Cerbal palsy (cerebral palsey, paulsy) symptoms

CP:

The most common result of the early brain damage is a loss of motoric muscle control.

There is a great variation where some children may have only light disturbances to the motoric functions while others may have great difficultites controlling their muscle movements.

The symptoms of cerebral paulsy (or cerbal palsy) may vary during this period since the brain changes all the time.

Many children with CP will also have other disabilities. There may also be a mental retardation (but this is not usually the case), they can be epileptic, have speech difficulties and vision impairments, urinary tract problems and a hearing impairment. Around 60% of all CP diagnosed children will have one or several of these additional impairments.

The symptoms of CP can resemble symptoms of other disorders like spinal cord dysfunction, meningomyelocele, bowel and bladder dysfunction or children with temporary conditions with degradation of motoric functions (head injury, brain tumour etc).

Does Cerbal Palsy affect the intelligence?

No it does not. A common misconception is that a CP patient has a mental disorder but the fact is that it is a motoric disease only, not affecting intelligence or other brain functions.

How dangerous is Cerebral Palsey (paulsy)

It is not a life-threatening disease. The CP is a cause of an early brain damage and this will not in any way grow or spread, it is merely a one-off damage. So patients with cerebral palsey (paulsy) will have a normal life expectancy, cerbal palsy is not contagious and not hereditary.