Schizophrenia is a range of mental disorders that are characterized by alterations in thinking, emotion, and behavior that interfere with social relationships with family, friends, school, and work. In the majority of cases, the course of schizophrenia developing in the teenage years and into early adulthood, it can produce symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disturbed behaviour.
Although schizophrenia is rare in children, it is possible for the symptoms to manifest themselves before the age of 18, and, in very rare cases, prior to the 13th, which may be driven by the fact that if you have a family to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, and it is more common to occur in boys than in girls.
Some factors, such as ill treatment of children, maternal malnutrition during pregnancy and complications of childbirth may lead to the development of schizophrenia in the child. Treatment should be guided by a child psychiatrist, which may indicate that the use of antipsychotic medications in addition to psychotherapy.
The symptoms are characteristic of childhood
Schizophrenia develops before the age of 18, the child is able to demonstrate some of the symptoms, and the main ones are:
- Social isolation;
- Changes in sleep
- Appetite changes;
- In a low-income school;
- Hallucinations, such as listening to one or several of the voices:
- Disorganized thinking;
- Speech disorganized.
It is important for the doctor to dispose of other diseases, and the use of a prescription drug or a prescription drug. For this reason, it is critical that a pediatrician and a child psychiatrist may be consulted as soon as a child has made any changes in behavior that may be suggestive of schizophrenia. Get to know more and more about the experience.
The causes of schizophrenia, childhood
The cause of schizophrenia in childhood is not yet fully clarified, but there are factors that can increase the likelihood that the disorder to manifest itself, such as genetic alterations, changes in neurotransmitters in families with schizophrenia, ill-treatment or abuse of children, birth complications, drug, or drugs, and, parents with older age.
For this reason, it is important that the pre-natal visits are to be conducted, and to have the guidance of a pediatrician during the entire pregnancy, so it is possible to reduce the risk factors and the chance of your baby developing that disorder.
How is the treatment
Schizophrenia cannot be cured, and most of the time the treatment is carried out with the aim of reducing their symptoms and improve quality of life of the child. Typically, they are prescribed by a child psychiatrist antipsychotics, such as risperidone, aripiprazole, haloperidol, quetiapine, paliperidona, and olanzapine in adolescents from the age of 13 years old.
In addition, the child psychiatrist may recommend a session of therapy, for a better social adaptation of children, and improving the social and quantity of life.
Doctor by UPAEP with a professional certificate no. 12420918, and a degree in Clinical Psychology from UDLAP no 10101998.
