Patient's question:
Three months pregnant, I've become particularly neurotic. Just while reading about children with neural tube defects, things felt even more off. Can such children be remedied?Doctor's answer:
This is a deformity caused by congenital developmental abnormalities, which is relatively severe. The neural tube is the central nervous system of the fetus, which begins to develop on the 15th to 17th day of embryonic development. Around the 22nd day of embryonic development, the two sides of the neural wings begin to converge and form a tube, known as the neural tube. The front end of the neural tube is called the anterior neuropore, and the rear end is called the posterior neuropore. The incidence rate of this disease in China is 2.74 per thousand, and it is higher in the northern regions compared to the southern regions, higher in rural areas compared to urban areas, and higher in children born in autumn and winter compared to those born in spring and summer. Once this condition occurs, pregnancy should be terminated as soon as possible, as there is no corrective method available to remedy it.