Alcohol Effects On Fetus with preview about 40+ Images. When you drink, the alcohol passes through the umbilical cord and placenta to your baby. These disabilities are known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (fasds).
Brain and spinal cord cells are most likely to have damage. A child may have a small head, flat face. Alcohol is a teratogen, an environmental agent that impacts the normal development of an embryo or fetus.
Alcohol can pass from the mother's blood into the baby's blood.
The term fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (fasd) describes the range of alcohol effects on a child. This possibility casts new light on the heritability of alcoholism in humans. Since our last alcohol alert on fas, published in 1991, the pace of research on the effects of alcohol on the fetus has accelerated appreciably. When you drink, the alcohol passes through the umbilical cord and placenta to your baby.
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