There are many complications of Down’s syndrome, where Down’s patient has a high incidence of many diseases, among them Alzheimer’s disease, which leads to early dementia among the patients with diabetes and delayed overall growth, and lack of thyroid secretion and diabetes and pressure, as well as many of the deformities in the heart and ultimately To the failure of the heart, in addition to recurrent pneumonia due to a lack of immunity, and increase the incidence of Hrsspring disease, a disease characterized by the absence of nerves in the region of the saddle straight and thus the expansion of the intestine above this region
Other things that Down’s patients suffer from are infertility especially in men. In most people, only a very small percentage of women may retain their fertility, and the incidence of leukemia increases to more than 20 times in children with Down syndrome. Wheat is sensitive to Down’s patients, a disease that leads to bloating, diarrhea and malnutrition in the case of foods containing gluten
As for diagnosis, the diagnosis begins with prenatal examination by echoing the sound, which is the early detection of the disease from the sixteenth to eighteenth of pregnancy, as well as by withdrawing amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus through the abdominal wall for the purpose of examination and study, Diagnosis of the disease by chromosomal examination and the work of chromosomal enumeration, do not forget that we also do certain tests to follow the complications of the disease, especially cardiac complications, where the heart is photographed Baliku to detect the existing cardiac abnormalities.