During pregnancy, sometimes there comes a time when suddenly you really want something that I loved before, but refused for the sake of the baby's health. Perhaps the most striking example of this is the keen desire to drink beer, especially if the weather is hot and so often thirsty.
Prudent women understand that alcohol can adversely affect the development of the baby and refuses beer. However, here begins to sharpen the worm of doubt - and whether it is possible for pregnant women to have nonalcoholic beer? After all, if you believe the phrase itself, there is no alcohol in this drink. Let's see if this is really so.
The fact is that the statement about the absence of alcohol in non-alcoholic beer is not entirely true. The share of alcohol in it is present, even the smallest - from 0,5 to 1,5%. But this is enough to dispel the myth of the safety of non-alcoholic beer. After all, even such a small percentage of alcohol, safe for an adult organism, can have a negative impact on the developing children's body.
What else is harmful to non-alcoholic pregnant women?
The harm of non-alcoholic beer during pregnancy is not limited to alcohol alone. The fact is that alcoholic and nonalcoholic beer is almost identical in composition. And in them both useful and harmful substances are equally contained. Moreover, in non-alcoholic beer, cobalt, a substance with a toxic effect, is used to stabilize the foam. Its content is almost 10 times higher than human norms. Cobalt causes inflammation in the stomach and esophagus, weakens the heart muscle. You can imagine how this substance acts on an unprotected baby. And this is just one of the ingredients of beer.
How to get non-alcoholic beer?
If you still have a desire to drink beer during pregnancy, listen to how it is possible to achieve its non-alcoholicity. For this, two main methods are used: suppression of fermentation and removal of alcohol from the final product.
Suppression of fermentation is achieved by the use of special yeast, fermentation of which does not emit ethyl alcohol. Another option is to stop fermentation at an early stage. The taste of this beer differs from the usual, because it contains a lot of sugar, not processed by yeast. Such a drink is not useful for the mother's organism, and the expected pleasure will not bring.
In the second case, when alcohol is removed from the final product, its evaporation takes place. This significantly worsens the taste of the drink, which is why you are unlikely to satisfy your desire to drink beer. But inflict undeniable harm to the body due to the above harmful substances.
And as for the claims that non-alcoholic beer has the same taste as ordinary beer, then here
It is highly not recommended to drink beer during pregnancy, if you have kidney problems or you suffer from swelling. Beer greatly exacerbates this kind of problem.
Even if you hear or read that "they drank beer during pregnancy, and everything ended well, a healthy child was born," you should not take it upon yourself unconditionally. In medicine, there are often cases in which drinking parents have quite healthy children, whereas in a healthy and caring mother there are cases of the birth of children with those or other abnormalities and pathologies.