Diseases
Dementia In Children
Dementia is a psychological condition, which occurs due to injury, damage or changes in a child’s brain. The most common cause is a brain injury. Your child may appear healthy and normal, but her brain may not function properly. Children with dementia face difficulty remembering common things, have trouble speaking and sometimes cannot recognize the immediate family as well.
SYMPTOMS
- Memory loss.
- Improper intellectual functioning.
- Inability to exercise emotional control.
- Frequent forgetfulness.
- Behavioral problems, such as delusions, hallucinations, and agitation.
- Confusion about time, place, and people.
- She cries a lot.
- Unreasonable fear, anger, and nervousness.
- Confusion with words and information.
- Repeating same words or story and asking same queries several times.
- Inability to learn new things.
- Negligence in personal safety and hygiene
CAUSES
- Infections
- Heavy metal poisoning, such as lead.
- A brain injury or brain tumor.
- Underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism).
- Encephalitis
- Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (ncl).
- Niemann-pick disease.
- Lafora body disease.
- Batten disease.
- Various other neurological and brain disorders
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