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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Blood Alcohol Level
1,595 wordsWhat can happen to a fetus when a pregnant women drinks heavily during her pregnancy? It can lead to permanent, irreversible and incurable effects that will bring a lifetime of pain for both the child and the family. These permanent and unchangeable effects arise from a fetus attaining fetal alcohol syndrome from its mother. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of malformations and disabilities resulting from a pregnant woman drinking heavily during her pregnancy. FAS is unique in that effe...
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Children With Fas Fas Children
468 wordsWhat is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)? FAS is the leading cause of mental retardation in the U. S. today. FAS affects approximately 1 in every 500 born in North America. Mother's drinking alcoholic beverages during pregnancy causes FAS. FAS is characterized by: Smaller heads Deformed facial features (small widely spaced eyes, underdeveloped jaw, thin upper lip, and short upturned nose). Abnormal joints and limbs- these include deformities of the small joints of the hands as well as an incomplete ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Children With Fas
2,536 words... take place. 'Recent research has led to an awareness of the importance of providing early intervention to children diagnosed with FAS, 's ays Wilton. 'Development and stimulation programs begun between birth and age 5 have made enormous differences. ' How Much Alcohol Is Too Much? It is clear that abusing alcohol during pregnancy is dangerous, but what about the occasional drink? How much alcohol constitutes too much during pregnancy? No evidence exists that can determine exactly how much al...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Effects
2,378 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects is a problem running rampant and out of control all across America. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is the effect of pregnant women-drinking alcohol. Through education, we can eradicate this expensive and debilitating disease that is plaguing our children and our country. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was first diagnosed about 25 years ago. A group of doctors at the University of Washington in Seattle corned the term Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in 1...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Urinary Tract
1,742 wordsMany pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not use precaution in their dietary habits to prevent the destruction or inhibition of such a life. Most pregnant women continue on their drinking and drug abuse binge right throughout their pregnancy. They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do not know is ...
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