He reasoned that doing so would encourage prevention, believing that if people knew maternal alcohol consumption caused the syndrome, then abstinence during pregnancy would follow from patient education and public awareness. At the time, nobody was aware of the full range of possible birth defects from FAS or its rate of prevalence. Over time, as subsequent research and clinical experience suggested that a range of effects (including physical, behavioral, and cognitive) could arise from prenatal alcohol exposure, the term Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) was developed to include FAS as well as other conditions resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure. Currently, FAS is the only expression of prenatal alcohol exposure defined by the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems and assigned ICD-9 and diagnoses. In fiction
In Aldous Huxleys 1932 novel Brave New World (where all fetuses are gestated in vitro in a factory), lower caste fetuses are created by receiving alcohol transfusions (Bokanovsky Process) to reduce intelligence and height, thus conditioning them for simple, menial tasks. Connections between alcohol and incubating embryos are made multiple times in the novel.The main character of the 2009 film Defendor is implied to have the condition.Tony Loneman, a character in Tommy Oranges novel There There, was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, which he calls "the Drome". See also
Alcohol and pregnancy
Smoking and pregnancy
Environmental toxicants and fetal development

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External links

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder at Curlie
Center for Disease Controls page on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)
Grocers itch is a cutaneous condition characterized by a pruritic dermatitis that occurs from coming into contact with mites such as Carpoglyphus passularum (a fruit mite) or Glycyphagus domesticus (a common house mite). Contact usually occurs when handling food with mites in it, such as figs, dates, prunes, grain, cheese, or other dried foods. : 454

See also
Grain itch
Gamasoidosis
List of mites associated with cutaneous reactions


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