Can mental retardation be cured? Introducing scientific therapy!

The so-called mental retardation usually refers to the slow mental development of children. Compared with children of the same age, the child's intelligence is significantly lower and his mental development is incomplete. In addition, the child's language ability, motor ability, observation ability and comprehension ability are obviously low. What are the treatments for this situation?

1. Treatment

The causes of mental retardation are complex, and many of them are still unknown, which brings certain difficulties to treatment. The principles of treatment are early detection, early diagnosis, identification of causes, and early intervention.

During infancy and childhood, the methods, content and focus of treatment are to treat the cause as much as possible, conduct early intervention treatment as early as possible, reduce brain function damage, and compensate for the damaged brain function. In older children, education, training, and supervision are important parts of treatment. Children with mild intellectual disability can receive education; children with moderate intellectual disability can generally be trained; children with severe or extremely severe intellectual disability mainly require care, supplemented by medication and diet therapy.

2. Prognosis

The main thing is to eliminate the cause of the disease, carry out genetic counseling, avoid consanguineous marriage, strengthen prenatal care, pay attention to nutrition during pregnancy, avoid contact with harmful chemicals, quit smoking and drinking, absolutely prohibit the intake of drugs, avoid taking potentially teratogenic drugs, avoid exposure to radiation; prevent viral and protozoan infections; do a good job of prenatal examinations, prevent pregnancy complications, improve obstetric techniques, and avoid pathological deliveries. Do a good job in children's health care, implement planned immunization, prevent infectious diseases, especially nervous system infections, pay attention to nutrition and hygiene, prevent poisoning, and avoid brain trauma. Promote parenting knowledge and improve parents' cultural level.

3. Causes

The causes of mental retardation can be roughly divided into two categories.

1. Biomedical reasons

Such as various genetic diseases, acquired diseases, injuries, etc.

2. Social and psychological reasons

Caused by an adverse social and cultural environment. Among the biomedical factors, there are brain damage of various causes, hypoxia, and other perinatal abnormalities.