IVF and drinking not a good cocktail
Filed under: IVF — Alan @ 8:42 am
New research shows that the chances of successful IVF treatments is lower in women that consume even just a handful of glasses of white wine during a week.
Men who consume beer on a daily basis also reduce their chances of being able to father a child.
Even worse, couples in which both of the partners drink over six units per week; which is the same as splitting one bottle of wine between two people, reduces their chance of conceiving and carrying a child to full term birth by 26%.
The research comes from a study by the Boston, US Harvard Medical Study that asked 2.574 couples to report their regular drinking habits before they tried IVF treatments.
Out of the group surveyed, 34% of men and 56% of the women reported that they drink less than one drink a week while 5% of the men and 4% of the woman reported they had an alcoholic drink at least once every day.
The study leader, Dr. Brooke Rossi, said that the results of the study showed that couples in which both partners drank over six units of alcoholic a week had a much less likelihood of becoming pregnant. Six units are the same as two large glasses of wine or two pints of strong beer.
Men who drink this amount reduce their chances by 14% and women by 18%.
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