More than half of pregnant women drink alcohol
Drink alcohol 58 percent of pregnant women in Germany. Even though they only occasionally do they endanger the health of the unborn child considerably. But many expectant mothers - regardless of their level of education - not aware of this, as a study of the Charité Berlin now has revealed.
ach year, 10 000 alkoholgeschädigte children born in Germany, of which 4 000 babies with the full picture of Fetalen alcohol syndrome (FAS), a severe physical or mental disability. FAS is the most common disability in newborns in Germany, it occurs twice as often as Down’s syndrome, but in comparison to 100 percent preventable.
The drug Federal Government, Sabine Bätzing, thus calls for avoiding alcohol during pregnancy: “There is no safe threshold for safe consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. The child is exposed to alcohol as well as the mother, has much more under the consumer to suffer Because the fetus alcohol only with a capacity of four percent compared to the mother degrades. ”
Symptoms of FAS range from slight physical and mental damage on subsequent behavior problems to a disability, the child never lead an independent life. Only about 20 percent of the FAS-affected children are later able to live independently. The remaining 80 percent is a whole lifetime to care instructed.