Your little child screams and cries too much? Perhaps you should show his doctor. As scientists have found, constantly crying children are more often than usual of physical and psychological development, for example, a decrease in intelligence or a violation of emotional responses.

Conducted at the National Institute of Health Bethesda (USA, Maryland), studies have shown that in children who constantly cry and cry at the age of more than 12 weeks, five years later, twice as often as usual, deviations from normal development.

This applies to both intellectual abilities (under supervision, children were asked to undergo a series of tests showing their IQ) and certain physical indicators - for example, scientists detected in these children a violation of fine motor skills and coordination of movements. Now scientists can not explain the causes of the phenomenon they discovered.

According to one of the hypotheses, the cause of the observed developmental disorders in children is the constant stress caused by the same factor that makes them constantly scream (and this can be, for example, the so-called infantile colic - spontaneous contractions of the muscles of internal organs, accompanied by sharp pains). Nevertheless, it remains unclear why its consequences are manifested even after several years. "We do not at all want to say that if your child screams too often, he will inevitably lag behind his peers in development," commented Dr. Mala Rao, the head of this study. - Perhaps everything will "cost". But it's better not to ignore his constant cries and once again show it to the doctor.

Medicus. En.