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Complications of Noonan syndrome
Noonan syndrome can have the associated medical problems:
- After birth, growth in height and weight is usually at a slightly slower rate than normal.
- Feeding difficulties with babies, including poor suckling and weaning. Frequent or forceful vomiting may also occur.
- Common eye problems including short sightedness and a squint. This can normally be corrected with glasses.
- Hearing problems caused by middle ear infections.
- Tendency to bruise easily.
- Undescended testicles in 60% of boys with Noonan Syndrome. This can be treated surgically at an early age.
- Delayed puberty in both boys and girls.
- Swelling of the hands and feet, and the back of the neck during pregnancy, due to excess fluid.
- Poor muscle tone in early development, which may cause clumsiness.
- Skin and hair abnormalities. Short and sparse or thick and curly hair may be found, along with dry patches of skin and skin blemishes.
- Mild developmental delay. Around 10% of children with Noonan Syndrome require special education, but the disorder is not normally associated with severe learning difficulties.









