What are the manifestations of mental retardation

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Generally speaking, the mentally handicapped in early childhood will have a certain show, and parents want to timely detect whether the child is mentally handicapped, can also start from its symptoms, the following article will introduce some of the performance characteristics of mentally handicapped to you.

What are the manifestations of mental retardation

Performance 1: difficulty in feeding. Appears in the infant period, in this stage, children will show more difficult to milk, in the sucking at the same time, it is particularly easy to appear the condition of vomiting, which indicates that there is damage in the nervous system.

Performance 2: motor retardation. Children with mental retardation are more retarded than normal ones. The starting age of prone head up, sitting, standing and walking was later than that of normal children of the same age. In particular, walking is more obvious. It's often difficult to walk on your own until you are 3-4 years old or 4-5 years old.

Performance 3: abnormal face and posture. Some babies with congenital mental retardation have abnormal facial appearance and posture. Normal children can pay attention to their surroundings in a month, while mentally retarded children are not interested in people and things around them. For example, children with congenital stupidity have wide eye distance, slanting eyes, flat nose, tongue dragging outside the mouth, drooling and other manifestations, which is often referred to as "international face". Children with hydrocephalus have a large head circumference, and children with microcephaly have a small head. Hypothyroidism is particularly short stature, phenylketonuria abnormal white skin, hair color is particularly light and so on.

matters needing attention

After having a certain understanding of the symptoms and manifestations of mental retardation, in order to avoid giving birth to mentally retarded children, we should try our best to avoid consanguineous marriage. This is because both sides are more likely to be carriers of pathogenic genes, so that future generations are prone to mental retardation.