Down Syndrome

Down Syndrome

Down syndrome is not difficult to diagnose, doctors realize physical

characteristics of those with Down syndrome in the delivery room.

Although these characteristics have no functional or behavioral significance,

questions are normally asked about Down syndrome. Parents do not normally

see a resemblance between their child an a child with Down syndrome. Mere

appearance does not affect the child’s behavior at all. Though physical

symptoms are visual markers of other conditions that may impact the child’s

development. All different ages of people with Down syndrome share

appearance, and physical condition they also share some of the same kinds of

routine’s and treatments if needed.

Some examples of physical characteristics are the eyes which are

smaller and more slanted, they also tend to be closer together. The fingers are

shorter than a persons without Down syndrome they tend to bite and chew on

there fingers quite often, which could be hazardous and harmful. Many

physical characteristics are involved with Down syndrome, like the nose,

ears, skull, tongue, neck, and many more of these common characteristics are

affected by Down syndrome.

Many defects can come when you are diagnose with Down syndrome,

heart disease is one that can be involved, and can be critical with this disease.

A child with Down syndrome seam’s to lack the certain amount of white

blood cells that a person needs when they are born. The white blood cells

play a vital part in your immune system. Which is why you normally do not

get measles or chicken pox more than once. When someone is lacking such

cells they are more at risk. The life span of a person with Down’s varies and

depends on what defects are involved with that person individually. There is a

certain type of lymphocyte that they call a natural killer because it go’s

through and kills the malignant in the body.

Growth sizes are different from those without Down syndrome, which