Children take their own pace of time to develop. Minor, temporary delays are usually no cause for alarm, but an ongoing delay or multiple delays in reaching milestones can lead to issues later in life. Delay like reaching language, thinking, and motor skills milestones is called developmental delay.
Developmental delay may be caused by a variety of factors, including hereditary problems with pregnancy, and premature birth. The cause is not always known.
Delay of movement are divided into two parts:
Exhibiting some of the following symptoms can mean that your child has delays in developing some fine or gross motor functions:
By 6 months old, most infants can recognize the sounds of basic language. At 12 to 15 months old, infants should be able to say a few simple words, even if they aren’t clear. Most toddlers can understand a few words by the time they are 18 months old. When they reach the age of 13, most children can speak in brief sentence.
A language disorder occurs when children have difficulty understanding what other people say, and cannot express their own thoughts. Language includes speaking, gesturing, signing and writing.
CAUSES
About 15 percent of children between the ages of 3 and 17 have one or more developmental disability. Most developmental disabilities occur before a child is born but some can occur after birth due to infection, injury, or other factors.
Causes of developmental delay can be difficult to pinpoint and a variety of things can contribute to it. Some conditions are genetic in origin, such as Down syndrome. Infection or other problems during pregnancy and childbirth, as well as premature birth, can also cause developmental delay.
Developmental delay can also be a symptom of other underlying medical conditions, including:
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
Homoeopathy today is a rapidly growing system and is being practiced all over the world. It strength lies in its evident effectiveness as it takes a holistic approach towards the sick individual through promotion of inner balance at mental, emotional, spiritual and physical levels. When developmental delay is concerned there are many effective medicines available in Homoeopathy, but the selection depends upon the individuality of the patient, considering mental and physical symptoms.
CALCAREA CARONICA 200—Calcarea carb is one of the top remedies for developmental delay, especially suited to children with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily, fat, and catches cold very easily. They have large head and abdomen, fontanelles and sutures open, bones soft, develop very slowly. Difficult and delayed dentition. Profuse sweating during sleep, especially head and chest.
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA 200—Calcarea phos is another best remedy for both mental physical developments. It is suited to emaciated children, difficult to stand and slow in learning to walk. Children have sunken, flabby abdomen. Cranial bones are thin and brittle; fontanelles and sutures open too long or close and reopen. Delayed and complicated teething. Children suffering from diarrhea and flatulent complaints. At every attempt to eat, coliky pain in abdomen. They often suffer from fractures and growing pains due to poor nutrition. Also they often suffer from enlarged glands.
CARCINOSIN 200—Carcinosin arrested the child’s development. Dwarfishness. Malformations, mongolism. Disturbed sleep in children. Child wants to be carried. Children sleep on their knees and elbows. They suffer from recurrent attacks of severe infection.
BARYTA CARBONICA 200—Baryta carbonica is best for scrofulous, dwarfish children, who do not grow. They are both mentally and physically weak. Nutritional disturbances are seen in Baryta carb. Children, shy of strangers. They hides behind the furniture and keeps the hands over face and peeping through the fingers. They are liable to take cold easily, sore throat from cold, glandular disorders. There is a tendency for enlargement of glands with indurations, especially tonsils. They always have a swollen tonsil. Children with large abdomen is another characteristic symptom. Profuse offensive sweat, especially on feet may be found along with other symptoms.
AETHUSA CYNAPIUM 200—Aethusa cynapium is another effective remedy for development delay, where the child cannot stand, sit up or hold the head up. Children who lack the power to hold their heads up with no particular ailment. Want of power to stand up. Inability to digest milk is a leading symptom of Aethusa cyapium. Diarrhea fro drinking milk. Cannot tolerate milk in any form, it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken, causes weakness and drowsiness. Anguish, crying and show expression of discomfort and discontent.
NATRUM MURIATICUM 200—Nartrum mur children are poorly nourished on account of digestive disturbances. They talk late, cross, irritable, cry from slightest cause. Emaciation while living well. Emaciation, descending of neck or abdomen. Emaciation most notable in neck.
SILICEA 200—Silicea is another effective remedy for developmental delay, where the children are scrofulous, rachitic with large heads. Defective nutrition, due to imperfect assimilation. Open fontanelles are sutures are seen. Weak ankles, slow in learning to walk.Wasted in body, especially legs. Distended , hot abdomen. Profuse sweating on head, but lower than Calcarea carb. Offensive sweat on feet and axillae.
TUBERCULINUM 200—Tuberculinum is also an effective remedy for development delay , where the child is emaciated rapidly, and losing flesh while eating well. In Tuberculinum there is a strong tendency to catch cold easily without knowing how and where; seems to take cold every time he takes breath of fresh air. They are mentally and physically weak. Excessive sweat at night isa leading symptom of Tuberculinum. Children have recurrent attacks of upper respiratory tract infections and also have night fever.
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