NEWS and ARTICLES
The Sentinel - What's
the Buzz?: Back to school with fetal alcohol syndrome disorders
In
1999, due to a lack of public awareness and available resources,
frustrated family members and parents organized a movement to bring
awareness to FASD. The ninth minute of the ninth hour of the ninth
day of the ninth month of 1999 was chosen as the first official FASD
Awareness Day to remind the world that alcohol should not be consumed
during the nine months of pregnancy.
University
of Rochester Newsroom - Q&A: Understanding Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders
Christie
Petrenko, a research psychologist at the University of Rochester’s
Mt. Hope Family Center and an assistant professor at the Medical
Center, has been involved in research and clinical interventions with
children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and their
families for over 10 years.
The
Globe and Mail - UBC-led study makes key fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder discovery
Canadian
researchers are one step closer to uncovering a biomarker associated
with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder after identifying distinct
patterns associated with the DNA of children who were exposed to
alcohol in the womb.
ReliaWire
(UK) - Pregnant Women May Be Drinking More Than We Thought
Quantities
of alcohol consumed by pregnant women around the time of conception
may be significantly higher than previously estimated, according to a
new study from the University of Dundee.
KTVA.com
(USA) - Alaska schools leading the way for FASD awareness in the
classroom
Sept.
9 is day set aside around the world to remind women about a problem
that is 100 percent preventable and affects thousands of children a
year – Fatal Alaska Syndrome Disorder, or FASD.
Regina
Leader-Post (Canada) - Canada FASD Research Network sparks
discussion to address significant issues
Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is a complex diagnosis, and society isn’t
always built to meet the needs of those who suffer from it. The
Canada FASD Research Network kicked off the Learning Together
research setting event on Monday at the University of Regina.
Herald
Sun (Australia) - Unprotected drunken sex brings risk of
brain-damaged babies, doctors warn
BOOZING
party girls should be using contraception to avoid the risk of having
brain-damaged babies, doctors have warned.
Independent
Online (South Africa) - SA’s FAS statistics among highest in the
world
With
South Africa’s incidence of the syndrome being among the highest in
the world, an interministerial task team, chaired by Social
Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, has been set up to reduce
alcohol-related harm from the disorder.
ChronicleLive
(UK) - 'If you're pregnant, it's so important to give up drink' -
adoptive mother's plea to mums-to-be
Newcastle
mum Libby knows the challenges of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder -
and is warning mums-to-be of the consequences of drinking in
pregnancy.
Community
Care (UK) - ‘Don’t rule out foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
in young children – it might be expressed later’
Foetal
alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a lifelong, largely invisible
disability. It’s caused by prenatal alcohol exposure and is a
well-known preventable cause of intellectual and behavioural
disorders.
nordan.org - The emerging problem of fetal alcohol
Alcohol related harm is 100% unnecessary and avoidable harm. As such there is no justification for neglecting all possible measures to avoid it. Failing to do so, for both individuals and governments, would be unethical and simply wrong.
VIDEOS and MATERIALS
WHO Europe - Prevention
of harm caused by alcohol exposure in pregnancy. Rapid review and
case studies from Member States (2016)
The
lifelong disabilities caused by exposure to alcohol in pregnancy
(known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders), along with other
negative effects of exposure to alcohol on the pregnancy, are an
important public health concern.
AAP
Gateway - FYI: Vaccine storage, FASD toolkit, and more
Fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) have lifelong implications,
including physical, mental, behavioral and/or learning disabilities.
Familiarize yourself with the signs of FASD on Sept. 9, FASD Day.
Global
News.ca - Lethbridge takes new approach to raising awareness to
FASD
South
Alberta FASD Network is dropping off coasters and posters to bars, to
encourage women and potential partners to learn about the risks of
drinking during pregnancy.
FASDFOREVER
- FASD Day 2016 Pregnant Pause
Illuminate
Colorado - #PassItOn FASD Awareness Month
Port
Elizabeth (South Africa) - World Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Day
Kobus
Botha, DA MPL in the Bhisho Legislature speaks on World Foetal
Alcohol Syndrome Day.
BLAU IM BAUCH? a short
prevention film with english subtitles
FAS
Portalen (in Swedish)
Read more
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RESEARCH
Journal of Advanced
Nursing - Peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy drinking: A
cross-sectional assessment in two Scottish health board areas using a
7-day Retrospective Diary
Significant
peri-conceptual consumption levels suggest a substantial proportion
of alcohol-exposed pregnancies before pregnancy recognition. Not
taking a detailed alcohol history, including patterns of consumption,
will result in under-detection of alcohol-exposed pregnancies.
Midwifery
- Sympathy, shame, and few solutions: News media portrayals of
fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Practitioners
should be aware that conflicting messages about alcohol consumption
during pregnancy might lead to shame and confusion, and should
encourage openness with mothers to challenge stigma. Guidelines for
media reporting should discourage stigmatising frames, and media
articles should also consider the role that government,
non-government organisations, and the alcohol industry could play for
improving FASD shame.
Oxford
Handbooks Online - Burden and Social Cost of Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders
Damage
to the central nervous system is a unifying concept for nearly all of
the diagnoses that fall under the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(FASD) umbrella.
Developmental
Neurobiology - Impact of exercise and a complex environment on
hippocampal dendritic morphology, Bdnf gene expression, and DNA
methylation in male rat pups neonatally exposed to alcohol
Alcohol
exposure in utero can result in Fetal Alcohol Spectrums Disorders
(FASD). Measures of hippocampal neuroplasticity, including long-term
potentiation, synaptic and dendritic organization, and adult
neurogenesis, are consistently disrupted in rodent models of FASD.
Archives
of Clinical Neuropsychology - The Effects of Prenatal Alcohol
Exposure on Episodic Memory Functioning: A Systematic Review
In
general, studies show that PAE results in impaired verbal and
visual-spatial episodic memory performance in affected individuals
and these impairments are unlikely to be secondary to a global
impairment.
Pediatrics
- Objective Measures of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: A Systematic
Review
Current
evidence is insufficient to support the use of objective measures of
prenatal alcohol exposure in practice. Biomarkers in meconium and
placenta tissue may be the most promising candidates for further
large-scale population-based research.
Alcoholism
- Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Alters Functional
Connectivity in the Adult Rat Brain
Past
studies of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) have focused on
specific brain regions, neurotransmitter systems, and behaviors.
However, the effects of PAE on brain function and behavior are
complex and not limited to discrete brain regions.
BMJ -
Alcohol consumption and fecundability: prospective Danish cohort
study
Consumption
of less than 14 servings of alcohol per week seemed to have no
discernible effect on fertility. No appreciable difference in
fecundability was observed by level of consumption of beer and wine.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Dependientes (Spain) -
Beber sin haber nacido
María
(nombre ficticio para preservar su identidad) es madre soltera de una
niña adolescente que fue adoptada de Ucrania cuando no llegaba a
los tres años. Cuenta que su pequeña no fue diagnosticada de
Síndrome Alcohólico Fetal (SAF) hasta pasada la primaria.
wm.pl
(Poland) - Chroń dziecko przed FAS. Nie pij alkoholu w ciąży!
Picie
alkoholu w ciąży może prowadzić do poważnych powikłań u
dziecka. Jednym z nich jest płodowy zespół alkoholowy, czyli FAS.
9 września obchodzimy Światowy Dzień FAS, który ma na celu
uświadomienie przyszłym matkom skutków picia alkoholu w ciąży.
Keskisuomalainen
(Finland) - Aiotko käydä perjantaina Alkossa? Tämän takia ovet
aukeavat 9 minuuttia myöhässä
Alkon
myymälät aukeavat tulevana perjantaina 9.9. vasta kello 9.09. Syynä
on osallistuminen kansainväliseen FASD-päivään.
Postimees
(Estonia) - Raseda alkoholitarbimine mõjutab loodet alati
Tänasel
alkoholi põhjustatud sünnikahjustuste (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders – FASD) teadlikustamise päeval juhib Eesti karskusliit
tähelepanu, et ema tarbitud alkohol kahjustab alati ka loodet.
Augsburger
Allgemeine (Germany) - Wie Alkohol in der Schwangerschaft ein Kind
ein Leben lang zeichnet
Alkohol
während der Schwangerschaft kann ein Kind ein Leben lang schädigen.
Die Krankheit, unter der die Kinder leiden, nennt sich "FASD".
Hier eine Übersicht.
Svenska
YLE (Sweden/Finland) - Mammorna drack under graviditeten - nu
kämpar Helmis och Mikko i vardagen
De
som tagit skada av att deras mammor druckit alkohol under
graviditeten får alldeles för lite hjälp och stöd. De kan ha det
svårt med vardagliga saker som att hantera pengar och boende, säger
två som drabbats, Helmis och Mikko. Årligen föds det mellan 600
och 3 000 barn med olika sorters alkoholrelaterade fosterskador.
Vyšetrenie.sk
(Slovakia) - Alkohol v tehotenstve: Málokto vie, aké šokujúce
zmeny môže spôsobiť u detí!
Poznáte
riziká pitia alkoholu počas tehotenstva? Medzinárodný deň
povedomia o fetálnom alkoholovom syndróme (FAS), ktorý pripadá na
dnes, upozorňuje na dôsledky konzumácie alkoholických drinkov,
keď je žena v radostnom očakávaní. Aj pivo môže ublížiť!
DR
(Denmark) - Derfor skal du ikke drikke under graviditeten:
Fosteret får samme promille som moderen
Alkohol
og graviditet er to ting, der ikke hænger sammen. Det bliver der sat
fokus på i dag, fordi det er international Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (FASD)-dag.
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