Patient's question:
My child has always felt a bit slow since they were young, but we didn't pay much attention to it. Later, we noticed that the child's intellectual development was particularly slow, so we took them to the hospital for a thorough examination. To our surprise, the child was diagnosed with intellectual disability. Can intellectual disability be cured?Doctor's answer:
There are approximately 250 known causes of intellectual disability. Brain function deficiencies can lead to intellectual disability as well as language, aggression, and other impairments. The main causes include: congenital infections; harm to the fetus caused by harmful substances; complications during pregnancy or childbirth; malnutrition of the fetus or infant; diseases during early childhood; and generational inheritance factors that cause chromosomal, metabolic, and neurological deficiencies, leading to certain protein and lipid metabolic disorders. This destroys the infant's brain, resulting in intellectual disability and language impairments. For this condition, it is essential to focus on stabilizing brain development.