Mental retardation is generally not curable, but requires early education and targeted training to alleviate the symptoms or gradually become normal, specifically to identify the causes of mental retardation, under the guidance of the doctor for treatment.
Mental retardation generally refers to the age of the child’s cognitive ability, language ability, social ability and the same age, compared with the obvious backwardness, may be hereditary, infection, birth injury hypoxia, or trauma and other causes, need to go to the hospital in time to clarify the symptoms, and for the cause of the disease to be targeted treatment.
For example, intracranial infections can be treated with anti-infection therapy at an early stage, and localized trauma can be treated with surgery at an early stage. For hypoxia caused during labor, subcooling can be used as prescribed by the doctor.
However, once the best time is missed, such as the baby has been diagnosed with mental retardation, it is often difficult to reverse, and will not be cured, but only under the guidance of the doctor to carry out rehabilitation training, early intervention, there is a certain possibility that can help the baby to restore some of the functions of the body.