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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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