It is normal for parents to have high expectations for their child’s development, which is normal and healthy, but there is no absolute certainty, just as there is no way to prevent a child from being born with special physical or mental needs. He says he is developing normally.

Although it is very important to be warned in the first years of life, we should not forget that it is important to have regular check-ups during pregnancy and childbirth. Child neurologists point out that there are some neurological conditions where early detection provides more appropriate treatment and a better prognosis for the child’s future and development.

It is done through Child Neurology, a medical specialty responsible for preventing, diagnosing and treating all pathologies and disorders affecting the central nervous system and peripheral nerves (brain, spinal cord and all peripheral nerves) from pregnancy to adolescence. In most cases (due to timely diagnosis) it prevents or stops the progression of neurological damage.

Which Children Should Be Evaluated by a Neurologist?

  • Premature child because this child is at higher neurological risk.
  • Child present at birth: hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, neonatal seizures, brachial palsy, facial palsy, apneas, or congenital infections.
  • A child with delayed psychomotor development, for example, unable to hold his head at three months of age, unable to sit at six months, unable to walk at 14 months, unable to speak words or understand simple commands after the first year of life.
  • The child who cannot establish a suitable sleep pattern.
  • The child who does not communicate well or establish emotional bonds is extremely irritable.
  • A child who has lost some of the functions he acquired in his development or has stopped in his development.
  • Very soft child who takes abnormal postures.
  • A child who does not show an appropriate growth pattern in terms of weight, height and head circumference.
  • A child with language delay, poor vocabulary, poor pronunciation, and difficulty understanding commands.
  • Child showing poor school performance, school refusal.
  • Child complaining of headache or vertigo.
  • The child with gait disturbance often falls, gets tired very quickly, or has muscle weakness.
  • The clumsy motor boy who drops things doesn’t get hung up on anything.
  • The lost child.
  • Boy with tics.
  • A child with a febrile or non-febrile seizure.
  • Child showing a change in his usual behavior.
  • Child carrier of congenital malformations, genetic syndromes or metabolic diseases.
  • Child with cerebral palsy.

Pediatric Neurology Field of Study

  • Epilepsy
  • Sleeping disorders
  • Headache
  • Attention Deficit Syndrome with or without Hyperactivity
  • neuromuscular diseases
  • Cerebrovascular diseases
  • Psychomotor and language development
  • learn the difficulties
  • neurorehabilitation
  • head injuries
  • Spine and spinal cord diseases

Diagnosis and Treatment Alternatives

Care begins with a neurological diagnosis and continues with the follow-up of therapeutic actions and family orientation aimed at creating the best living conditions and social integration for the patient.

The Pediatric Neurology Service offers all current developments in the diagnosis process of nervous system diseases, which are added to the developments in neurophysiology, neuroimaging (static and functional), genetics, molecular biology and deepening the neurochemical knowledge of the brain, into the service of patient care. It functions with a comprehensive approach to the person and his family.