Fetal alcohol syndrome: A condition which occurs in a new born fetus and is caused by the mother consuming excess alcohol during her pregnancy. See free access online books about Fetal alcohol syndrome below. See detailed information below for a list of 4 causes of Fetal alcohol syndrome, including diseases and drug side effect causes.
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Alcohol can cause a range of birth defects, the most serious being fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Children born with alcohol-related birth defects can have lifelong learning and behavior problems. Those born with FAS have physical abnormalities, mental impairment, and behavior problems. Because scientists do not know exactly how much alcohol it takes to cause alcohol-related birth defects, it is best not to drink any alcohol during this time. (Source: excerpt from Alcohol What You Don't Know Can Harm You: NIAAA)
Alcohol can cause a range of birth defects, the most serious being fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Children born with alcohol-related birth defects can have lifelong learning and behavior problems. Those born with FAS have physical abnormalities, mental impairment, and behavior problems. Because scientists do not know exactly how much alcohol it takes to cause alcohol-related birth defects, it is best not to drink any alcohol during this time. (Source: excerpt from Alcohol What You Don't Know Can Harm You: NIAAA)
Fetal alcohol syndrome: a pattern of malformation with growth deficiency, craniofacial anomalies, and functional deficits including mental retardation that can result when a woman drinks alcohol during pregnancy. SYN: fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Developmental abnormalities in infants born to alcoholic mothers, including characteristic facial appearance (microcephaly, maxillary hypoplasia, short palpebral fissures, and short upturned nose), growth deficiency, delayed intellectual development, motor retardation, joint abnormalities, poor coordination, and irritability. The pattern of abnormalities varies and may include additional oral, ocular, cardiac, urogenital, cutaneous, and other abnormalities.
- (Source - Diseases Database)
A medical condition in which body deformation or facial development or mental ability of a fetus is impaired because the mother drank alcohol while pregnant
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Disorder occurring in children born to alcoholic women who continue to drink heavily during pregnancy; common abnormalities are growth deficiency (prenatal and postnatal), altered morphogenesis, mental deficiency, and characteristic facies - small eyes and flattened nasal bridge; fine motor dysfunction and tremulousness are observed in the newborn.
- (Source - CRISP)
Fetal alcohol syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Fetal alcohol syndrome, or a subtype of Fetal alcohol syndrome,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
- (Source - National Institute of Health)
The list below shows some of the causes of Fetal alcohol syndrome mentioned in various sources:
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This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Fetal alcohol syndrome. Of the 4 causes of Fetal alcohol syndrome that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
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The following list of conditions have 'Fetal alcohol syndrome' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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Medical Conditions associated with Fetal alcohol syndrome:
Alcohol use (11 causes), Behavioral symptoms (3957 causes), Social problems (36 causes), Drug abuse (20 causes), Personality symptoms (3427 causes), Mental problems (2653 causes), Learning disabilities (365 causes), Developmental problems (1653 causes), Infant symptoms (2479 causes), School problems (382 causes), Society problems (1433 causes), Addiction symptoms (26 causes)
Symptoms related to Fetal alcohol syndrome:
Birth defects (303 causes), Alcohol abuse (8 causes), Alcoholism, Prenatal alcohol exposure, Microcephaly (23 causes), Intrauterine growth retardation
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