Symptoms include dwarfism, severe bone disease,
including facial deformity, degenerative joint disease, enlarged liver and eye cloudiness.
Not exact matches
The proposed guidelines
include a new definition of documented prenatal alcohol exposure, guides to evaluating
facial and physical
deformities characteristic of FASD, and updated information about the cognitive and / or behavioral impairments seen in different FASD subtypes.
Previous contest winners
include Peanut, a Chihuahua - shih tzu mix who was abused as a puppy, resulting in hair loss and
facial deformities.
Dr. Romain Lambrot explained that there was an almost 30 percent increase in birth defects when the fathers had insufficient folate in their diet: «We were very surprised... We saw some pretty severe skeletal abnormalities that
included both cranio -
facial and spinal
deformities.»
Examples of other defects
included flipper - like limbs, organ
deformities, hearing problems, deafness, blindness, brain damage, defects to the eyes,
facial nerves, kidneys, alimentary tract, and urinary tract, spinal problems, and death.