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Scientists Looking For a Solution For Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Scientists Looking For a Solution For Fetal Alcohol Syndrome San Diego State University is studying the effects of supplementing choline in drinking pregnant women.  They are hoping to ease the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.

Dr. Christina Chambers of the University of California, San Diego told the AP that there is now “heightened interest” in the search for treatments to combat the health impacts of a drinking mother. Chambers has begun clinical trials on pregnant women in Ukraine, where fetal alcohol syndrome is more common than in other regions of the world. Source

Doctors don’t know how much alcohol it takes to cause a problem for the baby, so they simply tell women not to drink while pregnant.  The CDC (Center for Disease Control) estimates that about 12 % of women indulge in some alcohol while pregnant, and as many as 2% binge drink while pregnant. It’s no secret that drinking while pregnant causes fetal alcohol syndrome, a preventable and severe defect that can easily have devastating results for the child.  The topic unfortunately gets murky at many of the various studies that all seem to contradict each other. Some say a glass of wine a day is fine, while others say so much as one  sip in 9 months will case damage to the fetus. The dichotomy seems to be cultural in that American women are told to not drink at all, while women in the UK are told that a very occasional drink is okay.  While Ukrainian women are an atypical case, that is also why (as the article says) they chose to do the study there.

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