Growing Your Baby - Study: 20% to
80% Women Drink During Their Pregnancies
There’s no real
formula for fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) – no one knows how many
drinks it takes, or why it is that some women who drink more end up
having perfectly healthy babies and those that drink less sometimes
end up having babies with FAS.
TheHealthSite -
Why it’s good for pregnant women to skip that drink
Alcohol
consumption during pregnancy has always been a topic of debate. No
one knows how much is too much as there are no defined guidelines for
it.
The Australian
(Australia) - ‘Drinking to die’ in Aboriginal communities,
says Sharman Stone
A minimum floor
price on alcohol and a tax on liquor by volume should be urgently
pursued to address the problem of harmful drinking in Aboriginal
communities, a national inquiry has found.
New Zealand Herald
(New Zealand) - Desperate parents of special needs children are
paying for teacher aides
Desperate parents
with special needs children have resorted to paying their own teacher
aides, as government resources fail to keep up with increasing
disability demand.
The Guardian
(Australia) - Foetal alcohol syndrome should be recognised as
disability, says report on Indigenous alcohol use
Standing committee
report says Indigenous children fall through cracks of education
system and later land in prison as FASD is misdiagnosed or not
treated.
KXAN.com (USA) -
Researchers find startling trend among pregnant teen drinkers
The finding is the
result of a recent study, possibly the largest of its kind according
to Dr. Christopher Salas-Wright, an assistant professor in the School
of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Conversation
AU - Women aren’t following advice to stop drinking when
pregnant
Around 40% of
Australian women drink alcohol while pregnant, despite medical
guidelines recommending they don’t.
Irish Times
(Ireland) - Alcohol in pregnancy
The effects of
drinking while pregnant (Editorial, July 8th) are not always evident
at birth, so, sadly, challenges caused by prenatal alcohol exposure
which manifest later on are not always linked back to ante-natal
experience.
Fox10News -
Chicago doctor: 'Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder' linked to
violence
Could some of the
gunmen causing so much bloodshed in Chicago be victims themselves?
More specifically, victims of brain damage suffered before they were
born?
VIDEOS
FASD DOCUMENTARY – CALL ME MENTAL
This short
documentary on FASD features several people associated with MOFAS,
the Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. The video was
created as part of a collaboration called Call Me Mental, which is
composed of artists and clinicians who want to change the attitude
toward mental illness.
RESEARCH
NCBI - Alcohol
use, smoking and their co-occurrence during pregnancy among Canadian
women, 2003 to 2011/12.
It is apparent
that smoking in any capacity, whether during pregnancy or not,
increases the likelihood that a woman consumed alcohol while
pregnant. Ascertaining smoking status among pregnant women and women
of childbearing age could be a useful screening method for
identifying those at-risk of consuming alcohol during pregnancy, and
vice versa.
Birth Defects
Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology - Unintended
pregnancies and exposure to potential human teratogens
We aimed to
investigate the risk factors associated with unintended pregnancies
as well as the association between unintended pregnancies and
potential teratogenic exposures.
Birth Defects
Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology - Maternal
periconceptional alcohol consumption and congenital heart defects
Congenital heart
defects (CHDs) are the leading cause of infant death from birth
defects. Animal studies suggest in utero alcohol exposure is a
teratogen for cardiogenesis; however, results from epidemiologic
studies are mixed.
Pan African
Medical Journal - Screening of fetal alcohol syndrome using the
T-ACE questionnaire in semi-rural areas around Lubumbashi: lessons
learned
African women
consumption of alcohol is influenced by a number of beliefs and
sociocultural considerations. In Lubumbashi in the D.R.Congo for
example, the belief that alcohol reduces sympathetic signs of
pregnancy during the first trimester is very common; this belief
however exposes unborn children to ethanol toxicity at a very early
stage of the pregnancy.
Occupational
Therapy in Health Care - The knowledge of rehabilitation
professionals concerning fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
The purpose of
this study was to explore rehabilitation professionals’ knowledge
regarding signs and symptoms, prevention, and intervention of fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).
Physical Therapy -
Virtual sensorimotor balance training for children with fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders: feasibility study
Diminished sensory
adaptation has been associated with poor balance control for children
with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). We developed a virtual
reality system, Sensorimotor Training to Affect Balance, Engagement
and Learning (STABEL), to train sensory control for balance.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Freie Presse
(Germany) - Süchtige Mamas legen Kindern schwere Bürde in die
Wiege
Grit Wagner
leidet, weil ihre leibliche Mutter auch in der Schwangerschaft
unentwegt getrunken hat. Experten kennen das als fetales
Alkoholsyndrom.
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