Alcohol Disturb Baby Sperm

KOMPAS.com - Does alcohol affect the health of baby? Of course. In addition to lowering of intelligence, boys born to mothers who still consume alcohol during pregnancy are also threatened impaired fertility.

In a study of 350 male infants are known, sperm concentration infants whose mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy is lower than a third of pregnant women with alcohol-free. Levels of pregnant women consumed alcohol in this study is more than four drinks per week.

Danish researchers from conducting this research, said the boy was likely to be more difficult for knocked up.

Other studies on the effects of alcohol on male infants also showed similar results. When compared, boys whose mothers drank more than four alcoholic drinks per week, their sperm levels 32 percent lower than the children of the group without alcohol.

World Health Organization (WHO) states that normal sperm concentration is 20-40 million per millimeter. Low sperm count, even at a normal level, will complicate the process of fertilization.

So far there is no agreement among experts about the safe amount of alcohol consumed by pregnant women. Some claimed when drunk occasionally, are safe. However, the American Association of Physician Gynecology emphatically states, pregnant women are prohibited from drinking alcohol even though a drop.