Autism
Autism is a disease that affects the growth of the nervous system in humans, which leads to problems in engaging in social life properly in the individual, and spread the disease among children by 2% and more than four times more males than females, and the causes of this disease is unknown and there is a risk that there are genes A rare genetic impact on the fetus, leading to infection.
Symptoms of autism
The child with autism has several characteristics that draw attention to the fact that there is a problem in his actions,
- Love separation from others.
- Pay attention to a certain type of games Donna in a strange way.
- The child does not care about the person who calls his name.
- Absorption problems.
- The child with autism at the beginning of his life is a little smiling and may smile without reason.
- They have no intuition like the rest of the children so they do not understand what social relationships are.
- The child may not distinguish his mother.
- Autistic people feel they are from another world and different from those around them so they prefer isolation.
- May repeat certain words in an annoying way or may not be able to pronounce the words correctly.
- The autistic person does not interact emotionally with those around him.
There are many behaviors that can predict an autistic child. Symptoms may begin to appear at 6 months of age, which is often the time when children smile and hang on to their mother, but the doctor can not confirm autism before the child is two and a half years old. There is a slight, moderate and severe autism. The latter type is similar to the mentally retarded in the child’s behavior. A child is rarely found to have autism because it is the most important characteristic of isolation.
Methods of treatment of autism
Many cases of autism have been reported and treated in the following ways:
Autism usually requires no medication except in some cases accompanied by other diseases related to problems in the brain because the disease is based on a defect in the growth of the nervous, and therefore the treatment is through specialized centers of these cases and the degree of autism lighter the faster the recovery has been recorded some Which have been cured of autism, but some cases are intractable and no treatment, but behavioral therapy, both in the home or specialized centers may be able to treat this disease and these are some of the steps that may help in the treatment of the characteristics of autism:
- Not to leave the child alone, especially at the beginning of his life and not be sitting in front of the television.
- Trying to overcome the problem of talking and talking with him and teaching him how to imitate words.
- Communicate with him constantly.
- It may be important to put it in a nursery until it is merged with its peers and becomes socially reactive.
- Some parents may resort to alternative medicine to treat autism by working a diet dedicated to these cases, but this can not be medically approved, because there is no scientific basis for this treatment, but through trials there is someone who says it is a useful treatment.