Spina Bifida facts
While investigating facts about Spina Bifida Occulta and Spina Bifida Types, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Folic acid (vitamin B9) has been added to grains in the U.S. to prevent the birth defects spina bifida and anencephaly since 1998, but most of Europe including the U.K., Ireland, Germany, as well as China, India and more than 60 other countries still do not fortify grains with folic acid.
how spina bifida occurs?
Virchow named many medical and scientific terms including chromatin, parenchyma and spina bifida.
What spina bifida means?
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what's spina bifida?
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10-20% of people unknowingly have spina bifida occulta, a mild version of the neural tube defect. While SB usually has more severe symptoms and effect symptoms for SBO are either nonexistant or mild. If found at all, SBO is usually found unintentionally.
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To decrease cases of Spina Bifida, the U.S. Food & Drugs Administration decided to, in 1996, add Folic Acid to the flour we consume. This vitamin B only reduces risk of such malformation if taken before fertilization. When only after, all neural tube damage that could occur, already have.
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The first baby treated in uterus for spina bifida in Europe is born and is healthy. Doctors say the he is likely to not need more surgeries.
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An Iraqi baby who received treatment in the US for her spina bifida in 2005 still needs help.
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68% of children with spina bifida have an allergy to latex
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Surgeons repair spina bifida in fetus for 1st time in Canada, hospitals say
