When should you see a pediatric neurologist
The major part of child’s neurological diseases originate from the period of prenatal development and the first month of child’s life. That is why the first consultation by a neurologist should take place in the first month of child’s life even if the parents do not notice any disturbing symptoms.
Recommended age for a planned check-up of a neuropathologist:
- 1st month
- 3 months
- 1 year
- 3 years
- 6 years old
- 13-14 years
Pediatric neurologist diagnoses and treats not only central and peripheral nervous system diseases, but also functional illnesses. During the initial checkup a doctor will check child’s reflexes, coordination of movements, tone and power of muscles, level of cognitive functions development, etc.
Underperformance at school, child’s apathy or hyperactivity, sleep disruptions are the reasons to consult a neurologist. Pediatric neurologist will also help a child to cope up with his fears, blend into the team in a kindergarten or a school.
- infant neurological pathologies: perinatal encephalopathy, birth injuries and their consequences, hyperexcitability, eating and sleep disorders, muscle tone abnormalities, convulsions, ICP, abnormalities of intracranial pressure control, hydrocephaly, various motor disturbances, motor and psycho-preverbal developmental delays;
- paroxysmal states, including epileptic seizures;
- neuroses and neurosis-like states: obsessive fears, anxiety, urinary incontinence, battarism, panic;
- any sleep disruptions: nightmares, loss of sleep, trouble in falling asleep, noctambulation;
- consequences of past injuries and neuroinfections, such as meningitis, encephalitis, cerebral concussion;
- myasthenia, hereditary myopathy and other neuromuscular diseases;
- behavioral disorders and socialization problems: mood swings, violent outbursts, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD);
- psycho-speech delays;
- problems with school performance (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, etc.);
- congenital brain or spinal chord malformations.
Signs of neurological problems of a baby can be revealed from the first minutes of life. Then the functional reconstruction of the children's nervous system is continuous, that explains the necessity of planned checkups throughout child’s life.
It is important for the parents to pay attention to pace of development of a child themselves:
- twitching of arms and legs,
- sudden weakness in the limbs,
- long-lasting fading sight of a baby,
- apathy, atony, or, on the contrary,
- excessive excitability,
- regular cry
should put on the alert in the first year of life.
At kindergarten and then at school children often are exposed to excessive stress. It results in excessive fatigue, development of chronic fatigue syndrome, neuroses, failure of existent chronic diseases compensation. Within such a period child’s parents should pay attention and react if the child complains of:
- fatigability,
- ailment,
- headache,
- poor sleep,
- if they notice adventitious movements of a child.
Children with too high self-esteem or, on the contrary, with low self-esteem, individualists are at risk, often neurological disorders occur if children are too swift to take offense, amendable and shy.
The following symptoms and states require an urgent visit to a pediatric neurologist:
- headaches (especially during the night or the morning) with nausea, vomiting, hyperthermia (body temperature rise);
- convulsions;
- loss of consciousness;
- movement disorders in the extremities;
- walking and/or equilibration disorders;
- facial asymmetry;
- frequent voluminous posseting of infants;
- head hematomas (after a fall or an injury).
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