Fetal_Alcohol_Syndrome

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Many pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not use precaution in their dietary habits to prevent the destruction or inhibition of such a life. Most pregnant women continue on their drinking and drug abuse binge right throughout their pregnancy. They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do not know is that when a woman drinks while pregnant it could do damage, and pose problems not only to herself, but to the fetus that she is carrying. The problem' FAS, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. According to many physicians it is the leading cause of birth defects and developmental disabilities in the United States today. Douglas A. Milligan states that, "FAS is the single greatest cause of mental retardation in the U.S. today". ( Seachrist, p. 314) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was first named and treated and found in the late 1960's. This condition results from the toxic effect of alcohol and its chemical factors on the developing fetus and its brain. The alcohol enters the fetal, fas, alcohol, development, children, fetus, growth, during, abnormalities, very, michaelis, vitamin, because, period, lack, factors, martinez, two, problems, pregnancy, normal, mother, maternal, effect, diagnosis, defects, causes, brain, between, tissues, placenta, occur, directly, damage, women, within, syndrome, substances, skills, should, retardation, pregnant, pattern, nutritional, nose, involved, gestation, exposure, deficiency, deficiencies, consumption