Essay On Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Alcohol is considered to be the leading problem of developmental disabilities and birth defects in the United States. There is a difference between heavy drinking during pregnancy and a few glasses of red wine throughout the entire pregnancy. Fetal alcohol syndrome or FAS is caused from heavy drinking. Another type of fetal disease is fetal alcohol spectrum disorders or FASD. This type of disease involves many different types of learning, behavioral, and physical problems. Fetal alcohol syndrome just happens to be the severe type of them all.
As most people know pregnant people should not drink any type of alcohol and no amount of alcohol. Any and all amounts can damage a developing fetus as well as raising the risk of a miscarriage. Alcohol …show more content…
The fetus is dependent on the mother for most nutrients and the fetus depends on the maternal hepatic detoxification that being alcohol dehydrogenase in the unborn child is less than 10% in their liver. This makes it so amniotic fluid is a reservoir for the alcohol and making the exposure longer. Ethanol and all of its metabolite acetaldehyde can make the fetal development disturbed by cellular differentiation, growth, and mess up DNA, cell migration, and protein synthesis. Acetaldehyde and ethanol also modify the metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Alcohol can even decrease the transferring of zinc, folic acid, glucose and amino acids across the placenta. This makes it so the fetus is being deprived of the important nutrients needed. Many studies have shown that alcohol to the unborn child alters the basal, poststress cortisol levels, and the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis.
In the United States there is to be an estimated one or two cases of fetal alcohol syndrome per one thousand live births. Fetal alcohol syndrome has not been studied all that careful to know the perfect and real numbers. Although there was one study that showed about one in one hundred children have some sort of related alcohol effects. Because of the fact heavy drinking is different throughout the world the rate range from 4% to
As most people know pregnant people should not drink any type of alcohol and no amount of alcohol. Any and all amounts can damage a developing fetus as well as raising the risk of a miscarriage. Alcohol …show more content…
The fetus is dependent on the mother for most nutrients and the fetus depends on the maternal hepatic detoxification that being alcohol dehydrogenase in the unborn child is less than 10% in their liver. This makes it so amniotic fluid is a reservoir for the alcohol and making the exposure longer. Ethanol and all of its metabolite acetaldehyde can make the fetal development disturbed by cellular differentiation, growth, and mess up DNA, cell migration, and protein synthesis. Acetaldehyde and ethanol also modify the metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Alcohol can even decrease the transferring of zinc, folic acid, glucose and amino acids across the placenta. This makes it so the fetus is being deprived of the important nutrients needed. Many studies have shown that alcohol to the unborn child alters the basal, poststress cortisol levels, and the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis.
In the United States there is to be an estimated one or two cases of fetal alcohol syndrome per one thousand live births. Fetal alcohol syndrome has not been studied all that careful to know the perfect and real numbers. Although there was one study that showed about one in one hundred children have some sort of related alcohol effects. Because of the fact heavy drinking is different throughout the world the rate range from 4% to