How to treat mental retardation

When it comes to mental retardation, many friends don’t know what kind of disease it is, but when it comes to intellectual disability, I believe everyone knows it. In fact, this is a disease. The so-called mental retardation is incomplete intellectual development. There are many reasons for this situation, such as some genetic diseases or psychological damage, etc. These are the causes of mental retardation. However, when parents find that their children suffer from this disease, they must first think of treating their children. This article will analyze the treatment methods of mental retardation for you.

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.

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.

To sum up, I hope that all parents and friends can understand that how to treat mental retardation is a relatively complicated issue. However, as long as parents do not give up on their children and give their children enough care and protection, it generally will not affect the children’s normal life. Therefore, I hope that all parents can actively treat their children’s illness.