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Botox Before Birth Saves Baby's Intestines | Texas News
Doctors are injecting Botox into fetuses to treat complex gastroschisis—a life-threatening condition where intestines protrude through a hole in the abdomen—by temporarily paralyzing abdominal muscles to prevent damage. Used for the first time in the U.S. on 11-month-old Noel Price, this groundbreaking prenatal procedure gave her a fighting chance against a grim prognosis: early delivery as a micropreemie or lifelong feeding tubes. After a tense, breath-holding injection at 25 weeks, initial scans showed no change—but within days, blood flow improved and swelling receded. Born at 34 weeks…
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