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Article #127: Consumption of Wine is Safe in Pregnancy

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