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Drinking alcohol during pregnancy may result in:Miscarriage or stillbirthPremature deliveryComplications seen in the infant may include:Abnormal heart structureBehavior problemsInfant deathMental retardationProblems in the structure of the head, e...
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Some of the factors that have been found to reduce the risk of secondary disabilities in FAS individuals include diagnosis before the age of six years, stable and nurturing home environments, never having experienced personal violence, and referra...
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The prognosis for FAS depends on the severity of birth defects and the brain damage present at birth. Miscarriage, stillbirth, or death in the first few weeks of life may occur in very severe cases.
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The prognosis for FAS depends on the severity of birth defects and the brain damage present at birth. Miscarriage, stillbirth or death in the first few weeks of life may occur in very severe cases.
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The prognosis for FAS depends on the severity of birth defects and the brain damage present at birth. Mis-carriage, stillbirth or death in the first few weeks of life may be outcomes in very severe cases.
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The prognosis for FAS depends upon the severity of birth defects and brain damage present at birth. Miscarriage and stillbirth, or death in the first few weeks of life, may be outcomes in very severe cases.
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Birth defects are physical abnormalities that are present at birth; they are also called congenital abnormalities. More than 3,000 have been identified.Birth defects are found in 2-3% of all newborn infants.
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Prevention of birth defects with folic acid(folate).
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Any unusual variation or abnormality in the shape, structure, and/or function of an organ, body part, or tissue is commonly referred to as a birth defect. However, congenital anomaly is the more accurate and preferred term, since birth defect can ...
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Defects present at birth, resulting from hereditary factors, environmental influences, or maternal illness.Birth or congenital defects are present at birth and result from hereditary factors, environmental influences, or maternal illness. Such def...
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A congenital anomaly may be viewed as a physical, metabolic, or anatomic deviation from the normal pattern of development that is apparent at birth or detected during the first year of life. Under this definition, Mendelian genetic disorders(e.g.,...
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(Also Specific Developmental Disorder).A learning disability is a disorder that inhibits or interferes with the skills of learning, including speaking, listening, reading, writing, or mathematical ability. Legally, a learning disabled child is one...
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Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence. People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination.of the three.
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Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence. People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three.
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Learning disorders(LD) refer to a significant deficit in learning due to a person''s inability to interpret what is seen and heard, or to link information from different parts of the brain.
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Learning disorders, or learning disabilities, are disorders that cause problems in speaking, listening, reading, writing, or mathematical ability.A learning disability, or specific developmental disorder, is a disorder that inhibits or interferes ...
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Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence. People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three.
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Microcephaly describes a head size significantly below normal for a person''s age and sex, based on standardized charts. Head size is measured as the distance around the top of the head.Microcephaly most often occurs because of failure of the brain...
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The condition often signals an abnormally small brain and the presence of other disorders such as cerebral palsy.Microcephaly can be caused by genetic and chromosomal abnormalities, or by environmental factors such as prenatal radiation exposure, ...
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Microcephaly is a neurological disorder where the distance around the largest portion of the head(the circumference) is less than should normally be the case in an infant or a child. The condition can be evident at birth, or can develop within the...
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Delayed growth is poor or abnormally slow height or weight gains in a child younger than age 5.Growth- slow(child 0- 5 years); Weight gain- slow(child 0- 5 years); Slow rate of growth; Retarded growth and development.A child should have regular, w...
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Hyperactivity is a state of too much muscle activity. This term is also used to describe a situation when a particular portion of the body is too active, such as when a gland produces too much of its particular hormone.See also: Attention deficit ...
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Mental retardation is a condition diagnosed before age 18 that includes below-average general intellectual function, and a lack of the skills necessary for daily living.Mental retardation affects about 1- 3% of the population. There are many cause...
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Mental retardation(MR) is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as a level of intellectual functioning(as measured by standard intelligence tests) that is well below average and results in sig...
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Mental retardation(MR) is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as a level of intellectual functioning(as measured by standard intelligence tests) that is well below average and results in sig...
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Mental retardation is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as an intellectual functioning level(as measured by standard tests for intelligence quotient) that is well below average and signifi...
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Mental retardation is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as an intellectual functioning level(as measured by standard tests for intelligence quotient) that is well below average and signifi...
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According to the definition in the American Psychiatric Association''s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual(DSM-IV), a mentally retarded person is significantly limited in at least two of the following areas: self-care, communication, home living, soc...
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(Also called sociocultural or cultural-familial retardation).Mild mental retardation attributed to environmental causes and generally involving some degree of psychosocial disadvantage.The majority of persons suffering from mental retardation fall...
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Sudden infant death syndrome(SIDS) is the unexpected, sudden death of a child under age 1 in which an autopsy does not show an explainable cause of death.SIDS rates have dropped dramatically since 1992, when parents were first told to put babies t...
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Sudden infant death syndrome(SIDS) is the sudden, unexpected death of a seemingly normal, healthy infant under one year of age that remains unexplained after a thorough postmortem investigation, including an autopsy and a review of the case histor...
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Sudden infant death syndrome(SIDS) is the unexplained death without warning of an apparently healthy infant, usually during sleep.Also known as crib death, SIDS has baffled physicians and parents for years. In the 1990s, advances have been made in...
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A miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy.(Pregnancy losses after the 20th week are called preterm deliveries.).A miscarriage may also be called a"spontaneous abortion."
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A miscarriage is the loss of an embryo or fetus before the twentieth week of pregnancy. A pregnancy loss after the twentieth week is called a stillbirth.According to the December 1999 news release from the U.S. government''s National Center for Hea...
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Although it may be psychologically difficult, if a woman has a miscarriage at home she should try to collect any material she passes in a clean container for analysis in a laboratory. This may help determine why the miscarriage occurred.An incompl...
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Although researchers have long sought a way to prevent premature birth, an estimated 9% of infants are still born prematurely, costing the United States billions of dollars in health care expenditures annually. Neonatal intensive care costs for a ...
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A stillbirth is when a fetus that was expected to survive dies during birth or during the late stages of pregnancy.
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A stillbirth is defined as the death of a fetus at any time after the 20th week of pregnancy. Stillbirth is also referred to as intrauterine fetal death(IUFD).It is important to distinguish between a stillbirth and other words that describe the un...
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Uncoordinated movement is muscle control problem or an inability to finely coordinate movements, which results in a jerky, unsteady, to-and-fro motion of the middle of the body(trunk) and unsteady gait(walking style). The condition is called ataxi...
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Small for gestational age(SGA) means a fetus or infant is smaller in size than normal for the baby''s gender and gestational age.Intrauterine growth restriction(IUGR); Low birth weight.Ultrasound is used to find out if a fetus is smaller-than-norma...
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Small for gestational age, also known as intrauterine growth retardation, is defined as an infant or fetus smaller in size than expected, meaning a weight in the bottom tenth percentile for a particular age. Small for gestational age is believed t...
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Small for gestational age(SGA) describes infants who weigh less than they should given their gestational age(the weeks they have spent in the uterus).SGA infants can be premature, full-term, or post- term; such infants are simply not as large as w...
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