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Magnesium Sulfate During Premature Labor May Decrease Risk of Cerebral Palsy
Over ten percent of pregnant women deliver their babies before they have reached a full term, forty-week pregnancy. Premature infants, who are delivered before 37 weeks, are at a higher risk for birth injuries, such as cerebral palsy, which is caused from damage to the brain. About one-third of children with cerebral palsy were premature babies. Cerebral palsy is a devastating movement disorder. It is characterized by limitations in intelligence, difficulties with hearing, impaired vision, impaired speaking, seizures, behavioral problems and learning disorders. In cases of cerebral palsy, damage occurs to the cerebrum, which is the area of the brain that is in control of motor skills, sensory functions and cognition. Injury can occur either during birth, or after. Damage to the cerebrum is often a result of lack of oxygen, commonly due to problems with the umbilical cord, uterine rupture or eclampsia. The prescription of magnesium sulfate, or Epsom salt, has…
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Cerebral Palsy
Imagine being asleep on a Saturday, and you awake to your 125 lb teenager’s, with severe cerebral palsy, call of, “Mom or Dad, I have to go to the bathroom.” Because, due to cerebral palsy your child needs your assistance to go to the restroom. Your child has a wheel chair, your house has a wheel chair ramp, and your van has a wheel chair lift. Further, all of the ceiling fans and lights in your home may have hang down pulls so that your child can turn things off and on without your help. When your child goes to school, your child may require a tutor or aid to help transcribe for your child. Maybe you are thinking that you can handle your child now, because your child is still very young. However, what happens when your child turns 18 years old, and you turn 50, 60, and etc.? How…
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Boy with Cerebral Palsy Verbally Abused by Teachers
Two Alabama teachers have been placed on administrative leave after a hidden tape recorder caught them verbally abusing a student with cerebral palsy. Melisha Salinas could tell her 10-year-old son, Jose, was unhappy at school. When another student told her that Jose’s teacher had been “mean” to Jose, she decided to plant a tape recorder in her son’s wheelchair. What she allegedly caught on tape proved disturbing. “You drooled on the paper,” a male’s voice on the recorder says – allegedly that of teacher’s aide Drew Faircloth. “That’s disgusting.” The next voice – allegedly that of full-time special education teacher Alicia Brown – says, “Why is my paper wet? Look at me and answer. That’s not an answer. That’s not even a word.” Jose’s mother took the recordings, taken over three days, to the school district. The district put both employees on leave, but allowed them back soon afterward. That…
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