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Drug Effects on Unborn
Discussed at Meet Here
By MARGARET MARTIN
Times Medical Writer
Researchists who-study birth
defects have "not even touched
the effects mind —. expanding
drugs might have on women of
child bearing age," and their,
children, Dr. Dean J. Danner,
assistant professor of chemistry
at Northwestern State Universi-ty
said here last night.
Danner spoke to. the North-west
Louisiana Section, Ameri-can
Chemical Society.
Drugs are a chemical which
can act on the unborn, Danner
pointed out, using thaljdomide
as an example of what drugs
can do to the uniborn.
Thalidomide was a tranquili-zer
which "had a great calming;
effect on the patients," Danner
said, "until Anstralian physi-cians
pointed out that the high
incidence of malformed children
of women who had taken the
drag."
The babies, he said, had no
arms or legs or their arms and
legs were malformed.
Decreased vitamin or oxygen
and some food additives could
result in a deformed child, he
said.
Viral infections can-also cause
birth defects, he said. Seme
virus will cross the placenta and
affect the baby, some won't,
and "we can't explain why this
occurs," he said.
If the mother is exposed to
German measles in the first
trimester, there is a high
percentage baby will have a
birth defect, such as a hearing
loss, eyesight problems, or
mental retardation, Danner
said.
Hereditary birth defects in-clude
spinalfifida and the cleft
palet.
The child born with a heredi-tary
birth defect, he said,
usually has multiple problems.
The hereditary birth defect is
not always evident at birth,
Danner p o i n .t e d out, giving
Huntington's Chorea as an ex-ample.
The disease does not
show up until age 35-40 and then
only in the male.
A genteic abnormality comes
about because of inborn errors
of metabolism, he said.
Early detection and treatment
are important in working with
birth defects. Danner said,
adding that "often a counle
have borne a defective child
before they come for genetic
counseling."
With genetic counseling, a
couple can find out the possibili-ty
of having a child with a birth
defect.
Even after a woman is
pregnant several tests can de-termine
whether the child will
be born defective.
Genetic counseling is avail-able
at the Birth Defects Center
of the Louisiana State Universi-ty
Medical School at Shreveport
which is under the direction of
Dr. Richard Juberg.
Object Description
| Title | Drug Effects on Unborn Discussed at Meet Hee |
| Creator | Martin, Margaret |
| Subject |
Danner, Dean, Jr. Medicines Health education Children |
| Date | ca. 1971 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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