor coordination and slow motor development. The secondary symptoms are epilepsy, seizures, eating abnormalities, mental retardation, behavioural disorders and sensory impairment.

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