Cerebral palsy is a disorder that occurs in babies and children.
The brain and nervous system get affected and this causes impairment in intellectual development, problems associated with vision causing even blindness in some patients, loss in sense of touch, seizures, and incontinence.
These are some of the major problems, which are most likely to occur in patients suffering from Cerebral palsy.
Many patients of Cerebral palsy also show no signs of proper growth.
Since cerebral palsy occurs at an early age patients do not tend to grow like the average person who is not affected by this disorder.
Many of those who have Cerebral palsy have intellectual impairment, while some are either moderately impaired others can have severe impairment of the brain.
Many children who are suffering from spastic quadriplegia have brain damage.
Children especially suffer from this problem as their brain cells have been damaged.
Many patients are also prone to seizures, which is caused by the sudden bursts of electricity that disrupts the brain's function.
Seizures in Cerebral Palsy patients can occur suddenly, and it is either classified as Tonic-colonic seizures and Partial seizures.
When a patient suffers from Tonic-colonic seizures, the whole brain gets affected, he or she cries aloud, becomes unconscious while convulsions in body, twitching of arms and legs begin to take place and there is loss of bladder control.
In partial seizures, only a part of the brain gets affected which can be either simple or complex.
Those suffering from simple partial seizures will feel numbness and tingling, twitching of the mouth etc.
Complex partial seizures can produce symptoms like hallucinations, impairment in movements and even cause confusion.
You will find these patients walking haphazardly as if they would fall down any moment.
Cerebral palsy can be either moderate or severe in patients.
Many infants have no proper growth and even fail to gain weight resulting in them being abnormally short.
This can be witnessed in children who fail to grow in height and even show slow signs of sexual development when they are in their teens.
Many patients affected by cerebral palsy will have poor or no control over their tongue, mouth and throat muscles.
This leads to drooling.
Children who are affected by Cerebral palsy will find it difficult to move their mouth and throat affecting their swallowing motion, which prevent them from having proper nutrition.
This results in their poor physical growth.
Another common problem affecting those with Cerebral palsy is vision impairment and hearing problems.
Many children develop an eye condition called strabismus where there is non-alignment between the left and right eyes causing double vision.
This can lead to poor vision as the brain begins to ignore the signals from one eye.
They will also exhibit signs of hearing loss and many will be partially deaf.
Incontinence is another common problem faced by all Cerebral palsy patients.
This is caused by the inability of the patients to control the muscles of the bladder.
Bed-wetting is a usual problem here especially children, or during exercises.