Down’s syndrome
Down Syndrome is a genetic disease caused by an error in chromosomal division or an extra chromosome in the body. These chromosomes are forty-six chromosomes, half of which are from the mother and the other half from the father. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that produces a genetic mutation Are unusual in the chromosomes or genes, thus producing a physically or mentally ill person or both, and this disability varies from one case to another.
Down’s syndrome is named after the English scientist John Langdon Down. The syndrome has several other names: Mongolian phobia, Down syndrome, Hypothyroidism 21, and Hypothyroidism.
Symptoms of Down Syndrome
- Small in size with head flattened from the back.
- The emergence of the front.
- The deviation of the eyes up with small nose and flat.
- General weakness in the muscles of the body.
- Palace of short stature and short hands and width.
- Shortness of stature and obesity in most cases.
- Hand palms typically contain one or two lines.
- People with Down’s syndrome are characterized by lightness, subtle feeling and passion.
Health effects associated with Down Syndrome
- Congenital defects in the heart, intestines and stomach, in addition to congenital defects in the hearing and at the top of the spine.
- Weight gain due to lack of movement caused by the basic weakness and relaxation of muscles, which causes children to delay walking, in addition to the diet intake.
- The presence of congenital defects since birth in the twelve, can be treated surgically.
- There are problems with speech and its main cause is hearing problems, which affects the pronunciation by 70 percent. The other reason is that there is a problem in the work of the cartilage that connects the middle ear and pharynx, called the nose or stitch, or a distortion in the middle ear.
- Alzheimer’s disease is a disease in which the patient loses the ability to remember events in the recent past. The cause is the deposition of the proteins called amyloid on the pathways of nerves, and this disease affects people between the age of thirty and forty years.
- There is elasticity between the vertebrae of the first and second vertebrae connected to the neck because of the loosening of the ligament that connects the two vertebrae, which causes the head to bend forward. This is very dangerous for the sufferers, and up to 14% of the patients do not show signs of relaxation.
- Hypothyroidism.