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Ultrasounds are safe for your unborn babies
Publish Date : 12/4/2004 1:47:00 PM   Source : Health News Onlypunjab.com

Pregnant women can be reassured that  there
is  no evidence that repeated ultrasounds will harm  their  baby,
according to researchers.
 
A  study  by researchers at the University of  Western  Australia
published  in the Lancet, found no evidence of long-term harm  to
the foetus by ultrasound.
Dr  John  Newnham,  who  led the  research,  said:  "Exposure  to
multiple   prenatal  ultrasound  examinations  from   18   weeks'
gestation  onwards  might be associated with a  small  effect  on
foetal growth," Dr John Newnham, who led the research was  quoted
as saying.
 
"But  is  followed  in  childhood  by  growth  and  measures   of
developmental  outcome  similar  to those  in  children  who  had
received a single prenatal scan," he added.
 
The  researchers  said  uncertainty  remained  about  suggestions
repeated  ultrasound  exposure was linked to an increase  in  the
number of left-handed babies born, but said the connection  could
be "nothing more than chance". (ANI)