Keep that bottle away now or you may affect your child! Alcohol consumption during pregnancy may affect the unborn child, and may also augment the chances of the children of the next three generations, become victims of alcoholism, says a study that was carried out on rats.![3186E74C00000578-0-image-a-32_1456350882172]()
Researchers are claiming that alcohol taken by pregnant mothers may affect future generations to come. According to details of the study, children of the next three generations may develop alcoholism, and researchers have based this presumption on a study they conducted on rats. Pregnant rats that were in 17-20 of their gestational days, i.e. human being’s second trimester, were administered wine corresponding to one glass, for four continuous days.
According to Nicole Cameron from Binghamton University in the US, “Our findings show that in rats, when a mother consumes the equivalent of one glass of wine four times during the pregnancy, her offspring and grand-offspring — up to the third generation — show increased alcohol preference and less sensitivity to alcohol.”The team was focused at investigating alcohol consumption affects during pregnancy and the following generations who were not exposed to exposure to alcohol during pregnancy. They checked the offspring for their alcohol related behavior to make deductions from their study.
Researchers checked the infantile female and male offspring mice for water or alcohol consumption. The adolescent males were administered a high dose of alcohol to check out their sensitivity levels. This high alcohol dose made the mice unresponsive and the researchers studied the time taken for them to return to normalcy.
The results have been published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research and they say that a pregnant mother if she takes a little alcohol during pregnancy exposes her child to alcoholism.
