Trying to get pregnant? Better watch your caffeine intake
If you are you trying to conceive, you might want to bring down your caffeine intake. Couples who have two or more caffeinated drinks daily during weeks leading to conception, run a high risk of miscarriage, warns a recent study.
If you are you trying to conceive, you might want to bring down your caffeine intake. Couples who have two or more caffeinated drinks daily during weeks leading to conception, run a high risk of miscarriage, warns a recent study.
According to researchers, women who drink more than two caffeinated drinks daily during the first seven weeks of pregnancy are more likely to miscarry.
However, the study also found that the women who took a daily multivitamin dose before conception and through early pregnancy were less likely to miscarry than women who did not.
Read: Five deadliest infections for pregnant women
“Our findings provide useful information for couples who are planning a pregnancy and who would like to minimize their risk for early pregnancy loss,” said study’s first author Germaine Buck Louis from the National Institute of Health in the US.
The study, published online in the journal Fertility and Sterility, enrolled 501 couples.
They compared lifestyle factors like cigarette use, caffeinated beverage consumption and multivitamin use among 344 couples with a singleton pregnancy from the weeks before they conceived through the seventh week of pregnancy.
The results showed that of the 344 pregnancies, 98 ended in miscarriage.
Both male and female consumption of more than two caffeinated beverages a day was also associated with an increased hazard ratio.
For the preconception period for females of 35 years of age or above the miscarriage risk was nearly twice than that for younger women.
Read: Drinking during pregnancy may get even your grandkid addicted
“Our findings also indicate that the male partner matters, too,” Buck Louis said.
“Male preconception consumption of caffeinated beverages was just as strongly associated with pregnancy loss as females’.”
Interestingly, the researchers saw a reduction in miscarriage risk for women who took a multivitamin daily.
Taking multivitamins during the preconception period, reduced the pregnancy loss by 55% and women who continued to take the vitamins through early pregnancy had a risk reduction of 79%.
Follow @htlifeandstyle for more.
