What causes mental retardation?

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Mental retardation is what we call mental retardation. There are many specific reasons for patients with such diseases, but the main reason is that the brain is damaged. The common is that the brain has been organic damage, and also because the brain itself is not perfect. For newborn children, if they are infected by virus or bacteria, it will also cause certain damage to the development of intelligence. Therefore, we should pay special attention to it at ordinary times. Let's take a look at the following.

What causes mental retardation?

First: for patients, mental retardation is partly due to genetic factors. If there are chromosomal abnormalities, or congenital genetic mutations, it is easy to lead to mental retardation. There are prenatal injuries.

Second: for newborns, because the initial resistance is relatively weak, so at this time it is easy to be infected by bacteria or viruses, if it affects the child's brain, it will lead to brain development disorders, leading to mental retardation.

Third: if there is intrauterine infection or hypoxia in the process of production, it will lead to mental retardation to a great extent. In addition, smoking during pregnancy or severe malnutrition can also lead to mental retardation.

matters needing attention

At this time, the main symptom of patients is that their perception of the outside world becomes poor. At the same time, their ability of learning and memory is poor, and their self-control and language ability are weak.