General anesthesia is a type of anesthesia that is often needed for surgery. This type of anesthesia allows the patient to be completely unconscious and unconscious for a certain period of time, and to undergo the surgical treatment without pain. For young children, surgery requires anesthesia more often. So, does general anesthesia affect a child’s brain? Will it make the child stupid? This is the most common concern of many parents of children who need to undergo surgery. To answer this question, we must first clarify what is general anesthesia. General anesthesia is the abbreviation of general anesthesia, refers to the anesthetic inhalation through the respiratory tract, or through the vein, intramuscular injection into the body, so that the patient’s pain disappears, muscle relaxation, reflex activity is weakened, etc., this state of inhibition is controllable, but also reversible, in the process of surgery, anesthesiologists should be based on the patient’s condition and the monitoring of the various vital signs, to adjust the dosage of anesthesia drugs, the end of the operation, anesthesia drugs will be gradually metabolized and disappear, and the child will slowly wake up. At the end of the surgery, the anesthetic drugs will be gradually metabolized and disappear, and the child will slowly wake up. Within a week after the surgery, the patient may suffer from different degrees of insomnia and short-term memory impairment. So some parents attribute these changes in their children after surgery to the intellectual decline caused by anesthesia. In fact, a child’s surgery is a traumatic experience and recovery takes some time, which does not mean that the child’s intellectual development has been affected. Thousands of children in our country undergo general anesthesia every year because they need surgical treatment. Some also experience multiple times, but there is no information to show that general anesthesia will have an adverse effect on the child’s intelligence. Moreover, intelligence is not measured as accurately as height and weight. Even the most complete intelligence tests have limitations. Therefore, parents should not attribute the general anesthesia used during the surgery to their child’s unsatisfactory performance on a particular intelligence test or examination. There is one problem that must be pointed out here, and that is that after surgical anesthesia, there are still a very small number of patients who may have unforeseen “delayed awakening”, “do not wake up”, or even cardiac or respiratory arrest risk. These are anesthetic accidents and their incidence is very low. This may be due to individual differences, the severity and rapid change of the original disease, the limitations of the surgical equipment and methods, and the sensitivity of the child to anesthetic drugs, i.e., “idiosyncrasy,” which is difficult to prevent completely. Surgery and anesthesia can cause a series of pathophysiological changes in the body, especially if the anesthetized child has a disease, the disease process can be exacerbated during this period, which ultimately leads to cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, resulting in irreversible damage. Therefore, the safety of anesthesia and surgery for your child can only be guaranteed by regular hospitals that have good medical and technical conditions. In order to the surgery patient can be comfortable and safe through the surgery, should put aside the anesthesia will make people silly concerns, boldly choose general anesthesia.