Drinking Alcohol During Pregnancy, Women in UK and Italy are on Top

Drinking in pregnancy is not considered to be good for the health of the child. But most mothers do not refrain. In this case women of Italy and Britain are ahead in Europe. Five percent of Italy and four percent of women in Britain admitted in research that , they used to drink alcohol once or twice a week during the pregnancy.

This survey included nearly eight thousand women from 11 countries in Europe. During this it was discovered that women who consume alcohol once or twice a week during pregnancy, 0.1 percent in Sweden, 0.2 percent in Norway and 0.5 percent in France. As far as it is a matter of one or two drinks during the entire period of pregnancy, there are more than 25 per cent of such women in Britain and Russia. At the same time,, women drinking alcohol at least once during the pregnancy was 18%.

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Angella Lupatelli, a scientist from Oslo University, who was involved in this study team, said, “Roughly speaking, one woman out of six women talked of consuming alcohol during pregnancy.” It is clear from the study that most women in Norway, Sweden and Poland stay away from alcohol during pregnancy. In Russia, 26 percent of women believed that they drank alcohol during pregnancy, but 70 percent of these women consumed it only once or twice. In this study, a drink of beer, a glass of wine or a drink of highly alcoholic beverages is considered as a drink.

It has been said in the study that the practice of consumption of alcohol during pregnancy should be a reason of concern for health officials. “Seeing Italy’s figures, there is a need to create special campaigns and policies,” says Lupateli, so that it can be told how dangerous alcohol consumption is during pregnancy. ” Many researches have proved that alcohol intake during pregnancy can have an effect on the child, which it keeps paying for life.

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