Can mental retardation be cured

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Genetic or prenatal damage can lead to the occurrence of mental retardation, the most serious can cause dementia, treatment is the most concern. Now let's see if mental retardation can be cured.

Can mental retardation be cured

First of all: those who have identified the causes, such as chronic diseases, poisoning, long-term malnutrition, hearing and visual impairment, should try their best to remove the causes, so that their intelligence can be partially or completely recovered.

Secondly: children with hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria and other endocrine metabolic abnormalities should be diagnosed early, and early use of thyroid hormone replacement or phenylketonuria special diet therapy to improve their intelligence level. Mr caused by social, psychological and cultural reasons, changing the environmental conditions, making them live in a friendly and harmonious family, strengthening education, can make their intelligence progress.

Finally: with the application of medical, social, educational and vocational training measures, according to the age and severity of Mr patients for training, so that they can improve the level of intelligence as much as possible.

matters needing attention

The time to start treatment should be early, try to diagnose within 3 years old, and carry out systematic treatment; to insist on treatment for children, it is best to continue until the children enter school, and to strengthen the intensity of training, the greater the intensity, the better the effect.