The Best Ways Of Diagnosing Cerebral Palsy

There are many different symptoms that will be looked at when diagnosing cerebral palsy. These symptoms of the disease will lead the doctors and parents to suspect that something is seriously wrong with your baby. Symptoms usually begin to show in the first few months of a babies life.

Here are some symptoms that may be a result of cerebral palsy:

Irritability, fussiness, abnormal or high-pitched cry, trembling of the arms and legs, low muscle tone, lack of alertness, seizures, eye fluttering, body twitching, staring spells, abnormal reflexes, or poor feeding abilities.

Some other symptoms that may occur during the first six months include and these will be much more visible - your child holding their hands tightly in a fists, your baby will go from being floppy to being very stiff, or one side of the babies body may be able to move easier than the other side.

Don't get freaked out right now if your child is showing some of the symptoms listed above, this doesn't necessarily mean that your child has cerebral palsy. Before you start going crazy you should know this, sometimes there is some sort of damage to the brain that will affect your child's motor abilities, and it will give these symptoms of having cerebral palsy. But it's not, in fact this type of damage can actually repair it's self. There are many other reasons that can be the cause of these symptoms, this is the reason that doctor's like to wait a while before actually diagnosing a baby as having cerebral palsy. Children have the ability to repair themselves, it's pretty amazing. I've actually seen this with my own eyes. Let me tell you this short story. When my brother was 6 years old, he was over at my neighbor's house and touching things he wasn't supposed to be touching. Well to make a long story short, the very tip of his pointer finger got caught between two pieces of heavy lumber, and it was gone. We never did find the piece to have it stitched back on, and the doctor's were planning on tucking his finger into his hand, or taking some skin from his butt and stitching that on. But needless to say they never had to do it, it actually healed itself. And they said it was because he was young and his body has the ability to heal itself.

The best thing that you can do is talk to your pediatrician and discuss your child's behavior. He or she will then begin to test your child for cerebral palsy. And try your hardest to be patient, I know that will be difficult, but just hope for the best. Diagnosing cerebral palsy will not be an over night process, there will be various test to aid in the diagnosis of this disease, such as an MRI and maybe a CI. So try your best to sit tight.

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