A very common fear for mothers in today society is that their child will be born with an illness, whether it be physically or mentally. Some mothers avoid certain things, such as vaccines or x-rays, to protect the safety or reputation of the child. X-rays, for example, have always been a concern to cause birth defects. If the radiation is strong enough it actually could be very harmful to a baby, that is why when women go to the doctor, specialists ask patients if they are pregnant or could be pregnant because they do not want to put the patient under an X-ray and cause harm to the baby. Birth defects affect 1 in 33 unborn children and cause 1 in 5 infant deaths.…
Cataract surgery does not take very long, and it is common to feel good rather quickly after you have cataract surgery. However, in order for your eyes to properly heal following your cataract surgery, you’ll want to make sure you follow the tips below. #1 Don’t Rush Out Of The Recovery Area After your surgery you will be taken to a recovery area. This is an area where you can rest and really wake up from either your sedation or anesthesia.…
“Teen girls, whose bodies are not yet ready for childbirth, are five times more likely to die. Not only do 70,000 girls ages 15-19 die each year from pregnancy and childbirth, but the babies that do survive have a 60% higher chance of dying as well”( Paula Glennon). There are many conditions that can happen to a woman before and during pregnancy that can be detrimental to her and the fetus. In fact, Ectopic pregnancy (tubal pregnancy) occurs at a rate of 19.7 cases per 1,000 pregnancies in North America and is a leading cause of maternal mortality in the first trimester (Josie L Tenure). There are hundreds of other complications that can arise during pregnancy.…
Non-classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia or NCAH is a disorder that affects both men and women from late childhood through the rest of their lives. Compared to its sister form, classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia, it is non-life threatening. The Mayo Clinic, a service that gives people medical information and helps set up doctor appointments, defines NCAH as “a collection of genetic conditions that limit your adrenal glands' ability to make certain vital hormones.” These vital hormones include, but aren’t limited to, estrogen, testosterone, aldosterone, androgens and corticosteroids. Non-classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia is an uncommon disorder affecting only one percent of the population in a 1 to 1000 ratio, according to the National Library of Medicine.…
There was great concern that Egypt was not well protected due to the great trade routes crossing the Sinai from Palestine, linking Egypt with other cultures of the Near East. Those same trade routes could be used to attack Egypt as well. Access to Egypt came primarily through the northeast Delta. Cataracts protected by strategically fortified garrisons, controlled any approach to Egypt. A cataract is a rushing stream of water in a natural setting.…
Previous discoveries have proven to be effective in the prevention of infant deaths. For instance, with the development of surfactant, the death of premature infants from respiratory distress syndrome has decreased. Also, the discovery of antenatal corticosteroid treatments to avoid premature labor and aid in fetal lung maturation has reduced the amount of infants dying from premature birth, respiratory distress syndrome, and internal hemorrhage. Supporting research would create new ways to prevent infant death from conditions that do not have a current…
Learning about different things is always fun. Preventing things like this for later on in life is important when being pregnant. Knowing the risks and how to treat your child when having a birth defect is always important. Learning about this just to warn other women to take precaution so their infants can grow healthy and strong. You may also want to find out if your going to be a full time parent to them or hire someone to help you with the care of the child.…
Dangers of vaping A vape pen is an e-cigarette. A similar device for using marijuana, which vaporizes the active molecules in concentrated marijuana oil. Also called vaping pen,vaporizer pen. They've started to become popular back in 2013.…
The most common debilitating effect of alcohol on a fetus is mental retardation.3 Some studies have shown that children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder have an IQ within the “normal” range, however. Even though intellectual disability isn’t needed to diagnose fetal alcohol syndrome, most babies effected by it do exhibit these impairments, along with facial abnormalities. These can include a smooth philtrum, thin upper lip, depressed nasal bridge, short nose, flat midface, and short palpebral fissures.2(p133), 3 Fetal alcohol syndrome can also cause problems with cognitive processes located in the frontal lobes.3 The frontal lobe is responsible for decision-making, especially when pertaining to goals, and also helps define an individual’s personality.8 This can lead to a vast array of problems, especially later on in life.…
Fetal alcohol syndrome is a condition in a child that is caused from exposure to alcohol during the mother's pregnancy. Fetal alcohol syndrome causes growth problems and brain damage. The problems caused by fetal alcohol syndrome can vary from child to child, but defects caused by fetal alcohol syndrome are irreversible. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a number of birth defects such as, mental, behavioral and learning problems. It has not been proven how much alcohol consumed during pregnancy causes Fetal Alcohol Syndrome but it has but has been said no known amount of alcohol is safe to drink while you are pregnant.…
The corpus callosum is an area of the brain that connects the left and right hemispheres in order allow communication throughout different sections of a brain. This acts as the main communication pathway in order to coordinate different sections of the brain to perform various tasks. Proper development of this portion of the brain is vital to ensure that no major abnormalities may cause possible issues in longterm development. If it fails to develop by either not being able to grow properly or becoming damaged in some sort of way, it may cause autism or additional problems in the needs of living a daily life. These problems may include difficulty with vision or depth perception due to the fact of human eyes are connected to different sections…
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Sandra Reynoso | MDCA 1409 | 09/19/2016 PAGE 1 Just one you might say. But did you know that just one alcoholic drink can permanently harm your unborn child. Your child might suffer from many birth defects like facial abnormalities, lower IQ, problems in their central nervous system among many others. All this can be prevented!…
This individual person can have children but it would only affect the person with the syndrome. There is no cure but researchers are trying to examine a way to find a cure in the future to help cat eye syndrome, the researchers are aiming to examine emotional adjustment, memory, and brain structure. Cat eye syndrome is hard to battle because researchers are finding a cure and the individual has to take many pills if they don’t want surgery or if they don’t want to take pills they have no choice but to have surgery. Cat eye syndrome has lots of symptoms as far as structure defect by the iris of the eye, skins tags to the ear, narrowing or closure of the anus, these symptoms are signs that the individual has cat eye…
These hazards include drugs such as narcotics, alcohol, smoking and nicotine containing drinks. The mother’s condition is also a major determinant of the success of pre-natal development. Maternal malnourishment, stress and diseases during pregnancy expose the fetus to the risks of infections and deformities. Teenage and old age also present a risk to prenatal development. Blood composition of the fetus and the mother are major determinants of prenatal development.…
This was a fun exercise to wrap up the term. With this presentation, I tried to hit a topic that is near and dear to my own career aspirations in optometry. As I have stated in several posts over the term, optometry (like dentistry or even public health) is a vastly underrated field of medicine. And with my long-term dream of getting into pediatric optometry and working with children with visual impairments, I saw an opportunity to bring the eyes and community health assessment into one project. Largely due to more accessible data sources and information, I found this project was achievable with minimal difficulty compared to the prior exercise.…