Causes and Symptoms of Clubfoot

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Clubfoot Health Article

According to Health Line, doctors are unsure of the cause of clubfoot but believe they might know some links that might be causing the deformity in infants. One cause they believe might be causing clubfoot is genetic inheritance. The only link to genetic inheritance is a Mendelian pattern of inheritance. Doctors believe several different types of inheritance patterns, different patterns of development appearing as the same condition and a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors may cause this.

Another link to clubfoot doctors believe might be that several environmental causes could cause clubfoot in a person. Some types of environmental causes might be linked to fumes; chemicals found in people’s water, sewer run offs etc.

Doctors also believe that certain drugs can cause clubfoot. Mothers who take the drug Misoprostol, which is a drug that mothers take when trying to have an abortion, have found their babies were being born with the deformity of clubfoot.

Doctors have also found that males who work as a living in the printing trade company have had more children born with clubfoot. Doctors believe that the printing trade somehow contaminates the men’s sperm but are unsure how.

Doctors have also found that prenatal tests have also caused babies to be born with clubfoot, but once again are unsure why.

Lastly, infants of mothers who smoke during pregnancy have a greater chance of being born with clubfoot than are offspring of women who do not smoke.

Since my mother smoked when she was pregnant with the two of us, since back then she didn't know cigarettes could damage peoples lungs and kill someone, that might have been the cause of my clubfoot deformity but we wre still unsure of the real reason.