What are the symptoms of poor development in babies?

Many children have been malnourished since birth. If a child is malnourished, then only we parents understand what this means to the child. If a child is malnourished, it will cause many physical diseases in the child, and it will also cause poor brain and physical development. So what are the symptoms when a baby is malnourished? Let's take a look at it together.

1. Abnormal facial appearance. Some children with congenital developmental disorders have abnormal facial and body appearance. For example, children with congenital idiocy often have their tongue hanging outside their mouths and drool.

2. Difficulty in breastfeeding. Symptoms that babies show earlier are often difficulty in feeding, inability to suck, and being particularly prone to spitting up, which indicates damage to the nervous system and will affect their intelligence in the future.

3. Motor development disorders. Children with developmental disabilities have more obvious motor developmental disabilities than normal children. The starting age for movements such as raising the head while lying on the stomach, sitting, standing, and walking is later than that of normal children of the same age. This is especially obvious in walking. It is often not until the age of 3-4 or 4-5 that the child can walk independently, and the walking is unstable.

4. Language development is delayed. Normal babies will imitate sounds at 7-8 months old, call mom and dad at around one year old, can say a dozen words at one and a half years old and understand simple instructions, can ask simple questions at around 2 years old, and can basically express their thoughts at around 3 years old. If these symptoms appear only after a child is four to five months behind or even one to two years behind, they should be regarded as a sign of intellectual disability. Does your child have these symptoms?

Tips: Although children with developmental disorders have no abnormalities in intelligence, they usually have learning difficulties and poor academic performance. If there is discrimination from classmates and teachers, the children will dislike going to school even more, and may even become bored with school and skip classes. If developmental delay is not treated promptly and effectively, it will not only make it difficult for the child to establish a healthy personality with self-esteem and self-confidence, but will also cause social withdrawal and social disorders, which is very detrimental to the child's normal life. Developmental disorders are a common and difficult disease among children. For this disease, it is better for parents to take their children to a regular hospital for treatment. This is the primary guarantee for a more beneficial treatment of the child.

Due to insufficient nutrient intake, the body's digestion and absorption functions are imperfect, and the body's glycogen is mobilized, followed by consumption of fat and protein, leading to a negative nitrogen balance. Plasma protein, blood sugar, and cholesterol all decrease, and the basal metabolism is only 70% or lower of that of normal children. The digestive tract motility and secretory functions of malnourished children are weakened, and the humoral cellular immune function is low.

Long-term improper diet, insufficient calories, artificial feeding based on mainly cereal foods of poor quality and small quantity, insufficient breast milk, improper addition of complementary foods, hasty weaning, and infants' inability to adapt. Digestive system diseases, congenital malformations, cleft lip, cleft palate, pyloric stenosis, cardia relaxation, feeding difficulties, imperfect digestive function, malabsorption, enteritis, dysentery, parasites, hepatitis and other digestive tract infectious diseases. Chronic wasting diseases, recurrent pneumonia, tuberculosis, etc. Malnutrition can also occur due to long-term fever, loss of appetite, reduced intake and excessive consumption. Other situations such as premature birth and twins are congenital conditions of malnutrition. Severe malnutrition is caused by a variety of reasons.

If you know what symptoms your baby will have when he is underdeveloped, you can judge whether the child is underdeveloped by observing his symptoms. If the child is underdeveloped, you should give him dietary supplements in time to improve his physical development and avoid bad phenomena caused by malnutrition.