Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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"The federal government has set up The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) as a way to deal with the rising problems associated with improper nutrition during pregnancy. In so doing, however, WIC has witnessed the rise of a once little known or understood problem called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). The purpose of this paper will be to discuss FAS, including a description of the illness; its cause; the demographic characteristics of its sufferers; the methods of treatment and/or of coping with its corresponding problems; and the current thinking for lowering the number of FAS cases.

Though most pregnancies are uneventful, more than half a million women a year are at increased risk during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and usually it is the baby whose health or life is at stake (4:4). The creation of WIC was established to ... "

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