An infection in the pregnant mother or the newborn child increases the risk of the child developing cerebral palsy, cp, according to a new thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy.
It does not apply to all infections.
– No, and we looked at specifically, urinary tract infection, kidney infection in the mother, and then when the baby gets an infection very early in life, says doctoral student Kristina Ahlin, author of the thesis.
Earlier it was believed that different types of complications during childbirth leading to oxygen deficiency in the child were the main cause of cerebral palsy, but studies have shown that it can only explain a small part of the cases.
but even if the risk of cp increases with infections so the overall low.
– There are an incredible number of reasons for cp, so infections explain only a tiny part. And most people who get infections’re not supposed children with CP.
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