Patient's question:
The child is already five years old and seems somewhat abnormal, not like a normal child. They always sleep and are slow to react. Is it possible that they have low intelligence? Now, they want to know, how is the treatment for a disease with low intelligence?Doctor's answer:
Based on your description, it can be considered a condition of intellectual disability. Currently, this condition cannot be fully recovered from. For the patient, there needs to be special teaching and scientific rehabilitation training methods to effectively improve their intelligence. Early initiation of thyroid hormone replacement or special dietary therapy for phenylketonuria can help stabilize their intellectual level. For MR caused by social, psychological, and cultural factors, changing environmental conditions to allow them to live in a friendly and harmonious family, and enhancing upbringing, can lead to further improvement in their intelligence. In addition to timely treatment for intellectual disability, patient friends should always maintain a positive attitude to face the disease. Only in this way can their immunity and belief in fighting the disease be improved. At the same time, they should pay more attention to their dietary care and closely monitor changes in their symptoms, believing that this will definitely drive away intellectual disability.