50-60 CHILDREN BORN WITH SNOUT OF WOLF AND LIP OF RABBIT ANNUALLY

Annually 50-60 children are born with the illness of rabbit lip and wolf snout in the republic, department head of Yerevan state medical university, Gagik Kocharyan told Panorama.am. In his words, 40-50 children with such defects are operated annually in the republic. The illness is transmitted mainly genetically. Besides, genetic transmission (70 percent), the illness may be caused by some kind of disease in the first 2-3 months of pregnancy. ''During this time of pregnancy, the facial section of the child is formed, for example, a child may be born with problems due to serious flue of a woman,'' he said.

Children born with a rabbit lip and wolf snout may undergo operation starting from 3-4 month old. Specialists say when a child is 6 and more kgs, they may be operated. In case for any reason the operation is done after the child is 7 years old, the operation will be of plastic nature. In case of such diseases, children may have problems of eating and drinking as well as other movements.