Not exact matches
«In the
case Child Poverty Action Group represented, it was clearly not possible for a child with spina
bifida and another with Down Syndrome to share a bedroom together with such different demands and needs.
A lack of folic acid enrichment in Europe is the cause of several thousand
cases of foaetal abnormalities e.g. spina
bifida.
That's been the
case ever since it was discovered that women who had diets low in folate were more likely to have babies with birth defects, including spina
bifida, in which a baby's spinal cord doesn't develop properly.
It is similar to the human condition Chiari malformation (some vets refer to it as Arnold Chiari syndrome which can be confusing as the original description by Arnold was of syringomyelia associated with spina
bifida and this is not the
case in the CKCS).
Unfortunately, there is not much of a treatment for extreme
cases of Spina
Bifida for cats.
In some
cases, an undiagnosed
case of spina
bifida also can lead to a spinal cord injury.