| Consumption of Wine is Safe in Pregnancy | | | | or even with the lesser Fetal Alcohol Effects |
| 15th May 2006 | | | | (FAE), can have serious handicaps and therefore |
| Author: Alison White | | | | could require a lifetime of special care. There is |
| There have been many articles written about the | | | | even some research that indicates that women |
| consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. And | | | | who plan to get pregnant should stop drinking |
| there have many debates and researches that | | | | before they even conceive. |
| referred to this issue. | | | | The debate raised by the Department of Health is |
| Some experts say moderate drinking during | | | | about how much is "too much" because until now |
| pregnancy is okay, but there are others who | | | | it was said that the only safe limit is no alcohol at |
| believe taking even one drink is like very | | | | all. The Department of Health said that pregnant |
| dangerous for the baby's health. | | | | women and those hoping to conceive can safely |
| The thing that is not debatable is that whatever | | | | drink up to two glasses of wine a week without |
| women eat or drink while pregnant goes directly | | | | harming the foetus. |
| through your bloodstream into the placenta so | | | | Dr Raja Mukherjee, an expert on the disorder |
| literally if a pregnant woman takes a drink -- a | | | | who works at St George's hospital medical school |
| glass of wine, a beer or a cocktail -- the unborn | | | | in Tooting, London, called for pregnant women to |
| child takes the same. | | | | cut out alcohol completely, and said the UK's binge |
| For the unborn child, the alcohol interferes with his | | | | drinking habits were of particular concern: "There |
| ability to get enough oxygen and nourishment for | | | | is an increasing literature of evidence, however, to |
| normal cell development in the brain and other | | | | suggest that binge drinking as well as low doses |
| body organs. Research has shown that a | | | | of alcohol can cause damage." |
| developing foetus has very little tolerance for | | | | The Department of Health said the research cited |
| alcohol and infants born to mothers who drink | | | | at the conference had been reviewed in March as |
| during pregnancy can have serious problems. Fetal | | | | part of the government's alcohol harm reduction |
| Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of mental | | | | strategy, and that the two units a week limit was |
| and physical defects which develops in some | | | | considered to be safe. |
| unborn babies when the mother drinks "too much" | | | | Visit Vintage Roots at , for organic wines. |
| alcohol during pregnancy. A baby born with FAS, | | | | |