What are the causes of deformities in children?

Every mother wants to give birth to a healthy baby after ten months of pregnancy, but there are always mothers who do not pay attention during pregnancy and their babies are born with injuries, such as deformities. This will be a great blow to the parents and seriously affect the children's lives. If mothers want to avoid this situation, they should pay more attention during pregnancy and beware of factors that may cause fetal deformities. So what are the causes of child deformities?

It is generally believed that there are several reasons:

1. Genetic factors, inherited from parents, including various genetic diseases. Some are directly passed down from parents to children, which is called dominant inheritance. Sometimes the defects of the father or mother do not appear in the next generation, but only appear after several generations. This is called recessive inheritance, or inheritance from one generation to the next. Marriage between close relatives can greatly increase the incidence of genetic diseases and deformed children.

2. Environmental factors, including diet, living conditions, hobbies, illness, and contact with substances that can cause fetal malformations (referred to as teratogens), can all affect the development of the fetus. Especially in the early stages of pregnancy, that is, the first three months, the fetus develops extremely vigorously. It is the initial stage of development of major organs and is particularly sensitive to environmental factors. Many adverse stimuli can cause fetal malformations. 3. Eating moldy or aflatoxin-contaminated food, vegetables and fruits that have been sprayed with pesticides but not thoroughly washed, picky eating, nutritional deficiencies, etc. can all cause fetal deformities. According to research, many drugs are toxic to the fetus or can easily cause developmental deformities in the fetus.

4. During pregnancy, most of the medicines taken by the mother can act on the fetus through the placenta. For example, kanamycin, streptomycin, and quinine can easily cause congenital deafness in the fetus. Thyroxine and adrenal cortex hormones can cause cleft lip and palate. Tetracycline drugs can cause short fingers, toes, or limbs in the fetus. Aspirin and sex hormones can also cause fetal malformations. Therefore, pregnant women should try not to use or abuse drugs.

The above are the reasons for children's deformities. Mothers should avoid the above situations to reduce the occurrence of deformed children. You should pay more attention to it in your daily life, and go to the hospital for prenatal intrauterine diagnosis in the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy to determine whether there are any fetal malformations, and deal with them as soon as possible according to the situation.