Spina bifida

Spina bifida is known as a cleft spine which is an process as incomplete or the spine
:of the brain not developing completely. Early in the pregnancy problems can :occur where the edges of plate dont always fuse together properly therefore :causes brain disorder or neural tube defect which includes spina bifida.

Effects:
--The defects can cause malformation in bone or meninges
sometimes there no systems at all.

-but some people have incomplete paralysis and associated with bowel and urine dysfunction.

Types of spina bifida

There are about four kinds of spina bifida that can affect people, neural tube defect, myelomeningocele, occulta and meningocele.

Types of Spina Bifida

Meningocele can cause spinal fluid to protrude and cause abnormal vertebral opening this type contains no neural elements and mostly covered by a skin.

Types of Spina Bifida

Occulta is the simplest form but most common to have more them one vertebra to be malformed. The term occulta mean hidden determines the skin cover has a malformation or an open in the vertebrae.

Types
myelomeningocele the worst of all the defects occurs when the spine and neural element that are exposed which result in a complete or partial paralysis of the body below the spinal opening.

Effect of Spina Bifida

The neural tube defects consist of a variety of diverse group of defect that affects the spinal cord.

(The signs and symptoms)

~abnormal tuft of a clump of hair ~affected site of malformation. ~spinal which is filled with fluid ~ no feeling in the leg, feet or arm.

Resources to Contact:
Kennedy Krieger www.kennedykrieger.org March of dimes(www.modimes.org) Maryland State Department of Education www.mdod.maryland.gov/education

Final Thoughts
Ways to that may help prevent spinda bifida
Take folic acid during pregnancy Early detention Vitamin b

References
Retrieved from www.lifescript.com/health on February 2,2014
Teaching the Student with Spina Bifia, by Fern L. Rowley-Kelly,MSW.,Paul Brookes Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD 1993

www.medicinenet.com/spina_bifida on February 3,2014