A new report finds that zinc supplements may help mothers-to-be reduce the risk of birth defects linked to alcohol use early in pregnancy.
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Alcohol’s damage to an unborn child depends not only on the amount and duration of alcohol exposure, but also on the timing of the exposure relative to the development of the cells and tissues involved.
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The study confirmed the importance of metallothionein, a zinc-building protein, in alcohol-mediated birth defects.
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These findings don’t mean that taking zinc makes it safe for women to drink during pregnancy, however, because the study did not determine whether zinc protects against all of the possible negative outcomes from alcohol exposure in pregnancy. The studies indicate dietary zinc supplementation could be as important as folic acid and applied as a simple prophylactic treatment in the human setting to prevent the effects of a range of insults in pregnancy.
Pregnant women should not drink, of course. Drinking can lead to several different kinds of birth defects.
