Children are born drunk
To this conclusion came the doctors of the USA and Mexico.
A child emerges from the womb of the mother, and the room where the delivery takes place is filled with the smell of. .. alcohol. The doctors look at each other in confusion. No, they are not on duty to come to drink even a sip of beer. A woman in childbirth? Excluded. Newborn? A few minutes later embarrassed doctors are forced to admit that the smell of fumes comes from the child.
This scene, described by a correspondent of the local newspaper Excelsior, is a sad reality. Of every thousand Mexican newborns, 25 have the so-called embryonic alcohol syndrome( ZAS).Here, like in our country, there is, unfortunately, the opinion that a glass of wine can not cause a pregnant woman any harm.
A similar point of view, according to the American expert Kenneth Lyons Jones, is a fatal mistake. Being one of the pioneers in research on the ZAS problem, he came to the conclusion that even one glass of alcoholic drink, drunk by the mother, can cause this syndrome in a newborn.
About how dangerous he is, says Mexican psychiatrist Salvador Ganzales: "ZAS is a serious problem, which we have been avoiding in our country so far. It is ZAS who is the culprit in 32 out of 100 cases associated with significant mental retardation of children under the age of five. The consequences of this lag may affect life. "
The mechanism of occurrence of ZAS is simple. Any amount of alcohol consumed by a woman during pregnancy falls on the blood vessels in the fetus and immediately leads him into a state of intoxication."Would it occur to you," doctors ask future mothers, "to pour wine or brandy into the nipple and give it to your newborn?"So why are you giving him such a nipple before birth? After all, the effect is absolutely the same. "In this case, it is not only about pregnant women, but also about nursing mothers. According to experts, it is necessary to resolutely fight the myths rooted in the minds of people, such that "from the consumption of beer, the mother will have more milk."
In Mexico, in recent years, the addiction to alcohol on the part of the "weaker sex" is growing. According to the local institute of psychiatry, only a quarter of the female population avoids it. In this case, women, as a rule, drink secretly, which makes it difficult for them to get rid of vice.
The situation is no better in the US itself, where the number of children with ZAS is growing uncontrollably. The situation, according to experts, can be corrected if properly educated, preventive work is done properly. While it is about the enactment in the United States of a federal law that will require that the advertisement of all alcoholic beverages contain a special warning about what harm they can do to future mothers.