Meconium helps detect intelligence problems in babies

Babies' meconiums may reveal a secret that is always hidden by her mother, whether or not the mothers drink alcohol during pregnancy, and the more important thing is that the born child will have mental problems. be smart when growing up due to abstinence from pregnant women.

New discoveries about infant stool

To draw this conclusion, experts rely on the amount of chemicals contained in meconium , specifically analyzing fatty acid ethyl ester (FAEE). If FAEE levels are high, doctors can warn parents about the risk that babies face at puberty, involving intelligence and reasoning ability.

For the first time, a study has been conducted to determine the relationship between pregnant women with alcohol and their intelligence - Photo: Shutterstock The first time a study identified the relationship of pregnant women with alcohol intelligence. baby - (Photo: Shutterstock)

If left untreated, these problems continue to persist and affect the intellectual capacity of children , according to a research team from the School of Social Sciences, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel (USA). 'FAEE can serve as a biological indicator that shows the alcoholic status in the womb and warns of problems related to the ability to develop cognitive abilities later in the subject ', according to the team leader, Ph.D. Meeyoung O.Min.

The study is part of an ongoing Newborn Project funded by the US National Institutes of Medicine to determine the level of impact on cognitive, social and physiological development. In children born to mothers who are addicted to drugs, alcohol and drug abuse during pregnancy.

Experts have observed nearly 400 children in 20 years since they were born in the mid-1990s. In the study, they analyzed the meconium of 216 newborns, then conducted intelligence tests. of the subjects at the time they were 9, 11 and 15 years old.

The results show that there is a link between the group with high FAEE content and low IQ score, according to the report published in the Journal of Pediatrics. This is also one of the first studies to assess the correlation between FAEE in meconium with cognitive development in childhood and puberty.