Table of Contents
- 1 What kinds of difficulties might a person with Down syndrome have?
- 2 What are three common health problems that people with Down syndrome face?
- 3 What are some of the difficulties that people taking care of children with Down’s syndrome typically face?
- 4 What happens if Down syndrome is left untreated?
- 5 What happens in the body to cause Down syndrome?
- 6 What are the social effects of Down syndrome?
- 7 Is Down syndrome painful?
- 8 Do Down syndrome feel pain?
- 9 What are the warning signs of Down syndrome?
- 10 What are the impacts of having Down syndrome?
What kinds of difficulties might a person with Down syndrome have?
Down Syndrome Learning Difficulties Hearing and vision weakness. Fine motor skill impairment due to low muscle tone. Weak auditory memory. Short attention span and distractibility.
What are three common health problems that people with Down syndrome face?
Some of the conditions that occur more often among children with Down syndrome include:
- Heart defects.
- Vision problems.
- Hearing loss.
- Infections.
- Hypothyroidism.
- Blood disorders.
- Hypotonia (poor muscle tone).
- Problems with the upper part of the spine.
How does a person with Down syndrome act?
Down syndrome also affects a person’s ability to think, reason, understand, and be social. The effects range from mild to moderate. Children with Down syndrome often take longer to reach important goals like crawling, walking, and talking.
What are some of the difficulties that people taking care of children with Down’s syndrome typically face?
Medical problems that happen more often with Down syndrome include:
- thyroid problems.
- stomach and intestinal problems, including celiac disease.
- seizures.
- breathing problems, including sleep apnea and asthma.
- obesity.
- infections, including ear infections and pneumonia.
- childhood leukemia.
What happens if Down syndrome is left untreated?
Down syndrome and thyroid conditions If left untreated, it can affect physical and mental wellbeing. The most common condition for people with Down syndrome is an under-active thyroid, which is known as hypothyroidism. The symptoms of this condition include: Lethargy.
What part of the body does Down syndrome affect?
Down syndrome is a chromosomal condition that is associated with intellectual disability, a characteristic facial appearance, and weak muscle tone (hypotonia) in infancy. All affected individuals experience cognitive delays, but the intellectual disability is usually mild to moderate.
What happens in the body to cause Down syndrome?
Down syndrome results when abnormal cell division involving chromosome 21 occurs. These cell division abnormalities result in an extra partial or full chromosome 21. This extra genetic material is responsible for the characteristic features and developmental problems of Down syndrome.
Social development Most children and adults with Down syndrome continue to develop good social skills and appropriate social behaviour, though a significant minority may develop difficult behaviours, particularly those with the greatest delays in speech and language development.
How are families affected by Down syndrome?
Like any child, those children with Down syndrome in cohesive and harmonious families were also less likely to have behavior problems and more likely to have higher levels of functioning. Mothers expressing poor relationships with the child and family were more likely to have high stress scores.
Is Down syndrome painful?
Clinical studies of chronic pain have shown that people with an intellectual disability experience chronic pain and within that population, people with Down syndrome also experience chronic pain, but the precise prevalence of chronic pain in Down syndrome has yet to be established.
Do Down syndrome feel pain?
Individuals with Down syndrome have reduced and delayed pain responses. They are not insensitive to pain, but their expression is delayed and less precise. It is hard to tell if there is a decreased ability to sense the pain, localize the pain, or if the reaction to the pain is delayed.
What are the physical signs of someone with Down syndrome?
On an ultrasound (an image of a developing fetus, also called a sonogram), visible signs a baby may have Down syndrome include: Excess skin in the back of the neck (nuchal translucency) A shorter-than-normal femur (thigh) bone A missing nose bone
What are the warning signs of Down syndrome?
Common physical signs of Down syndrome include: Decreased or poor muscle tone. Short neck, with excess skin at the back of the neck. Flattened facial profile and nose. Small head, ears, and mouth. Upward slanting eyes, often with a skin fold that comes out from the upper eyelid and covers the inner corner of the eye.
What are the impacts of having Down syndrome?
These complications can include: Heart defects. About half the children with Down syndrome are born with some type of congenital heart defect. Gastrointestinal (GI) defects. Immune disorders. Sleep apnea. Obesity. Spinal problems. Leukemia. Dementia. Other problems.
What are the indicators of Down syndrome?
The physical and cognitive impacts of Down syndrome range from mild to severe. Some common physical signs of the disorder include a small head, flattened face, short neck, up-slanted eyes, low-set ears, enlarged tongue and lips, and sloping underchin.