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Question 1

What are Teratogens?

Answer 1

any chemical substance, environmental agent, disease, or maternal condition that can cause birth effects

Question 2

what are the three maternal conditions?

Answer 2

• Stress
• Malnutrition
• Maternal age

Question 3

what does the maternal condition stress lead too?

Answer 3

• pregnancy complications

- higher rates of down syndrome

Question 4

what does the maternal condition Malnutrition lead too?

Answer 4

• prermaturity
• low birth weight
• stillbirth
• growth retardation
• intellectual deficit

Question 5

what does the maternal condition Maternal age lead too?

Answer 5

• older women have higher rates of delivery complications
• down syndrome
• difficulty getting pregnant

Question 6

What is Diethylstilbestrol?

Answer 6

• a drug that affects hormones
• was primarily around in 1947-1964
• daughter that were born wold get a high chance of getting cervical cancer do to this drug

Question 7

what is Thalidomide?

Answer 7

• an anti- nausea medicine

- was primarily around in the 50’s-60’s

Question 8

what does Thalidomide cause?

Answer 8

• eye defects
• clifted palate
• phocomelia (limb missing, legs shorter with foot like thing on end of it, or short arms with a hand like object at the end)