Patient's question:
The child has been taking medication for over seven months due to mental retardation, but during a comprehensive and thorough examination yesterday, it was found that all major organs were abnormal. In order to save the child's life, the medication dosage has been reduced to complete discontinuation. Therefore, I would like to ask how long can a person with mental retardation live?Doctor's answer:
Preventive measures mainly include the following aspects: implementing hereditary metabolic breakdown testing and providing counseling to prevent consanguineous marriage; identifying carriers for hereditary metabolic breakdown and providing counseling to complete good prenatal and postnatal care. For eligible individuals, it is important to provide prenatal and perinatal health care, amniotic fluid testing (including chromosomal diseases, neural tube defects, metabolic diseases, etc.), high-risk pregnancy management, neonatal intensive care, counseling pregnant women to avoid alcohol and smoking, and preventing or discontinuing the use of drugs that have adverse effects on fetal growth and development.