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 DEFINITION
The syndrome of fetal alcoholism (FAS, for his initials in English), a set of abnormalities that there present the children whose mothers consume alcohol during the pregnancy, it is the principal cause of the mental deficiency. Once the alcohol penetrates in the blood stream of the child it remains there in concentrations much raised during long periods of time, causing cerebral damage and injuring other corporal organs.
It is not known still which is the quantity of alcohol that it can damage to the fetus, but if that even the "soft" alcoholic beverages as the wine or the beer are harmful. Also it is true that the defects of birth and of development can differ, depending on what so much time the fetus was exhibited to the alcohol during his development.
SYMPTOMS
The babies with fetal alcoholic syndrome can experience the following physical symptoms:
- Under weight on having been born
- They are born very small and with simple-minded growth
- Small head
- Small eyes
- Short and smoothed nose
- Smoothed cheeks
- Small jawbones
- Formed ears of an unusual way
- Thin top lip
- Quakes or agitations
- Problems of the sight and of the ear
- Cardiac defects
- Small brain or with malformations
- Minor defects in the joints that can restrict the movements
- Teeth inclined to have caries
- Problems of the vision
- Infections in the ear
As the child grows it can develop other symptoms, including:
- Make difficult to eat and to sleep
- I am late to learn to speak
- Learning incapability
- Hyperactivity
- Under intelligence quotient
- Mental deficiency
- Few coordination
- A short attention status
- Problems of behavior
- Little aptitude to control his impulses
- Problems to socialize with other children
TREATMENT
A treatment does not exist for these children since priest does not exist. As Enloe said "For the baby the surf will last the whole life". Yes there is necessary an ambience of support in which the routines are supported, simple, extreme rules and consequences are fixed, in that the desirable conducts boast and in that there are not threatened they since the violence increases the risk that the child learns to react in a similar way. The child with this syndrome will need to come to special education.
Also it is suitable that the parents ask for the professional help to learn to fight with the care of a child with problems of birth. The training of the parents includes ways of controlling the problems of behavior and skills of control of stress.
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