When should you see a pediatric neurologist

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.