Young and far from medicine mom often confused pathology of newborn and child birth injuries. In both cases we are talking about health problems of varying severity of the child, but the cause of them are completely different.
There are two ways to do this: genetics counseling before pregnancy and strict adherence to the terms of genetic screening - during pregnancy (!). Keep in mind that genetic studies of pregnant informative only in strictly defined gestational age! Miss these deadlines, you get the wrong answers.
"Acquired" disease of newborn
Doctors of all specialties, observing pregnant women, do not get tired to say that to her "interesting position" women should:
a) to prepare, that is, at a minimum, be screened for the presence of the organism of various infections, consult a geneticist, to give advance from bad habits.
b) treat the pregnancy with full responsibility: the time to visit a doctor and do all the necessary tests, strictly implement its recommendations.
What is the consequence of the violation of the rules? "Only" appearance pathology infants of varying severity.
Violation in the formation of individual organs. This pathology of newborns can be literally anywhere in the body of the child. "Weak link" in the body of the baby could be his heart, kidneys, lungs, organs of vision. Possible pathology in limb development (extra fingers, for example), etc. Causes of this in most cases - the impact on the woman's body harmful factors "external the world. " And the habit of the blame on the environment over which we have no control - is very bad. Alas, in most cases, the "thin places" in the health of the child lay the mother. Nicotine, alcohol, silly use of drugs, etc. - every woman dreams of a child, you need to clearly understand what it is doing when brings to his mouth a cigarette or a glass of wine.
Perinatal brain gipovozbudimost. The main causes of this type of pathology is a chronic neonatal oxygen Child fasting during pregnancy, intrauterine infection of the fetus, as well as - birth injuries.
Gipovozbudimosti characteristic symptoms: low muscle tone of the child, general lethargy, unwillingness to breastfeed, no crying or very low severity. These children are usually produced on moms chilling impression, but do not worry in advance: in the vast most cases, this type of pathology of newborns is corrected during the first few years of life (and sometimes and earlier). Treatment can be very different: both medical and physiotherapy, depending on the severity of the manifestations.
Perinatal brain hyperexcitability - the problem to some extent the opposite of the previous. Limbs of children who were born with this disease are usually very tense, often observed chin trembling. Children often sit and cry later - hyperactive differ mentally unstable.
This pathology of newborns in the majority of cases are not related to the number of very serious and successfully eliminated in the early childhood.
Hypertension-hydrocephalic syndrome It occurs because of an increased intracranial pressure. Characteristic for this type of pathology of newborn symptom - an increased volume of the head, bulging fontanelle, the disproportion between the front and the cerebral part of the skull. The behavior of children suffering from hypertension-hydrocephalic syndrome - very different. Children can be a scary-sluggish in their life forms, and morbidly active. In severe cases there may be a pronounced lag in development.
