The Mongolian Child
The Mongolian child, or so-called Downs Syndrome, is a definition given to some newborns, who have specific traits in their outer shape due to impaired brain growth, resulting in weakness in the mind and body, a disease that falls under the list of genetic diseases.
Prenatal checkups
A woman may know if her child has Down syndrome or not in her womb through special tests and tests that reveal the extent of her fetus’s disability. The doctor usually asks the pregnant woman to perform this analysis if she is over 35 years of age. For a Mongolian child to be high. The tests that require the pregnant woman to perform to determine whether her fetus is infected or not divided into two parts:
- Screening tests include ultrasound to measure the amount of fluid collected behind the fetal neck. This increase in fluid is a sign of the presence of the Mongolian state in the fetus, the calibration of favetoprotein and CHG, the unsterile steroid in the mother’s blood, and ultrasound imaging to detect the accompanying defects Of Mongolian.
- Diagnostic tests: It confirms the presence of the disease by 99%, including amniotic fluid removal, and the diagnosis of chorionic villus, and a sample of umbilical cord blood of the fetus, and recently there is a study indicating the possibility of DNA screening fetal in the blood of the mother, but expensive tests compared to others.
Signs appear on newborns
After the birth of the child there are certain qualities appear on the child with “Down syndrome” is evidence that the child is infected, and the most important of these signs:
- Palace in the neck
- Relaxation in the joints.
- The growth of the teeth and inflated due to small mouth cavity.
- Tongue swells, making it close to the tonsils.
- There is only one fold in palm rest.
- Flatten the nasal bridge.
- The presence of a large number of fingerprint aliases in the hand.
- The distance between the big toe and the next.
- Transverse AC in the eye incision with extra skin in the inner corner of the eye called “Mongolian fold”.
- Congenital defects in the formation of the heart.
- Palace of stature.
- An abnormal palace in the chin.
- The front and width of the head.
- White spots in the iris are known as “Brushfield spots.”
- Slow speech and response.
- Mental retardation ranging from one patient to another, classified as Tam, severe, moderate, moderate.
- Delayed fine motor skills.
- Problems with the middle ear may lead to hearing loss.