How is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome diagnosed?

Answer 1

From Medicine Net:

"To establish a diagnosis of FAS, by convention, the following minimal criteria are met:

Small size and weight before and after birth (pre- and postnatal retardation).
Specific appearance of the head and face with at least 2 of the 3 following groups of signs; small head size (microcephaly), small eyes (microphthalmia) and/or short eye openings (palpebral fissures, and/or underdevelopment of the upper lip, indistinct groove between the lip and nose (the philtrum), and flattened cheekbones.
Brain involvement with evidence for delay in development, intellectual impairment, or neurologic abnormalities.
These criteria are used for the following reasons: (1) FAS can be difficult to diagnose at and after birth; (2) FAS can easily be confounded with many other disorders; (3) there is no one clinical feature that is a giveaway for FAS; and (4) there is no laboratory test to aid in the diagnosis."

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Answer 2

I was told years ago, that what ever is consumed in your body, up to a year before conception, the baby gets. FAS is diagnosed by the ammount of alcohol in the blood.