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Neural Tube Defects Spina Bifida
1,692 wordsHow Folate Can Help Prevent Birth Defects If you plan to have children some day, here's important information for the future mother-to-be: Think folate now. Folate is a B vitamin found in a variety of foods and added to many vitamin and mineral supplements as folic acid, a synthetic form of folate. Folate is needed both before and in the first weeks of pregnancy and can help reduce the risk of certain serious and common birth defects called neural tube defects, which affect the brain and spinal ...
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Spina Bifida Spinal Cord
489 wordsSpina Bifida is a Latin term meaning split spine. It is the name given to a group of birth defects, which interfere with the development of the central nervous system: the brain, the spinal cord and the nerve tissues. It results from the failure of the spine to close properly during the first month of pregnancy. In severe cases, the spinal cord protrudes through the back and may be covered by skin or a thin membrane. Surgery to close a newborn's back is generally performed within 24 hours after ...
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Red Blood Cells Vitamin B 12
464 wordsAnemia is a disease of the blood. Anemia is characterized by a deficiency in red blood cells or in the concentration of hemoglobin in the body. These deficiencies are caused by either decreased production or increased destruction of blood cells. Anemia is most common among women in their reproductive years, infants, and the elderly. Because one of the major functions of red blood cells is to transport oxygen, a decrease in red blood cells decreases the amount of oxygen delivered to the body's ti...
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Fruits And Vegetables Beta Carotene
1,982 wordsVitamin supplements: What do most Americans need? Vitamin supplements: What do most Americans need? That is the question I will be attempting to answer in the following few pages. To start, I will talk about their beginning as well as their recent growth in popularity in the past decade. I will discuss the medical views that are for and against the use of supplements, what types are most important, and what types people need. To conclude, I will tell about the supplements that I take and whether...
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Folic Acid Neural Tube
640 wordsFOLIC ACID Folic acid is the most common term for water-soluble B-vitamin that can be found naturally as well as in vitamin pills. Found naturally, folic acid is actually referred to as folate, while folic acid refers to the synthetic form of the vitamin. (For reasons of simplification, this paper will use the two terms interchangeably. ) The functions of folic acid in our diet are mostly for prevention. Probably the most commonly known function of folic acid is in the prevention of neural tube ...
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Folic Acid Quit Smoking
666 wordsHaving a healthy baby starts way before you are ready to get pregnant. Any women in baby producing years, around twenty to thirty, should be taking care of themselves now. Whether they plan on having a child or might in the future. If they are sexually active and in this age range, then there is the possibility of getting pregnant. Even women on birth control should be following precautions. What does that mean? Every women should be taking some kind of multivitamin with folic acid. It not only ...
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Spina Bifida Spinal Cord
772 wordsWhat is Spina Bifida? Spina bifida is a neural tube defect (NTD) which occurs within the first four weeks of pregnancy. The NTD occurs when the vertebrae and / or spinal cord of the fetus fail to develop properly, and results in varying degrees of damage to the spinal cord and nervous system. The damage is permanent. SB is usually accompanied by hydrocephalus. Treatment is urgent to minimize further neurological damage in the opening in the spine. The three most common types of SB are: Myelomeni...
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