Re: Prenatal Folic Acid helps autism prevention - Starsrocket -

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Yes, it has to be prescribed. The maximun dose they will put in over the counter

supplements is 800 mcg. My son is on 25mg. You would need to take a whole bottle

of over the counter stuff to get that daily...

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> > October 18, 2011jsnydersachsLeave a commentGo to comments

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> > A large Norwegian study provides strong evidence that women who take

prenatal vitamins containing folic acid, in the weeks before and after

conception, reduce the risk that a future child will develop severe language

delays†" defined as speaking one word or less at age 3. The study, published

Oct. 12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, comes on the heels

of a recent American study that found a significantly reduced risk of autism

among children born to mothers who took prenatal vitamins before conceiving.

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> > Ezra Susser, M.D., Dr.P.H., Autism Speaks Scientific Advisory Board member

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> > The senior author of the study was Ezra Susser, M.D., Dr.PH., professor of

psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public

Health and a member of Autism Speaks’ scientific advisory committee. The lead

author was Roth, M.Sc., Clin.Psy.D., of the Norwegian Institute of

Public Health.

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> > The investigators analyzed pregnancy questionnaires completed by nearly

109,000 pregnant women enrolled in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study

They compared the prevalence of severe language delay among 3-year-olds

according to whether or not their mothers took supplements containing folic acid

during the 4 weeks before and 8 weeks after conception. They found that a

mother’s use of folic acid during this crucial period reduced her child’s

risk of severe language delay from just under one percent (0.9%) to less than a

half percent (0.4%). Unlike the United States, Norway does not require folic

acid fortification of grain products.

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> > For years, physicians have encouraged women to take prenatal vitamins with

folic acid because its use during early pregnancy reduces the risk that a baby

will be born with neural tube defects, another disorder of brain development,

comments Dr. Susser. “It’s important not to make blanket recommendations

based on this one study,†he adds. “At the same time, we’re seeing

converging lines of evidence that the effect of folic acid deficiency may be a

real clue to the underlying biology that leads to autism and related problems in

language development.â€

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