Fetal alcohol syndrome

Introduction Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), also known as fetal alcohol syndrome, is a permanent birth defect caused by alcohol abuse in the mother during pregnancy. The degree will be affected by the weight, frequency and time of the mother's drinking. Alcohol enters the placenta and impedes the growth and weight of the fetus, causing unique facial plaques, damaging neurons and brain structures, and causing problems such as physical fitness, mentality, or behavior.

Cause

Pregnant women drink alcohol to cause serious damage to the fetus.

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Low weight, central nervous system developmental disorders, may have microcephaly: facial is very strange, forehead protrusion, small eye crack, strabismus, deep bottom of the nose, short nose, nose to the sky, upper lip inward contraction, fan wind ear; Malformations of the heart and limbs.

Differential diagnosis

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has evaluated the following nine syndromes, all of which are characterized by overlapping with fetal alcohol syndrome, but none of them include facial features of all three fetal alcohol syndromes, and are not due to prenatal alcohol. Caused by exposure:

Alskog's syndrome

William's syndrome

Luneng Syndrome

Dubowitz syndrome

Dazza syndrome

Toluene syndrome

Fetal hydantoin syndrome

Fetal valproic acid syndrome

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