It is a condition which can have both mental and physical developmental challenges can be there. The children when compared to peers are slow in learning to speak. They have a flat facial profile and nose, have small head, ears and mouth. They have a short neck with excess fat at the back of the neck. They can be sluggish because of a poor muscle tone.
Down syndrome is due an extra copy of chromosome 21 a condition known as trisomy 21 that results during cell division after conception.
Prevention is better than cure and here there is not cure too!
Exploring the probable causes, we come to the study that as the age of women is increasing by the generation as time progresses; it is found that women who conceive later are more likely to have a progeny with Down Syndrome. If the chance of a Down Syndrome baby is 1 in 1064 if mother’s age is 25; it is 1 in 686 at age of 30 and 1 in 240 by the age of 35 years. Worse still at age of 40 the probability is 1 in 153.
Biologically a woman is better to set to conceive for the first time by the age of 30 years. So the world of today where a woman’s challenges are increasing by the day need to rethink as far as having a baby on time!
