Alcohol is harmful even in small amounts during pregnancy

The consumption of alcohol in women during the first trimester of pregnancy increases the risk for a child with birth defects such as cleft lip and cleft palate (cleft lip and cleft palate), U.S. researchers reported. Some evidence that alcohol consumption increases the risk of a pregnant woman, a child with this disease are well known. But these data are difficult to organize, as they have already taken a variety of drinks at different doses. Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham, North Carolina (USA), a special study of this dependence. Experts examined the questionnaire 377 mothers of children with disabilities seam lip 176 - with nonunion of the sky and 763 - healthy children. Mother answered the question about the use of alcohol during the first 3 months of pregnancy. Found that women who ate more than 5 servings of alcohol at least once in three months, doubled the risk of diseases cleft palate or lip of the unborn child. In the use of such an amount of alcohol of three or more times to increase the risk of three. In summary, the researchers found that the risk of alcohol consumption, even in minute quantities pregnant woman carries a high risk of birth defects of the baby. They are strong for pregnant women to no alcohol at the time, and especially in the first 3 months, when all the organs of the fetus are formed recommended.