Treatment of Down syndrome in children

Nowadays, examples of children with Down syndrome are common. We may have all heard of Down syndrome in children. It is not a disease but a normal phenomenon. However, it has caused great trouble to many parents. Every parent hopes that their children can grow up strong and healthy. So, is there any good way to treat Down syndrome in children? Below we will introduce in detail the treatment methods for Down syndrome in children.

Treatment:

1. Infants and young children often suffer from repeated respiratory infections, and those with congenital heart disease often die early as a result. Muscle tone gradually improves with age, while the gap between growth and development progress and that of normal children gradually widens. They have stopped growing at the age of 15, have short stature, low IQ, and more than 50% of them are mosaic. In infancy, he behaves as a "good child". In childhood, he is mostly happy and friendly, but his ability to regulate emotions is poor and fluctuates greatly. He is sometimes quite stubborn and naughty. Comprehensive measures should be adopted, including medical and social services, long-term and patient education and training for patients, preparatory education for mentally retarded children so that they can transition to ordinary schools, and training mentally retarded children to master certain work skills. With patient education and training, and under guardianship, they can take care of themselves and even do simple social work and support themselves. Parents and schools should help children overcome behavioral problems, and society should give moral support to parents of children with disabilities.

2. The older the pregnant woman is, the higher the risk rate. The recurrence risk for standard Down syndrome is 1%. Parents of children with translocations should undergo karyotype analysis to detect balanced translocation carriers: if the mother has a D/G translocation, each fetus has a 10% risk; if the father has a D/G translocation, the risk is 4%. The vast majority of G/G translocation cases are sporadic, and the karyotypes of the parents are mostly normal, but 21/21 translocation carriers have also been found, and 100% of their next generation will suffer from the disease.

3. Effective measures to prevent the birth of children with Down syndrome. Couples with a history of the disease should undergo prenatal diagnosis when they have another child, namely chromosome karyotype analysis. Sampling includes mid-pregnancy amniocentesis for analysis of amniotic fluid cells, mid-pregnancy embryonic chorionic villus cells, and mid-pregnancy umbilical cord blood lymphocytes. The measurement of prenatal screening serum markers HCG and AFP has certain clinical significance because it can reduce the blindness of prenatal diagnosis by amniocentesis, indicate the existence of a high-risk pregnant woman group, and enable these pregnant women to undergo further prenatal examinations and consultations, thereby preventing the birth of children with Down syndrome to the greatest extent possible.

The above content introduces us to how to treat Down syndrome in children. I believe that the above content will be helpful to everyone. The above methods are proven and very effective methods. If our children also have the phenomenon of baby feet sweating, we might as well try the methods introduced above to let our children recover their health better and faster!