Can cerebral palsy be detected during pregnancy?

Pregnancy is the most sacred moment for a woman. Every mother is looking forward to the baby in her belly when she is pregnant. However, due to some other factors, such as environmental pollution, excessive work pressure, and the mentality during pregnancy, the patient may suffer from certain diseases, and cerebral palsy is one of them. Cerebral palsy is one of the most common diseases among children. Many pregnant women undergo examinations during pregnancy, mainly in order to give birth to a healthy baby. So, can examinations during pregnancy detect whether the baby in the belly suffers from cerebral palsy? Let's take a closer look below.

Can cerebral palsy be detected during pregnancy?

In fact, it is not easy to detect cerebral palsy in children through examination during pregnancy. This is mainly because the B-ultrasound examination during pregnancy is actually just an ultrasonic imaging examination, which cannot actually detect whether the fingers inside the fetus's skull are fully developed. Therefore, the detection rate of cerebral palsy in children during routine physical examinations during pregnancy is very low. However, through the B-ultrasound examination in clinical medicine, it is possible to find out whether the fetus's appearance is normal or deformed. Therefore, the B-ultrasound examination can only observe the fetal tissue structure, accurately measure the size of the head and the length of the body, and make a rough judgment on whether the fetus has deformities.

If pregnant parents want to know whether their children suffer from cerebral palsy, they can detect it through physical examinations in clinical medicine and CT and MRI examinations, but cerebral palsy cannot be detected through B-ultrasound examination alone.

In fact, in normal times, if pregnant parents can understand the causes of cerebral palsy and try to avoid these factors as much as possible during the pregnancy preparation period, they can reduce the possibility of having a child with cerebral palsy. In fact, there are many causes of cerebral palsy, such as fetal hypoxia in the mother's womb, threatened miscarriage, prenatal bleeding, pregnancy toxemia and embryonic causes, and some external factors such as developmental malformations, genetic defects, intrauterine infection, etc., which may all cause children with cerebral palsy. Therefore, in normal circumstances, we should try our best to avoid the occurrence of such situations. During pregnancy, we should actively cooperate with prenatal examinations. If you want to know whether your child will have cerebral palsy, it would be better to consult a doctor for relevant examinations.