Drinking Whilst Pregnant
Drinking one or two units of alcohol a week during pregnancy does not raise the risk of developmental problems in the child, a study has suggested. Official advice remains that women abstain completely during pregnancy. A study of more than 11,000 five-year-olds published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found no evidence of harm.
A survey of 3000 people, by leading healthcare cash plan provider Medicash, has revealed that 17% of workers in small businesses feel so tense that they need a beer or a glass of wine to de-stress at the end of the day compared with only 8% of those in cosy corporate roles.
The study, led by University College London but involving three other UK universities, is the second by this group examining large numbers of children looking for signs that brain development had been affected.
The first had found no evidence of problems at age three, but the latest study extended the checks until school age to make sure nothing had emerged later. The same result appeared, with no extra risk of behavioural and emotional issues compared with children whose mothers had abstained during pregnancy.
Sue Weir, chief executive at Medicash, said: 'Smaller businesses often don't have the time or resource to devote to employee wellbeing initiatives and yet sustained levels of stress in a workforce can lead to long term sickness which is good for neither employer nor employee.
Encouraging employees to take a preventative approach to their own health by putting initiatives in place to help them manage their stress levels is proven to have a positive effect on a company's bottom line.'
Small business workers are more likely to claim that they have been bullied at work, while work worries cause sleepless nights for many with one in five claiming that they have trouble sleeping at least one night every week.
More than half those surveyed said that they had been driven to tears at work and twelve percent had even gone as far as quitting a job when the stress became too much to handle. Perhaps most worrying is the fact that almost a third of workers say that they bottle up their feelings because they don't want people to see that they are under pressure.
But Dr Tony Falconer, the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said that while the "safest choice" was abstinence, the current evidence suggested that drinking one or two units, once or twice a week was acceptable. "The key public health message, whether or not a woman is pregnant, is that light drinking is fine, but heavy and binge drinking should be avoided." BBC News
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