instruction: hello doctor we are adopting a child through the foster care system and his mother and grandmother were both diagnosed with schizophrenia we wanted to talk to someone about the risk factors what it looks like if he does develop it if there are things we can do to help prevent it
output: hello if one parent has schizophrenia there is about a 10 or 12 percent chance for the child to develop the same 90 percent chance of normal child if at all the child develops then some early prodromal symptoms will be apparent in late teens to 20s 15 to 25 years such as social withdrawal irritability decline in academic performance anxiety or depressive symptoms these are seen before the proper symptoms of schizophrenia also the use of substances like cannabis or alcohol will increase the chances of this if alarming symptoms are noticed early on then usual treatment is to give antipsychotics for one year or two and then stop I have seen many patients who have been detected early and then been off medicines for quite some time now in another one or two decades there should be greater improvement with the medicines available so do not worry too much about it and just parent the child regularly and keep a watch on the things I have mentioned above