Is it cerebral palsy if a five-month-old baby likes to lower his head?

For a five-month-old baby, if he often likes to lower his head, parents should be alert at this time, because it may be caused by cerebral palsy. At this time, the baby's head cannot be controlled by himself, and he often shows symptoms of lowering his head or postural depression. At this time, you should go to the hospital for examination in time, and also observe other manifestations of the child. Check and treat promptly.

Symptoms of cerebral palsy in five-month-old baby

Sign 1 of cerebral palsy: the presence of high-risk factors for cerebral palsy. When these high-risk factors appear, parents need to be vigilant and pay close attention to the subsequent development of the child: there have been children with cerebral palsy in the family, the child is premature (obstetrics) or has a low birth weight, the mother encountered a difficult delivery during childbirth (orthopedics and obstetrics), the baby had severe hypoxia and asphyxia, severe jaundice (gastroenterology) or cerebral hemorrhage (neurosurgery and neurology) in the neonatal period, etc.

Sign 2 of cerebral palsy: difficulty in sucking, being too quiet or irritable. Babies with cerebral palsy are not like normal babies in the neonatal period. They will not look for food everywhere when they are hungry, and will actively lean over to suck when they see their mother's nipple or pacifier. When they are fed, they seem to have no strength to suck, and they can easily choke and spit up milk. Moreover, the mouths of children with cerebral palsy are always open, and saliva can be seen flowing out. In addition, babies with cerebral palsy will often cry and be difficult to comfort; some babies are particularly quiet and indifferent to the surrounding sounds, lights and other stimuli. Sign three of cerebral palsy: Motor development lags behind children of the same age. Children of different months of age will have different levels of motor development, from initially holding the head upright for a moment to holding the neck steadily upright, and then to turning over, sitting, crawling, standing, and walking. Although babies with cerebral palsy can also show some different changes in motor development, they are obviously lagging behind in motor development compared with children of the same age.

Sign 4 of cerebral palsy: abnormal posture. Due to abnormal muscle tone (orthopedic emergency department) and delayed disappearance of primitive reflexes in children with cerebral palsy, they will display some strange postures: for example, their hands, especially the thumbs, have been clenched since birth, and their fingers still cannot be opened after 3 months. Their legs are also very tight, and they cannot be opened no matter how hard they try to change their diapers. When they lie on their backs, their heads will tilt back, their buttocks will be higher than their heads, their lower limbs will be straight, and they may even be in opisthotonos. Some children with cerebral palsy have low muscle tone in their limbs, and they look like a frog when they lie on their backs. In addition, when children with cerebral palsy are learning to walk, their legs are often in a typical scissors shape, with the toes touching the ground, the knees close together, and the feet crossed facing each other.

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