Alcohol and pregnancy, danger or not?

Since 2004, bottles of alcohol sold in France are recorded and a pictogram warning against the use of alcohol to pregnant women.

What to think?

The recommendation "zero alcohol during pregnancy" should be the rule.

The alcohol you ingest is assimilated quickly in the digestive system. And since everything is treated in this way, it will have a first-pass metabolism, and several others, since it can not metabolize all at once. This will therefore circulate while waiting his turn, will take effect, and incidentally, be shared with the fetus.
In the liver, the alcohol will be supported by an enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenese.

A few things about it that will interest you:

- We have not provided all the same. Those who fail do not "take" not much alcohol, logic, since what is not metabolized continues to circulate.
- It acts in concert with a coenzime, NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), which occurs in all cellular oxidation processes. NAD busy dealing with alcohol, it neglects the fat, which will be stored rather than processed. Thus indirectly, alcohol promotes fat storage in places of predilection. We understand better the bellies of beer drinkers. The result is of little interest for our purposes. You just remember that alcohol circulates waiting to be metabolized, and it passes the placental barrier.

Once circulating in the fetal body, he will suffer the same metabolic liver than in the mother, except that the fetal enzyme material is much less developed than that of its mother. It follows that the alcohol level in fetal blood is much higher than that of its mother.

What effects on pregnancy?
- More miscarriages
- More premature births
What effects on the fetus?
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Stunting
- Deformities, heart, brain, lungs, urinary tract ...
- Mental retardation, hyperactivity syndrome fetal

You have the info: alcohol is strongly discouraged during pregnancy.
To the question, is it matter if I drench the lips with a glass of wine once a month, I would say no, but it's much simpler to say that unless you have this small tenant, better to put a cross on that.

To the question, is it serious if a few weeks after an evening watered, I realize that I'm pregnant, I would say no, but then report the ultrasound, and abstain in the future.