“It’s all your fault that your uterus is too cold to freeze the baby’s brain!” It’s 2022, and some people still believe this

Author: Sister Sa (attending doctor of obstetrics and gynecology)

Sister Sa has been really busy recently, and feels that her whole body is a bit messy, so she didn’t pay much attention to the artifact dynamics in the Moments, because Moments didn’t have time to watch.

At least I had a little more time today, but as soon as I opened the circle of friends, I was about to laugh so hard, and coincidentally, I also found enthusiastic readers in our communication group. We provided me with the same material and wanted me to write about it:

This blurry little video shows a child with a crooked mouth and eyes. Look at the text below. Do you feel that there are not enough brain cells?

My God, this is incredible! The six-month-old child has a cerebral infarction. It turns out that the mother’s uterus is too cold to freeze, and the seeds are frozen in the head! Sister Sa feels really sorry that I can’t find the original author, otherwise I must help him promote it:

If the 2022 IQ Cancer Grand Prix is ​​held, I will give you a gold award!

What exactly is a “cerebral infarction”?

We all know that the reason why we are able to live well and jump around is because all the organs of the body are working, just like the electrical appliances in our home, which need the supply of electricity, our body Every organ also needs a blood supply.

The blood vessels of our human body are like an endless highway. All the transport vehicles running on this road are blood supply and oxygen supply. If there is a traffic jam suddenly, let this road be blocked. If there is no way to pass normally, then this part of the blood vessel supply will be necrotic due to ischemia and hypoxia, which is what we commonly call “infarction”.

Image source: Zhanku Hailuo

Cerebral infarction, to put it simply, means that the road supplying blood to the brain is blocked, and the brain tissue with blood supply disorder occurs. Because of ischemia and hypoxia, the limited brain tissue is deficient. Blood necrosis or softening, also known as cerebral infarction, also known as ischemic stroke (cerebral ischemic stroke).

Why is it blocked?

There may be more than one reason for this. The road is too narrow, the traffic is too thick, or there is a sudden disturbance, which may cause cerebral infarction.

Clinical common types include cerebral thrombosis, lacunar infarction and cerebral embolism, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, rheumatic heart disease, arrhythmia, dehydration of various reasons, various Arteritis, shock, blood pressure drop too fast and too large, etc., may cause or induce cerebral infarction. Cerebral infarction is a sudden brain disease, although it can occur in any age group, but the most common age is 45-70 years old middle-aged and elderly people. The onset is more acute, with no prodromal symptoms. The main clinical features are sudden collapse, unconsciousness, hemiplegia, speech impairment, and intellectual disability.

You told me about a 60-year-old middle-aged and elderly person who eats fat and drinks beer every day, and has a cerebral infarction. I believe, but you told such a 6-month-old boy Baby, because my mother’s “body cold and palace cold” was frozen out of the brain, I’m sorry, I just want to hahahahahahahahaha! So, how can this low-level rumor make it look taller?

Sister Sa couldn’t help it: You said that people have cerebral palsy, which is better than cerebral infarction, right? !

What exactly is cerebral palsy?

When it comes to “Children with Cerebral Palsy”, I estimate that everyone’s heart will be inexplicably tight. Yes, the birth of a child with Cerebral Palsy will bring a heavy burden to the family. Many people may know that children with cerebral palsy are mentally retarded and often cannot take care of themselves, but they cannot accurately understand what cerebral palsy is.

Pediatric cerebral palsy, the correct name should be pediatric cerebral palsy, commonly known as cerebral palsy. It refers to a syndrome mainly caused by postural and motor dysfunction due to non-progressive brain damage in the immature stage of brain development within one month after birth.

Cerebral palsy is a common central nervous system disorder syndrome in childhood. Its lesions are located in the brain. Because the brain is damaged and cannot maintain normal work, it affects the limbs and is often accompanied by intelligence Defects, epilepsy, abnormal behavior, mental disorders and visual, auditory, language disorders and other symptoms.

However, even if you have cerebral palsy, it’s not because it’s frozen in your mother’s belly!

Possible causes of neonatal cerebral palsy include:

Parents smoke, drink, and drug;

Gestational diabetes mellitus, gestational hypertensive disorders, inappropriate drug use during pregnancy;

Mother suffers from mental illness, high birth rate, premature birth, history of miscarriage, twin or multiple births, etc.;

Intrauterine infection and poor placental function lead to fetal distress;

The umbilical cord wraps around the neck during labor, resulting in birth accidents such as hypoxia, forceps labor, and long breech labor.

Premature or expired infants with low birth weight, postnatal asphyxia aspiration pneumonia, or hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, kernicterus, intracranial hemorrhage, infection, poisoning and malnutrition, etc. Can cause cerebral palsy in the fetus.

Image source: Zhanku Hailuo

Although this short video is very unclear, it seems that the twitching of the child’s mouth is indeed a bit like the symptoms of cerebral palsy. Generally, our common manifestations of cerebral palsy are:

Intellectual disability

Most children with cerebral palsy are accompanied by intellectual disability. A few lucky children may have normal intelligence, while most of them have mild, moderate or even severe mental insufficiency. Among them, severe mental insufficiency Insufficient children account for about 1/4.

Mobility disorders

Because of brain damage, children with cerebral palsy often cannot control their bodies like normal babies.

Children with cerebral palsy are often unable to stand, grasp things with both hands, walk, or even turn over, sit up, and function normally when children with cerebral palsy have severe movement disorders. chewing and swallowing.

Postural disorders

Children with cerebral palsy will experience various postural abnormalities, the most common being the inability to straighten the head at 3 months, accustomed to turning to one side, or rocking back and forth from side to side. When taking a shower, I often hold my hands tightly and it is difficult to break them apart.

Language barriers

Difficulty expressing language, unable to speak, drooling, slurring or stuttering.

Growth disorders

Short stature, stunted growth, along with dental developmental disorders and orofacial dysfunction, abnormal expressions and involuntary twitching of facial and tongue muscles due to sometimes spasmodic or uncoordinated contractions , often accompanied by difficulty in chewing and swallowing, and difficulty in closing the mouth.

Visual and hearing impairments and emotional and behavioral disorders

Difficulty in recognizing sounds, often with strabismus, easy emotional fluctuations, easy to get angry, and even aggressive self-injury behaviors. 39% to 50% of children with cerebral palsy have epilepsy induced by fixed lesions in the brain, especially children with severe mental retardation.

So if you look at this video alone, Sister Sa thinks that this six-month-old baby is more like cerebral palsy rather than a cerebral infarction, but the problem is, even if it is cerebral palsy, others follow What is the so-called mother’s body cold, palace cold, nothing to do with a dime!

* This article is reproduced with the authorization of the WeChat public account Doctor Girl Zhengzhuan.