Pediatric growth retardation is what no parent wants to see, but there are always some reasons for this phenomenon in some children, for some children's stunting symptoms, parents need to understand it. Let's introduce the symptoms of pediatric developmental delay to parents.
1. Backward physical development, for some children with congenital developmental delay, there can be abnormalities in the facial posture, such as congenital stupidity, there will be an overly wide eye distance, oblique hanging of both eyes or a collapsed nose bridge, and the tongue is often dragged outside the mouth, and for some children with hydrocephalus, there may be a particularly large head circumference and a small head in the head of a child with microcephaly. In children with hypothyroidism, particularly short stature may occur. If you have phenylketonuria, you may have symptoms such as abnormally white skin and a particularly light hair color.
2. Motor development is backward, and compared with normal children, there will be obvious delay in motor development. If after a certain month of age, prone, head-up, sitting, standing, walking, etc., these actions will be later than normal children of the same age, especially walking is more obvious, more than 3-4 years old or 4-5 years old will walk on their own, and do not walk unsteadily.
3, language development is backward, normal children in 7-8 months can imitate the sound, more than one year old will call mom and dad, one and a half years old can say more words, to 2 years old or so will ask some simple questions, 3 years old can express their thoughts. If it is found that children are four or five months behind or even l-2 years behind to have the performance mentioned above, they can be seen as a signal of intellectual backwardness.
4, mental development is backward, stunted children often have difficulty in feeding, will not suck the phenomenon, especially easy to spit up milk phenomenon, this situation indicates that the child's nervous system is damaged, and future intelligence will also be affected.
5. Backward psychological development, etc. If the child is low in one of the indicators such as height, weight, and head circumference, it may indicate that some children will develop stunt.