Can pregnant women drink non-alcoholic beer - short and sweet

Non-alcoholic beer during pregnancy and its planning

Let's start with the fact that beer is not actually completely non-alcoholic. In fact, the drink contains a small dose of ethanol: from 0.02 to 0.5, less often - 1%.

At the same time, this effect is achieved at the cost of deteriorating the taste of the final product, which, as a rule, has very little in common with full-fledged beer, but there are pleasant exceptions.

Accordingly, a number of chemicals are used both to achieve the effect itself and to return the drink to beer-like taste, along with artificial flavors and flavorings (if you don't believe me, read the list of ingredients in small letters on the can)...

As you can imagine, the impact of the know-how of the modern chemical industry on the body of a pregnant woman and her unborn child is virtually unpredictable. Moreover, even the most cynical producers of conditionally de-alcoholized drinks do not dare to test their products on representatives of this target audience.

Given the foreignness of these chemical components, it is highly likely that the expectant mother will develop allergic pathologies, especially dangerous in the first 13 weeks of fetal development.

Thus, non-alcoholic beer not only does not protect the body from receiving an additional dose of ethyl alcohol, but is also potentially dangerous during early pregnancy. The latter circumstance automatically excludes the possibility of drinking this drink during pregnancy planning.

Over time, the risk of negative effects of non-alcoholic beer on the body is somewhat reduced, however, the dubious organoleptic qualities of such drinks are not worth jeopardizing your family happiness even in the slightest way.

Is non-alcoholic beer good for breastfeeding?

Dear ladies, let's think logically. Let's assume that the popular Munich theory, according to which beer (including non-alcoholic beer) increases lactation, is true. Т.e, thanks to the use of this conditionally non-alcoholic drink, a nursing mother will not have to worry about the possibility of milk loss. And now let's think about what kind of milk it will be.

First of all, it will be saturated with chemical compounds that cause allergies - chemical compounds that are so rich in the beverages we are interested in... Furthermore, a small, but still very real dose of ethyl alcohol gets into the baby's body along with it.

To complete the picture, along with such milk, your baby will receive a fair portion of beer gases; and I don't need to tell you what gases are for a baby.

So, let's summarize. Non-alcoholic beer with the lowest risk to yourself and your child can be consumed after the early stages of pregnancy. However, it will be better if you can avoid it.

Update: 10.03.2017

Category: Beer, Cider, Ale