It often happens that a future woman in labor throughout the entire period experiences that a 100% healthy baby is born. However, even if the period of gestation itself passes without any serious complications, then problems can expect crumbs after entering adulthood. Specialists have identified a whole group of diseases, which in science is called PCNS in newborns (perinatal lesions of the nervous system). What is this disease?
general information
Often this kind of disease is also called otherwise - a violation of cerebral circulation, or cerebral dysfunction. Experts warn that the diagnosis of a particular disease is often a serious difficulty, since the nerve cells of the crumbs in the brain, even at the time of birth, are not yet fully formed. Parents, in turn, having heard this diagnosis, literally panic.
PPCNS in newborns. Causes
Doctors distinguish the following from the main causes influencing the appearance of this diagnosis: hypoxia, various intrauterine infections, asphyxia, hemolytic disease. It is noteworthy that the most common obstetric devices can often lead to damage to the spinal cord.
Classification
When classifying PCNS in newborns, doctors usually proceed from the following
criteria:
- dominants of the so-called etiological factor;
- severity factor;
- the time frame of the disease;
- malware exposure time;
- clinical syndromes.
PPCNS in newborns: symptoms
If you, while still in the hospital, noticed that the baby is constantly spinning, cannot lie in one place for more than one minute, maybe he has this particular diagnosis. Symptoms may vary. In fact, in no case should you panic ahead of time. The thing is that in the presence of this disease, doctors can diagnose it without your help. Thus, at discharge you will already know whether the baby is healthy or if he needs special therapy.
PPCNS in newborns. Treatment
As noted above, parents should in no case panic, but rather try to remove all the negative factors from the life of a small creature. In addition, the doctor’s recommendations should be followed to the fullest extent possible, because only in this way can the PPNS in newborns be cured. Therapy, as a rule, implies first of all getting rid of concomitant cerebral edema. Only after this can we proceed to preventive measures that are focused on getting rid of seizures. Also, modern medicine offers various methods for reducing the permeability of all vessel walls and the subsequent improvement of the direct contractile function of the myocardium. At the end of therapy, special medications are most often prescribed aimed at normalizing metabolism in nerve tissues. Then it is important for the baby to provide a gentle regimen in which his
physical activity will be practically minimal.