How long is the life expectancy of a child with severe cerebral palsy? How to treat it?

Cerebral palsy is a relatively common disease. Generally speaking, if a child's cerebral palsy becomes serious, parents will be very worried about whether it will affect the child's life span. So, how long is the life expectancy of a child with severe cerebral palsy?

How long is the life expectancy of a child with severe cerebral palsy?

It is generally believed that if children with cerebral palsy do not have other complications, their life expectancy should be similar to that of normal people. But this is a wrong concept. Some adverse symptoms of cerebral palsy not only affect the normal development of children, but also cause serious economic burden to society and families. Children with cerebral palsy need active treatment, insist on physical exercise, and undergo rehabilitation training to help improve their condition so that the lives of children with cerebral palsy can be continued.

Cerebral palsy is a common disease among clinical diseases, and is more common in congenital rather than acquired. If a newborn baby suffers from cerebral palsy, it will greatly affect its subsequent development and growth, and seriously affect the patient's physical and mental health. Therefore, even if cerebral palsy will not shorten the patient's life normally, parents should not ignore the treatment of cerebral palsy. If the disease worsens, it will still show many critical symptoms.

Treatment of severe cerebral palsy:

1. Drug treatment: Drug treatment is not the main treatment for children with cerebral palsy. It is often used as an auxiliary treatment. Children can use some neurotrophic drugs to promote recovery during infancy. Children must follow the doctor's instructions when taking medication and must not use the medication indiscriminately. Otherwise, it is very likely that the medication will not have any therapeutic effect and will instead cause harm to the child's health.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment: Traditional Chinese Medicine is a commonly used and traditional treatment method for children with cerebral palsy. At present, the main treatments for spastic cerebral palsy are acupuncture and massage. Patients need to actively cooperate with the treatment and do a good job of daily care to ensure timely recovery of the body.

3. Acupoint treatment: Acupoint treatment can be performed by acupuncture on the head points according to the severity of the child's condition, or by using electroacupuncture therapy, meridian leveling therapy, auricular therapy, helium-neon laser acupoint irradiation, or by injecting cerebrolysin, Xingnaojing, acetylglutamine or angelica injection at the Fengchi, Shenshu, Weizhong, Zusanli and other acupoints of the child.