Risk factors of cerebral palsy:
Low birth weight or premature birth:
The infants born before 37 week's of pregnancy. And the child who weight less than 5.5 bounds at the high risk of cerebral palsy.
Multiple gestation:
Who is having twins, triplets and multiple births are high risk of cerebral palsy.
Infertility treatments:
Which is the infants born from infertility treatments that child may have problems with cerebral palsy.
Fever during pregnancy:
When the mothers having fever during pregnancy or delivery can lead to brain damage in the fetus, results cerebral palsy.
Blood factors between mother and fetus does not match:
Sometimes the infants blood not match to the mother who have certain protein found the Rh red blood cells pasitive and nagative, that may affect the immune system that may attach the blood cells of fetuts. That can lead the brain damage.
Exposure to toxic chemicals:
Sometimes the mother exposure to high level of methyl mercury and any seafood, during pregnancy, that results in high risk factors.
Maternal medical conditions:
*Sometimes having abnormal thyroid function
* And intellectual and developmental disability
* Also more protein in the urine
*Sometimes may affect the seizures.
*Jaundice
Some other risk factors for acquired cerebral palsy:
Infancy:
Infants is greater risk than older children may affect the brain damage.
Preterm and low birth weight.
Children born preterm and low birth weight of high risk factors for acquired cerebral palsy.
Not getting certain vaccination:
Sometimes childhood vaccination may prevent the brain infection can lead cerebral palsy.
Injury:
Not taken any safety precautions for infants of adult supervision can lead cerebral palsy.