What are the causes and symptoms of mental retardation?

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Every parents want their baby to be smart, but there are always some children who are mentally retarded. For these mentally retarded children, some may be irreversible, but some may not. If early detection and early treatment can make parents and children get rid of the pain of life.

What are the causes and symptoms of mental retardation?

It appears in infancy. The earliest symptoms of infants with mental retardation are often difficult to suckle, especially easy to spit, which indicates that the nervous system is damaged and the intelligence will be affected in the future.

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.

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.

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Normal babies will smile at their mothers 4-6 weeks after birth, and mentally retarded children will not smile at 3-4 months. Normal babies can imitate sounds when they are 7-8 months old, call their parents when they are about one year old, speak about ten words when they are one and a half years old, understand simple instructions, ask simple questions when they are about two years old, and basically express their thoughts when they are about three years old. Those who are four or five months or even one or two years behind in their performance, and do not pay attention to the adults talking to them, should be regarded as a sign of mental retardation.