Diet Coke Pregnancy Nhs
I ve been living off diet coke coke zero since being pregnant.
Diet coke pregnancy nhs. In my first pregnancy i ended up swapping from diet to full fat after years of detesting fat coke. To be on the safe side you may want to limit the amount of soda you drink. According to a study from the department of pediatrics and child health at the university of manitoba in canada maternal consumption of artificial sweeteners during pregnancy may influence infant bmi body mass.
In an interview with. If i were you i would avoid it at first try something else fizzy. But research has raised concerns about both diet soda and regular soft drinks during pregnancy.
I ve been drinking diet coke i didn t hear until very recently about the aspartame thing but i think 4 5 a week like you re having is ok. Especially when on nights out i ll have a good few drinks of it in one night. I m not drinking tea coffee.
The main issue with diet soda is artificial sweeteners such as saccharin being consumed during pregnancy as well as the caffeine content. Much as we would love otherwise we know being pregnant isn t a free pass to consume anything and everything in front of us. June 25 2020 2 35 pm est.
My midwife said a small amount at this stage is ok and you are better having fat coke than diet coke. Pregnant women are advised to drink no more than two cups of coffee a day to cut the risk of giving birth to underweight babies reports the times the newspaper says that new research has led the uk food standards agency to reduce its maximum recommended daily caffeine intake during pregnancy to 200 mg roughly the amount in two cups of instant coffee. One large study of more than 60 000 pregnant women found that those who drank more than one artificially sweetened or sugar sweetened beverage a day had an increased risk of.
By hope ngo june 23 2020 5 42 pm est updated. As said before you re allowed around 4 5 cans a day before it goes over the daily caffiene limit. Alison hill the caffeine content in diet coke is not high enough to be a threat to pregnancy.