Vitamin C and Pregnancy - Help For Smoking Moms

For the women who cannot give up smoking during pregnancy, there is some relief. Vitamin C protects in some ways but not others. Read this article to find out how, and discover another benefit of vitamin C during pregnancy for all pregnant mothers, including non-smokers.
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anomynous Vitaman C may help but surely it still can't help that much compared to all the effects from what smoking can do. 2/4/2008
Dr. Rick Vitamin C supplimentation during pregnancy may or may not be beneficial. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, a collection of meta-analyses of scientific publications, reports that there is:

"Not enough evidence to determine if giving women vitamin C during pregnancy helps prevent babies dying, being born too soon or being born small.

Having a low intake of vitamin C may be associated with complications in pregnancy such as pre-eclampsia, anaemia and having a small baby. The review of trials found that there is not enough good evidence to say if supplementing women with vitamin C during pregnancy prevented the baby dying or being born small. Vitamin C supplementation was associated with a moderate increase in the risk of preterm birth, although further research is required. Vitamin C supplementation may help to prevent women developing pre-eclampsia during their pregnancy, although more research is needed."

Basing any healthcare decision on data from other species is akin to voodoo.

The good news is that the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews has also revealed that:

"There are effective strategies to help and support women to stop smoking that lead to fewer premature babies and better birthweights for babies."

Rather than self-prescribed vitamin C as an answer to smoking during pregnancy, women should ask their doctor for help with stopping.

 8/5/2007
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