Shots, shots, shots, shots — shoot. When was your last period? Your math may be a little off, but halfway through your night of drinking, you've realized you're late. Really late. Now that you're sweating and feeling just slightly soberer, you need to get to the drug store. But can you take a pregnancy test while drunk? Why is it that so many of life's greatest revelations happen after a bottle of wine? Rumor has it that Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea while he was swimming in rum. I know for a fact that the idea for the best cake I ever made came to me after entirely too many sidecar cocktails. So it's not surprising at all that you may in fact begin to think you're with child when you've been with Jim, Jack, and Jose. But can you take a pregnancy test while drunk? Will it affect the results? More importantly, how's your aim? Are you willing to bet on actually peeing on a stick that challenges women who are stone cold sober? Think about it. You'll already be nervous, and alcohol increases the effects of anxiety, which won't help the already shaky situation. Also, your reasoning is foggy right now. You may not be late. You might not be assessing things properly. Step back for a moment and ask yourself if you think waiting makes sense. But, if you absolutely must know, or you've already taken 16 tests and you're questioning the validity of the answer, rest assured that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services noted that alcohol does not affect the accuracy of the test. So if you've got a flashing "pregnant," on your stick of choice, that means you've got a bun in your oven, and you need to put down the Jägerbombs. You've also probably got a bathroom that looks like you allowed three potty-training boys in there after drinking a ton of Gatorade, so you might want to take care of that while you sober up. (It won't be the last time you clean up pee.) If you're worried about how your womb inhabitant is doing as you battle a hangover, try not to panic. According to Harvard, small amounts of alcohol in early pregnancy probably won't affect your health or your baby's health. But it might be time to start skipping the "shots, shots, shots" part of the evening. (Trust me, you'll be too exhausted anyway.) 
This is reported as one of the most common questions posed by the people who are in the phase of checking the pregnancy results. It is the curiosity or the anxiety for positive or negative results of pregnancy. Similarly, it is the most common myth or misconception that people have in their minds that a pregnancy test is affected by the consumption of drugs or alcohol. To know the facts of it, one has to understand the actual concept behind it. Pregnant women have a special hormone in their urine called the HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) and consumption of alcohol and its content in the blood stream has nothing to do with the pregnancy test. The hormone still produces irrespective of the fact that you may have consumed liquor. However, the consumption surely affects your baby in an adverse way. Though the alcohol consumption does not affect the results of a pregnancy test, many other factors do influence the investigation which may be misrepresented as a change due to alcohol consumption. Hence, it is necessary to understand the actual time taken to conceive after having intercourse and the time taken for your body to convey it to you when you try to investigate it with the help of a pregnancy test. As a sperm is live for 5 days once it enters your body, it is difficult to assess your precise conception date. The sperm might have entered and stayed in your body 5 days ago and may try to fertilize an egg today. An egg released today may unite with a sperm after a couple of days of sex as it can be live for 24 hours to 48 hours. However, egg fertilizing or conceiving is not just enough to get positive results in your pregnancy tests. It again takes some time to appear as the HCG is not produced as soon as you get pregnant and it is usually a week after the conception that it releases in the body. This is still not enough to turn the pregnancy test positive as the amount of HCG produced in the body is not enough to rule out your pregnancy as positive. The hormone usually multiplies its content in not less than 2-3 days and hence it is usually after 10 – 15 days after the conception that a pregnancy test can get you the actual result. The higher the time after an intercourse, more chances of the results being accurate in the test that you conduct for yourself. Since, the above information explains it all, we can now establish the fact that alcohol and drugs consumption does not affect the pregnancy test in any way but can cause fatal congenital diseases for your baby. A woman consuming alcohol or under drug abuse potentially increases the risk for her fetal baby. The addiction can jeopardize the growth of the baby’s cells. Impairments in brain and spinal cord may occur due to the damage done in pregnancy by consuming alcohol. Also, it is an established fact that a woman who quits the addictions even before she gets pregnant has more chances of having a healthy pregnancy and thereby having a healthy baby. Hence, the healthcare professionals always suggest getting de-addicted before one plans for a pregnancy.
by Kelsey Herbers Each week a woman consumes alcohol during the first five to 10 weeks of pregnancy is associated with an incremental 8% increase in risk of miscarriage, according to a study published this week by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers. The findings, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, examine the timing, amount and type of alcohol use during pregnancy and how these factors relate to miscarriage risk before 20 weeks’ gestation. Impact of alcohol use rises through the ninth week of pregnancy, and risk accrues regardless of whether a woman reported having fewer than one drink or more than four drinks each week. Risk is also independent of the type of alcohol consumed and whether the woman had episodes of binge drinking. Though most women change their alcohol use after a positive pregnancy test, consuming alcohol before recognizing a pregnancy is common among both those with a planned or unintended pregnancy. Half of the 5,353 women included in the analysis reported alcohol use around conception and during the first weeks of pregnancy. The median gestational age for stopping alcohol use was 29 days. Although 41% of women who changed their use did so within three days of a positive pregnancy test, those who stopped consumption near their missed period had a 37% greater risk of miscarriage compared to women who did not use alcohol. “Abstaining from alcohol around conception or during pregnancy has long been advised for many reasons, including preventing fetal alcohol syndrome. Nonetheless, modest levels of consumption are often seen as likely to be safe,” said Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD, vice president for Research Integration at VUMC and principal investigator for the Right from the Start cohort, from which participants were enrolled in the study. “For this reason, our findings are alarming. Levels of use that women, and some care providers, may believe are responsible are harmful, and no amount can be suggested as safe regarding pregnancy loss.” According to the researchers, one in six recognized pregnancies ends in miscarriage, which brings great emotional cost and leaves unanswered questions about why the miscarriage occurred. Biologically, little is known about how alcohol causes harm during early pregnancy, but it may increase miscarriage risk by modifying hormone patterns, altering the quality of implantation, increasing oxidative stress or impairing key pathways. Because alcohol use is most common in the first weeks — when the embryo develops most rapidly and lays down the pattern for organ development — understanding how timing relates to risk matters. Risk did not peak in patterns related to alcohol use in specific phases of embryonic development, and there was no evidence that a cumulative “dose” of alcohol contributed to level of risk. The study recruited women planning a pregnancy or in early pregnancy from eight metropolitan areas in Tennessee, North Carolina and Texas. Participants were interviewed during the first trimester about their alcohol use in a four-month window. “Combining the facts that the cohort is large, comes from diverse communities, captures data early in pregnancy and applies more advanced analytic techniques than prior studies, we’re confident we’ve raised important concerns,” said Alex Sundermann, MD, PhD, the study’s first author and recent graduate of the Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program. To avoid increased risk of miscarriage, the researchers emphasize the importance of using home pregnancy tests, which can reliably detect pregnancy before a missed period, and ceasing alcohol use when planning a pregnancy or when pregnancy is possible. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants HD043883, HD049675, HD094345, GM07347, TR000445 and TR002243) and the American Water Works Association Research Foundation. Follow-up is sustained by a VUMC internal fund. |
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