| As far as alcohol consumption is concerned, there is | | | | process needs to be carried out in a residential set up, |
| nothing like a safe level to stick to during pregnancy. In | | | | most suitably an alcohol treatment center |
| general, doctors believe consuming in excess of 12 | | | | , in close collaboration with an obstetrician. All those |
| units of alcohol on a regular basis have a significant | | | | pregnant women who are physically dependent on |
| effect on the fetus. The effects could be anything | | | | alcohol are always advised not to stop their habit of |
| from mental retardation to neurological deficiencies to | | | | drinking all of a sudden. After all, there is always the |
| behavioral problems or cretinism in the new born baby. | | | | additional threat of a significant adverse effect on the |
| Most alcohol treatment centersare aware of this | | | | life of the fetus. Differentiating the symptoms of |
| problem and have developed a multi-discplinary | | | | withdrawal from the symbols of pregnancy is a difficult |
| therapy routine to handle alcoholism during pregnancy. | | | | task. However, some of the most common symptoms |
| The most coherent biological treatment used to treat | | | | of alcohol withdrawal are fever and continuous |
| alcoholic pregnant mothers is detoxification. The | | | | tremors. |