Alcohol during pregnancy: Named the most dangerous period

Scientists have identified the most dangerous period of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. In the period between the seventh and 12th weeks of pregnancy greatly increases the risk of development of the unborn child of fetal alcohol syndrome.

Medicine has long warned mothers that alcohol during pregnancy unacceptable as smoking. Fetal alcohol syndrome   - One of the risk factors for passion alcohol during pregnancy . But a group of scientists from the University of California found that particularly strong risk of developing the syndrome rises in the period from the seventh to 12 th week.

American scientists have observed for more than a thousand pregnant for more than three decades. It was found that the consumption of alcoholic beverages during the second half of the first trimester is associated with an increase in the deficit of height and weight baby, along with the formation of facial deformities. All this is a sign of development fetal alcohol syndrome .

For every additional daily dose of alcohol, which is regularly drink pregnant, the risk of deformation increases. The threat of cleft lip increases by 25% the risk of cranial deformation by 12%, the risk of underweight at birth by 16%. Meanwhile, all these strains and defects associated with the syndrome are quite preventable. These include problems with learning and attention of the child, defects of vision and hearing, epilepsy, skeletal deformities.

The study's authors once again remind expectant mothers: there is no such thing as a "safe level of consumption alcohol " during pregnancy . And the beginning of the time when the unborn child will show signs of birth defects varies from woman to woman.

Pregnancy and Gynecology

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