FDA says avoid Fetal keepsake ultrasounds and heartbeat monitors
Not that I usually agree with how the FDA makes judgments and recommendations, but this time they may be on to something helpful.
They are reporting that unnecessary and non-medically prescribed Ultrasounds and Doppler fetal heartbeat monitoring may not be in the best health interest of your child.
I know many people, and you do as well, that go the extra mile to get a “keepsake video” of their unborn child, and continually listen to their heartbeat. Hopefully no harm has come to their child in lieu of it. But perhaps this information should make us rethink the whole idea of pre-birth sights and sounds.
“Although there are no known risks of ultrasound imaging and heartbeat monitors, the radiation associated with them can produce effects on the body,” says Robert Phillips, Ph.D., a physicist with FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). “When ultrasound enters the body, it heats the tissues slightly. In some cases, it can also produce small pockets of gas in body fluids or tissues.”
Phillips says the long-term effects of tissue heating and of the formation of partial vacuums in a liquid by high-intensity sound waves (cavitation) are not known.
“Performing prenatal ultrasounds without medical oversight may put a mother and her unborn baby at risk,” says Phillips. “The bottom line is: Why take a chance with your baby’s health for the sake of a video?”
For further information, please be sure to check out the FDA website at
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm149210.htm
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