Floppy Infant
Floppy Infant
see Neurology Dx, weakness
Lead:
- floppy infant/not sitting
- apnoea/respiratory and feeding issues
DDx
- C: Sepsis
- D:
- Floppy strong: UMN (above anterior horn cell/CN nuclei) - cerebrum, brainstem, cerebellum
- Floppy weak: LMN (anterior horn cell/CN nuclei down) - AHC/CNN, nerve root, nerve, NMJ, muscle
- G: GIT: malnutrition, Endo: hypoglycaemia, hypothyroidism,
- Sec: Rheum: Marfan's
- Genetic: Prada Willi
- Prematurity <28weeks
UMN
see Neurology Dx, weakness
Lead:
- floppy infant/not sitting
- apnoea/respiratory and feeding issues
DDx
- C: Sepsis
- D:
- Floppy strong: UMN (above anterior horn cell/CN nuclei) - cerebrum, brainstem, cerebellum
- Floppy weak: LMN (anterior horn cell/CN nuclei down) - AHC/CNN, nerve root, nerve, NMJ, muscle
- G: GIT: malnutrition, Endo: hypoglycaemia, hypothyroidism,
- Sec: Rheum: Marfan's
- Genetic: Prada Willi
- Prematurity <28weeks
UMN
- Genetic
- CP (non progressive motor palsy secondary to insult to developing brain)