For many years, researchers have known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can cause birth defects, but the potential effects of small amounts of alcohol on a developing baby are not well understood.
Pregnant women who drink alcohol
are at risk of giving birth to a child with fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder, these conditions vary from mild to severe and include delays
in speech and language, learning disabilities, and abnormal facial features small size of the head, among many other problems.
The fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are a group of birth defects that result from drinking alcohol
during pregnancy, and among them are growing more slowly than other
children, facial abnormalities, mental retardation and problems with the
central nervous system.
For the unborn child,
the alcohol interferes with his ability to get enough oxygen and
nutrients for normal cell development in the brain and other body
organs, as the developing fetus has very little tolerance for alcohol
and Babies born to mothers who consumed alcohol during pregnancy can
cause serious problems, as already mentioned.
You can also have adverse effects on children as growth deficit, which
has been shown to be related to other health problems, such as lower IQ,
and the effects of alcohol on growth are much more serious, if the
child has deficiency anemia iron.
If you are pregnant, it is best not to risk the future of your baby,
stop drinking immediately, and if you've tried to quit and can not give
it up so easily, the most convenient is that you ask for help and
support.
Addition.
if you are pregnant and you drink, your unborn baby is not the only
risk as women who drink have more health problems than men who drink the
same amount.
