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Infant Hair Sample Betrays Maternal Drinking During Pregnancy By Adam Marcus, HealthScoutNews WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthScoutNews) -- Testing infant hair could help doctors identify babies at risk for fetal alcohol syndrome because their mother drank during pregnancy. Physicians who suspect a pregnant woman was drinking or using drugs now look for signs of those substances in the early feces, or meconium, of her newborn. The new test can, in theory, pick up evidence of alcohol exposure for as long as three months after birth. Little can be done for a child exposed to excessive alcohol in the womb. But knowing a child might be vulnerable to fetal alcohol syndrome could be of value to child welfare and law enforcement officials who might want to take action against the mother...
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