risk factors for Bipolar disorders. This marriage system has been reported as an important factor in the appearance of autosomal recessive diseases and congenital anomalies, including hydrocephalus, postaxial hand polydactyly and bilateral cleft lip cleft palate, bipolar disorders, depression, dysferlinopathy, reproductive disorders, sterility, infant mortality, child deaths, spontaneous abortions and stillbirths etc. Also there are reports indicating positive association between consanguinity…
Toddlers toddlers everywhere! There are over 1.9 billion children over the world and 74 million children live in the United States. Children explore the world and questions their surrounding every minute and every second. They grow at a flashing speed, but they are not the only one that learns with their growth. Doctors, or more specifically, pediatricians, also learn as they treat their patients and watch them grow. Pediatricians are medical doctors that specialize in children and their…
The relationship between birth and smoking is critical and should be taking serious, as stated before smoking while pregnant is dangerous and can lead to some serious birth defects that include but aren’t limited to cleft lip, heart problems, missing or shortened limbs, and asthma we know that becoming pregnant can be very overwhelming, but you can give your baby the perfect first gift just by quitting your habit. Cite page - “smoking during pregnancy…
We are all born with many things we take for granted. Properly developed brains, facial features in their correct places, and a life span longer than a few hours. Some children who are born with holoprosencephaly, or HPE, aren't quite as lucky. Victims of this disease suffer with various abnormalities to the face and brain, sometimes resulting in death. Their symptoms can range from almost normal facial features and brain development, to something most of us thought only occurred in fictional…
abnormality in the way a new born’s body looks or functions. There are two different kinds of birth defects, structural and functional. According to Medicine Net “[s]tructural birth defects are related to a problem with body parts such as cleft lip or cleft palate” (sec. 1). As opposed to a functional birth defect that is “related to a problem with how a body part or body system works” (“Medicine Net” sec. 1). In the United States there are about 120,000 babies that are born with birth…
Observing a lunar eclipse is said to cause complications such as a baby developing a cleft lip/palate, or the infant resembling a "particular fruit if the mom craves that fruit" (Clark, 2014). Mexican females who are pregnant are normally cared for by other female relatives, but after the birth the mother is said to hold all responsibility for…
Are Air pollutants Connect to Birth Defects? Every minute 251 babies are born around the world, which adds up to be 361,481 a day and 130 million a year. Eight million of those babies are born with birth defects two thirds due to unknown causes. My purpose to this research paper is to get an idea on what may be the cause to some of those babies to have birth defects and their relevance and connection to harsh air pollutants that their mothers breath in during their pregnancy. The first…
1) What are some possible correlates of phonological and articulatory impairments? These disorders are not promptly available, in some cases the causes are unknown. The correlations can occur together, or in some cases one is not necessarily caused by the other. Some of the possible factors of phonological and articulatory impairments can be developmental impairment in speech-sound production, language impairment in their production of sounds of the language, hearing impairments which enable…
to help improve children’s developmental delays and disabilities such as not being able to roll over or walk or talk by the time frame that it is expected. Early intervention also helps with children that have physical disabilities such as cleft lip and palate that will impair their speech or cerebral palsy that affects many things like speech and the ability to walk. “Children with more severe disabilities tend to have a constant rate of improvement regardless when they start (Malone,…
smooth philtrum (the grove between the nose and upper lip), small head circumference (microcephaly), small eye opening, small midface, a small chin and a thin upper lip. Physically the subject may have stunted growth and low birth weight as well as some or all of the facial features. They many also have hand crease alterations, small finger and toe nails. Strabismus, also known as crossed eyes, is often seen. They many also have cleft palates and dental overcrowding seen. Increased or decreased…