what is squamous dystlasia?
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Did you mean squamous dysplasia?\n\nHere is a website that may explain what you are looking for.\n\nhttp://www.wdxcyber.com/mcervix.htm
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Mental retardation is the most common and serious birth defect associated with FAS.  Perhaps the most notable defects in FAS involve the face and eyes. In general, these defects are obvious and include facial bone hypoplasia (under-development), a long, underdeveloped philtrum (the groove in the middle of the upper lip), a thin upper lip, a short nose, and ptosis (drooping of the eyelids). Although the typical facial features may not be as apparent during the newborn period, they become more prominent as the infant develops. As these children grow into young adulthood, however, the facial abnormalities become more subtle and thereby contribute to the difficulty of recognizing FAS in older persons. With these physical abnormalities come sensory deficits that frequently involve vision, hearing and speech. Hyperacusis (abnormal acuteness of hearing) is common in infants, and approximately one third of these infants have a conductive hearing loss and another one-third have a sensorineural hearing loss. More than 90 percent of infants with FAS have delays in receptive and expressive language development.
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Dyslexia is an impairment in your brain's ability to translate written images received from your eyes into meaningful language. Also called specific reading disability, dyslexia is the most common learning disability in children.\n\nLearning disabilities affect about 5 percent of all school-age children in public schools in the United States. The majority of schoolchildren who receive special education services have deficits in reading, and dyslexia is the most common cause.\n\nDyslexia occurs in children with normal vision and normal intelligence. Children with dyslexia usually have normal speech, but often have difficulty interpreting spoken language and writing.\n\nTreatment for dyslexia may involve a multisensory education program. Emotional support of your child on your part also plays an important role.\n\nDyslexia can be difficult to recognize before your child enters school, but some early clues may indicate a problem. If your young child begins talking late, adds new words slowly and has difficulty rhyming, he or she may be at increased risk of dyslexia.\n\nOnce your child is in school, signs and symptoms of dyslexia may become more apparent, including:\n\nThe inability to recognize words and letters on a printed page \nA reading ability level well below the expected level for the age of your child \nChildren with dyslexia commonly have problems processing and understanding what they hear. They may have difficulty comprehending rapid instructions, following more than one command at a time or remembering the sequence of things. Reversals of letters (b for d) and a reversal of words (saw for was) are typical among children who have dyslexia. Reversals are common for children age 6 and younger who don't have dyslexia. But with dyslexia, the reversals persist.\n\nChildren with dyslexia may also try to read from right to left, may fail to see (and occasionally to hear) similarities and differences in letters and words, may not recognize the spacing that organizes letters into separate words. \n\nA learning disability is a condition that produces a gap between someone's ability and his or her performance. Most people with dyslexia are of average or above-average intelligence, but read at levels significantly lower than expected. Other types of learning disabilities include attention difficulties, an inability to perform well at writing skills, and an inability to perform well at math skills\nsound out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word.
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Symptoms \n\nIndividuals with Down Syndrom may not experience all of the symtoms. Some of the common symptoms are: decreased muscle tone at birth, asymmetrical or odd-shaped skull, round head with flat area at the back of the head, small skull, slanting eyes, small mouth with protruding tongue (see tongue problems), broad short hands, single crease on the palm, retarded growth and development, delayed mental and social skills (mental retardation)\n\nWhat are the physical Characteristics?\n\nChildren with Down Syndrome have a widely recognized characteristic appearance. Their head may be smaller than normal (microcephaly) and abnormally shaped. Other prominent characteristics are: a flattened nose, protruding tongue, upward slanting eyes, short hands and fingers, and a single crease in the palm.
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SED (Spondylo-Epiphyseal Dysplasia) is a rare collagen disorder that involves the vertebrae and the proximal ends of long bones.  The result is a form of short-trunk dwarfism.\n\nThere are 2 types of SED.\n\n1. SED congenita which can be seen at birth, is an Autosomal Dominant trait mapped to a gene on chromosome 12.\n\n2. SED tarda results in a normal appearance at birth and development of signs later on in life.  It is most commonly an X-linked recessive trait.\n\nSED congenita and tarda are non-lethal forms, and the tarda variant is generally milder than congenita.  They are associated with advanced maternal age at conception.  Some cases of SED congenita are also associated with retinal abnormalities and hearing problems.\n\nPlease read more on the website below.
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Mmmmmm I guess "Spina bifida" is defined as any abnormal development of the bones of the spine that display a typical pattern, with or without the involvement of the brain, nerves or covering of the nerves (meninges). It is the most common congenital spine abnormality. Some have described this process as a failure of these bones to fuse during early fetal development.
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Systamic Cislarsise does not exist in any medical database that I know.\n\nDo you mean:\n\nSystemic sclerosis (systemic scleroderma)\n\nSystemic sclerosis (systemic scleroderma) is a multisystem disease that results in fibrosis and vascular abnormalities in association with autoimmune changes. These lead to breakdown of the skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscles and internal organs (e.g. digestive tract, heart, lungs and kidneys). The skin becomes thickened and tightly bound to underlying structures.\n\n\n\n\nScleroderma\n\nScleroderma is a disease that causes thickened skin and varying degrees of organ dysfunction resulting from small-vessel vasculopathy and immune-mediated fibrosis. The clinical manifestations of this disease are extremely heterogeneous and depend on the presence and degree of internal organ involvement. Patients may present with a spectrum of illness ranging from localized skin fibrosis only (localized scleroderma) to a systemic disorder (systemic scleroderma) with both cutaneous and internal organ involvement.\n\n\nor\n\n\nYeast infections -- sometimes called candidiasis -- takes many forms. They often develop where a moist environment encourages fungal growth, especially on the webs of fingers and toes, nails, genitals and folds of skin.  Types include:\n\n    *\n      Oral thrush is a painless, often recurrent yeast infection of the mouth and throat.  It is common in babies, young children and the elderly, but can affect all ages.\n    *\n      Moniliasis is a painful vaginal yeast infection experienced by approximately 75% of women, most commonly during pregnancy or treatment with antibiotics.\n    *\n      Balanitis is a less common but equally irritating infection of the penis. \n    *\n      Intertrigo can occur on the skin, particularly in large skin folds in obese people.\n    *\n      Systemic yeast infections can occur in cases of diabetes, AIDS, and other ailments or drug treatments that suppress the immune system.
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Could you mean Stein-Levinthal syndrome, or Polycystic Ovary Disease?
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dyplasia is an abnormal development of the head of the femur.  Usually, children are born with this condition.  You must be seeing an orthopedic MD.  I don't have it but one of my sons did.  He walked with an unnormal gait and had pain a lot of the time.  When your bones mature, hopefully surgery can correct it, but I'm not sure.  My son never had the chance to find out.  Good luck.
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According to WebMD, Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is a rare congenital disorder characterized by pancreatic insufficiency, bone marrow dysfunction, and short stature. \n\nLots of info at sites listed below.  Hope that helps!
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If you are talking about hirsuties papillaris genitalis (Pearly Penile Papules). PPP is a clinical skin condition of the male genital organs. Medical studies found that 48 percent of 200 men attending a department of genitourinary medicine had the condition. Various other studies have shown that the number may be in the interval between 8% and 48% varying with region and whether the subjects are circumcised or not, as papules appear more frequently on uncircumcised penes...\n...and yes I do have it.
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It's actually a genetic syndrome.  There are certain phyical features associated with it (increased hairiness, short neck and stature are the ones I can think of without looking).  Check out WebMD (www.webmd.com) for more answers, and definitely talk to your doctor.  I know someone who was undiagnosed until she had a seizure.
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nesidioblastosis \nNesidioblastosis is a controversial medical term for hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia attributed to an abnormal microscopic appearance of pancreatic islet development. The term was coined in the first half of the 20th century. The abnormal histologic aspects of the tissue included the presence of islet cell enlargement, islet cell dysplasia, beta cells budding from ductal epithelium, and islets in apposition to ducts.\n\nBy the 1970s, nesidioblastosis was primarily used to describe the pancreatic dysfunction associated with persistent congenital hyperinsulinism and in most cases from the 1970s until the 1970s, it was used as a synonym for what we now refer to as congenital hyperinsulinism.\n\nThe term fell into disfavor after it was recognized in the late 1980s that the characteristic tissue features were sometimes seen in pancreatic tissue from normal infants and even adults, and is not consistently associated with hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia. Most congenital hyperinsulinism is caused by different mechanisms than excessive proliferation of beta cells in a fetal pattern.\n\nA small number of case reports have purported to describe nesidioblastosis in adults
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Hope this link helps you and the little guy. Seems to have alot of helpful information.\n\nhttp://emedicine.com/derm/topic686.htm
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Munchenhausen syndrome.
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The most common form is Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This form is caused by mutations of the gene for the dystrophin protein. The dystrophin is the second largest gene in mammals.\n\nThe dystrophin gene is located on the X chromosome, thus making it a 'sex-linked' disorder. Accordingly, muscular dystrophies are much more common in males, as females have two copies of the X chromosome while males have only one.\n\nDuchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by an X-linked gene. This means that only boys are affected but that their mothers may be carriers. In almost half of all affected boys, the faulty gene has arisen by mutation in the boy himself and no other family member carries it. However, this may be difficult to prove and can be decided only after careful and expert assessment of the family.\n\nIn the remaining cases (somewhat over half of all cases), the mother carries the gene but is usually not herself affected by it. Such women are known as ‘carriers’. Each subsequent son of a carrier has a 50:50 chance of being affected and each daughter has a 50:50 chance of being a carrier herself. A small number of female carriers of the gene have a mild degree of muscle weakness themselves and are then known as ‘manifesting carriers’.\n\nOne of the most important things that needs to be done soon after the diagnosis of a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy is to seek genetic advice and appropriate tests for those family members who are at risk of being carriers.\n\nFemale carriers of muscular dystrophy who are considering having children should be aware that prenatal diagnosis is available. Tests can be carried out during pregnancy, to try to find out if the fetus (unborn child) is affected.\n\nA couple may want to consider whether or not to continue the pregnancy if the fetus is affected. Alternatively, they may wish to know if the fetus is affected so that they can carry on with the pregnancy armed with knowledge that will help them to prepare and plan for the future.\n\nDifferent types of prenatal tests can be carried out after about 10 weeks of pregnancy. Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) can be done at 10-12 weeks, and amniocentesis at about 14-16 weeks, while placental biopsy and fetal blood sampling can be done at about 18 weeks. \n\nAbout 100 boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy are born in the UK each year. There are about 1,500 known boys with the disorder living in the UK at any one time. For the general population the risk of having an affected child is about one in every 3,500 male births.\n\nThe most frequent symptoms are muscle weakness (frequent falls, walking problems, drooping eyelid) and skeletal and muscle deformities. Neurologic examination often reveals loss of muscle tissue (wasting), muscle contracture, pseudohypertrophy, and weakness. Diagnosis is usually established by muscle biopsy, elevated serum creatine kinase levels and electromyography, which is consistent with myogenic involvement. Some types of muscular dystrophies may result with additional cardiac diseases, intellectual deterioration and infertility.
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Background: Lichen sclerosus (LS) is a chronic inflammatory dermatosis that results in white plaques with epidermal atrophy. LS has both genital and extragenital presentations. It is reported under a variety of other appellations such as lichen sclerosus et atrophicus (dermatological literature), balanitis xerotica obliterans (glans penis presentation), and kraurosis vulvae (older description of vulvar presentation). An increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma may exist in vulvar disease, but the precise increase in risk and what cofactors (human papilloma virus infection or prior radiotherapy) may be involved are not yet completely defined. In large series, genital presentations, both vulvar and penile, outnumber extragenital reports by more than 5:1.