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According to leading experts, the consumption of alcohol during pregnancy, the leading preventable cause of mental and physical deformities in the United States is known. It was also shown to be the leading known cause of mental retardation in the Western world.

Despite these very real and terrifying dangers, many pregnant women still drink alcohol. Statistics show that each year born in the United States, is one of 750 babies with all of these functional, physical and developmental problems. Another 40,000 are born each year with fetal alcohol effects (FAE). The primary effect of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome are permanent and irreversible damage to the brain and central nervous system. This effectively means there is no cure, if the damage is done.

The effects of the syndrome on the children are several features of the face: flat cheekbones, an indistinct philtrum, and small eye openings. A thin upper lip and smooth philtrum are signs of a professional FAS used to diagnose. The presence of FAS facial features indicates brain damage, although brain damage may also exist if they are not. The risk factor for brain damage increases significantly as the eyes become smaller, the philtrum is flat, and the lip is thinner. In fact, studies show that these are the other prominent FAS attributes, the more likley of brain diseases.

Individuals with FAS also show learning difficulties, poor impulse control, do not understand personal boundaries, can not manage anger, signs of stubbornness, tend far too friendly with strangers, show poor daily living skills, develop experience delays, make poor attention or concentration they easily distracted. mental retardation, epilepsy, display confusion under pressure trying to show effort to distinguish between fantasy and reality, have slower thought processing, display poor judgment and lack of fine motor and gross motor skills.

Since the problems associated with FAS as children go into adulthood is more likely to intensify, even these people show an increased incidence of mental illness, are more exposed, expelled from school or school failure and are more likely to be charged or convicted of a crime. FAS-affected are rather inappropriate sexual behavior to sexual advances, touching or sexual promiscuity have, and suffer from alcohol and drug abuse or dependence. Children with FAE display the same symptoms, but to a lesser extent.

Every pregnancy is different. The consumption of alcohol can cause more damage or problems in a baby more than another. They had one child, born healthy and another child is born with problems. Mothers consume alcohol during the first trimester of pregnancy have children with the most severe problems because that is when the brain develops. The connections in the baby’s brain does not get properly made when alcohol is present.

Brain cells and structures are underdeveloped or defective by the prenatal exposure. The risk of brain damage exists during the entire pregnancy, though, as the fetal brain develops continuously through each trimester. Although full FAS is the result of chronic alcohol consumption during pregnancy, FAE and Arnd with only occasional or binge drinking “to damage, difficult one developing country appear nervous system.

Obviously alcohol abuse during pregnancy is dangerous. There is no evidence that determines how much alcohol consumption will produce birth defects. Individual women process alcohol differently, and many women do not even know they are pregnant in the first months.

Alcohol is a teratogen, and the only sure way to prevent FAS is to drink the alcohol before he is to be avoided at any time pregnant or during pregnancy. Since experts do not know whether the difference in the amount of damage done to the fetus by the amount of times alcohol is consumed, or consumed at what time during pregnancy alcohol, is the current recommendation for the first time by the Surgeon General will be made in causing 1981 and again in 2005 for a woman to drink at all, while they expect or plan to become pregnant.

Alcohol passes quickly the placenta and the developing fetus is not equipped to eliminate alcohol, tends to get the fetus to a high concentration of alcohol, which lingers longer than in the mother system. It runs the risk of the birth of a child, pay the price for their alcohol consumption, both in mental and physical deficiencies or behavioral problems throughout his entire life. People with serious problems may experience physical and mental disabilities, can not in a position to care for themselves as adults, and quite often, they may never be able to work, what a burden for both the intended parents and society as a whole.

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