Cerebral Palsy
Describe Cerebral Palsy
What is a variety of motor system problems?
Describe Cleft lip and/or Cleft Palate.
What is a gap in the upper lip or palate(the roof of the mouth)?
Describe Down Syndrome
What is a group of problems that may include, among other conditions, metal retardation; problems of the heart, blood, and digestive system; and poor muscle tone?
Describe Cystic Fibrosis
What affects the respiratory and digestive systems?
Describe Muscular Dystrophy
What is progressive shrinking and weakness of the muscles
Causes of Cerebral Palsy
What is damage to the brain before, during, or shortly after birth?
Causes of Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Plate
What is a condition that may be caused by hereditary or environmental factors or both?
Causes of Down Syndrome
Causes of Cystic Fibrosis
What is an inherited defective recessive genes from both parents(more likely to affect Caucasians than African or Asian Americans)?
Causes of Muscular Dystrophy
What is Hereditary
Detection of Cerebral Palsy
What is underdeveloped motor skills?
Detection of Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Palate
What is apparent at birth and can be detected by ultrasound before birth?
Detection of Down Syndrome
What is detected in a fetus by amniocentesis or chorionic villi sampling, or after birth by a blood test?
Detection of Cystic Fibrosis
What symptoms include very salty sweat and a cough that doesn't go away? (blood test can identify carriers of the gene and sweat test can diagnose an affected child)
Detection of Muscular Dystrophy
What is genetic counseling
Treatment of Cerebral Palsy
What is physical/speech therapy, surgery, and medication can lessen effects
What is surgery corrects the gap and helps eliminate the problems associated with it.
Treatment of Down Syndrome
What is therapy, special educational assistance, and in some cases corrective surgery?
Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis
What birth defect has no known cure and can be helped though special diets, lung exercises, therapies, and medication?
Treatment of Muscular Dystrophy
What is physiscal therapy to minimize disabilities
BONUS: What birth defect can NOT be detected during pregnancy
What is Down Syndrome?
BONUS: What are the 4 main causes if birth defects?
What is Environmental, Hereditary, Errors in Chromosomes, Interaction of Hereditary / Environmental
BONUS: The difference between stillbirth and miscarrage
What is 20 weeks and before is a miscarrage and after 20 weeks it's a stillbirth?
BONUS: The amount of babies born around the world with birth defects.
What is 150,000 babies?
BONUS: T or F: fetal alcohol effect worse than fetal alcohol syndrome
What is true?