Are young children susceptible to hemiplegia? Parents should be careful if such symptoms occur

When many people hear the term hemiplegia, their first reaction is to think of the elderly in the family, and few people would consider children. In fact, many infants and young children may also have hemiplegia, and may even be accompanied by more congenital complications. In fact, children are also prone to hemiplegia, and children's hemiplegia usually has some obvious symptoms.

The first thing is to pay attention to the baby's facial changes:

When a baby with hemiplegia closes his eyes, the eye on the paralyzed side can close, but it cannot be closed tightly. The eyelashes are not visible when the eyes are just closed, but after a while, most of the eyelashes are exposed. When the baby tries to close his mouth, it can be found that the force is weak on the hemiplegic side. When in the natural position, the corner of the mouth tilts downward and outward, and when the mouth is open, it is an oblique oval shape.

Secondly, pay attention to the changes in muscle tension of the baby's upper and lower limbs:

Babies with flaccid hemiplegia may show voluntary movement disorders in the upper and lower limbs on one side accompanied by obvious hypotonia. The baby's paretic limbs are weak, so the paretic hand is rarely used. Babies with spastic hemiplegia have obvious increased muscle tone, with the flexor tone of the paralyzed upper limb increased mainly, and the extensor tone of the lower limb increased mainly. They can show a unique posture - shoulders raised, flexed upper limb on the paralyzed side, forearm adducted, and elbows, wrists, and fingers in flexed state.

There is a feeling of stiffness and resistance when the hand is passively extended, the lower limb on the paralyzed side is hyperextended, the hip joint is adducted, the knee joint is extended, the ankle joint is adducted, the toes are plantar flexed to form claw toes or equinovarus, the person walks in a circular gait, and the walking is unstable.

If the baby shows the above abnormalities, parents need to be vigilant and take the child to the hospital's neurosurgery department in time and ask a professional doctor to diagnose. Doctors can generally make a diagnosis based on medical history, clinical examination and imaging examinations. Once the diagnosis is confirmed, treatment should be given as soon as possible.