Avoid Alcohol When Want Pregnant

Avoid Alcohol

Families who want tohave children should avoid consumption of alcoholic beverages. Not only the wife alone should be avoided, but also her husband. Because alcohol is consumed at the time of conception (the meeting of sperm and egg cells), will increase the risk for miscarriage.


Than 430 Danish couples, aged around 20-35 years, and plan to become pregnant for the first time. During the study, on 186 couples, pregnancy occurs, in which 55 pregnancies ended with spontaneous abortion and 131 of pregnancy is going well.

From these results, traced the cause of miscarriage happened. The result, women who consumed 10 or more alcoholic drinks per week at the moment of conception, the risk three times more likely to miscarry than those who did not consume alcohol.

Moderate men who consumed 10 or more alcoholic drinks per week during conception, then she would risk five times more likely to experience spontaneous abortion compared with a husband who did not consume alcohol.

The reason, presumably because alcohol causes the chromosomes in the sperm cells become abnormal. And there are many known cases of miscarriages due to chromosomal abnormalities. Previously also been known that alcohol consumption may cause some risk to the baby such as:
1. Birth defects
2. Babies born with low weight
3. Premature Birth

Experiments on animals also show an adverse result from alcohol consumption at conception. Male and female animals given large amounts of alcoholic beverages at around conception or in early pregnancy, increases the risk of fetal death. Who's in humans, does have the same results, not yet clear.

Source: American Journal of Epidemiology