OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence of FASD.
Females Who Drink
1 To 4 Drinks Per Occasion
1 To 4 Drinks Per Occasion
On the last blog when women were drinking 5+ drinks per occasion, there were some high numbers. That's why this table is amazing. The major changes seen in this blogs' chart shows that in the 4 or less drinks table, 2 age groups skyrocketed: the youngest and the oldest. How much? Look at these numbers.
Binge Drink 5+ Drinks Per Occasion
Under 15 Years Old: 16,747 = 2.8%
40 - 50 Years Old: 96,318 = 32.0%
34.8% = 113,065 binge drinkers out of 8,668,743
Total babies affected: 805
1-4 Drinks Per Occasion
Under 15 years old: 96,318 = 19.5%
40 - 50 years old: 2,524,569 = 56.2%
75.7% = 2,116,938 drinkers out of 8,668,743 pregnancies
Total babies affected: 4,428
That is an overall jump of 110% in the 40-50 age-range people having complete dominance over the youth. This is amazing: just in the, 1-4 drinks age groups alone, (youngest and oldest), we see that there are 4,428 fetuses affected compared to binge drinkers who affect 805 fetuses. Don't think that the binge drinkers are the worst ones. Even 1-4 drinks is highly dangerous to the fetus and will cause brain danage.
It makes sense that teenagers might stop at 4 drinks since their younger, smaller bodies get giddy quicker. Also, peer pressure and ignorance play a huge role.
In the older age category the "alcoholic" ones are completely used to 1-4 drinks and may still not feel that heavenly "glow." The casual drinkers may think they are simply drinking safe quantities. However, for some reason they somehow feel justified to take those drinks.
It is sad that these people are not thinking straight. I've said it in an earlier blog and I'll say it again: "If alcohol can kill every organ in the body, how is it possible that the fetus is completely unaffected." Well, as you know, the fetus is affected and I warn those little drinkers and those experienced drinkers that they are just being dumb. That's right - DUMB! Worse yet, the smallest drinker, the fetus, is innocent and losing brain cells, becoming worse than dumb; marginally brain damaged by the time they are born.
In the older age category the "alcoholic" ones are completely used to 1-4 drinks and may still not feel that heavenly "glow." The casual drinkers may think they are simply drinking safe quantities. However, for some reason they somehow feel justified to take those drinks.
It is sad that these people are not thinking straight. I've said it in an earlier blog and I'll say it again: "If alcohol can kill every organ in the body, how is it possible that the fetus is completely unaffected." Well, as you know, the fetus is affected and I warn those little drinkers and those experienced drinkers that they are just being dumb. That's right - DUMB! Worse yet, the smallest drinker, the fetus, is innocent and losing brain cells, becoming worse than dumb; marginally brain damaged by the time they are born.
Bruce Ritchie, the writer of this report explains:
Table 4 uses calculated results for “# females who drink 1 to 4 drinks per sitting”. It includes the categories “Never 5 or more drinks on one occasion” and “Drinking frequency, not stated” in the original Statistics Canada table population aged 12 and over who are current drinkers.
About 50% of pregnancies are unplanned. Most girls are 2 to 3 months pregnant before they find out. In some cases, it is much longer. The baby may have been swimming in alcohol at many parties before the pregnancy was known. If she stops drinking then, she will often assume no damage has been done, or she may worry throughout the pregnancy about the damage she may have already done. Some will continue to drink throughout the pregnancy.
“In Ontario, 83% of Grade 12 students drink, and 45% have had at least one episode of binge drinking in the previous 4 weeks, according to the 2003 Ontario Student Drug Use Survey. While the percentage of students binge drinking increases with each grade, the biggest single increase – from 8 to 24 percent – occurs between Grades 8 and 9.” A significant number of kids are starting very young.
“A 2003 survey of British Columbia high-school students conducted by the McCreary Centre Society found that 46 percent of males and 43% of females in high school who admitted to drinking had engaged in binge drinking in the previous month.”
“The Canadian Campus Survey in 2000 found that 63% of students reported consuming 5 or more drinks in a single sitting in the previous year.” These results compare to those included in the Centers for Disease Control CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the SAMSHA National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (U.S.A. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - http://www.samhsa.gov).
Meconium is the first bowel movement by a newborn infant.
Available since at least 2001, the meconium based assay incorporates a panel of Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters as bio-markers of maternal alcohol use during the last 20 weeks of pregnancy. Studies with the MecStat-EtOH assay (Avitar Technologies Inc., United States Drug Testing Laboratories) found fetal exposure to alcohol in 15-18% of newborns tested, approximately 4% of the newborns had elevated results.
Let the fetus do its job of becoming your baby.
No Booze. No Drugs. Being Real.
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