Pretty and Healthy Life

U.S. researchers make sure they have strong evidence to indicate that caffeine is harmful to pregnancy. The pregnant women who consume large amounts of caffeine each day in the early months of pregnancy are at risk of miscarriage.

For secure, the future moms should avoid beverages containing caffeine during the first five months of pregnancy, the researchers revealed in research reports published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Actually, this issue has been studied previously, revealed that pregnant women who ate three cups of coffee or 300 mg of caffeine per day had the increasing risk of miscarriage than pregnant women who avoided caffeine.

However, many people criticized that the findings are less accurate, because many women with healthy pregnancies who avoid coffee or caffeine because of morning sickness in the morning.

To find out the actual facts, researchers, assisted by a health care organization, Kaiser Permanente, studied more than 1,000 pregnant mothers. All of these subjects kept continuing their habit of consuming coffee or other caffeinated beverages, in the same portion as they used to drink before pregnancy.

The result is very clear. The researchers found the risk of miscarriage is increased with the increasing number of daily caffeine consumption, whether from coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and other caffeinated drinks, or a combination of all.

Mothers who consumed 200 mg caffeine or more per day had twice the risk of miscarriage greater than those who avoid it at all.

For the purposes of this research, 200 mg of caffeine is equivalent to two of 7.5 oz sized cups of coffee or five of sized 12 oz cans of caffeinated soda per day.

"The future mother should avoid caffeine at least three or four months of their pregnancy", says De-Kun Li, epidemiologist and the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California.

"If they have to consume caffeine, limit the consumption, at least one cup per day, or switch to decaf."

Li noted that this study does not tell how much caffeine is safe for future mothers. So, he supported pregnant women to take the safety way, considering this is one of the numerous causal factors of miscarriage.

The experts believe that caffeine can interfere with the fetus because the substance can penetrate the placenta, but it can not be digested easily by the system of metabolism in embryo.

Caffeine can also make blood vessels constrict, which eventually causes the blood flow to the placenta decreased.

1.063 of pregnant women were involved in the study that took place between October 1996 to October 1998. Guess it's time to kiss goodbye your coffee cup, at least for a while!