According to a new study pregnant women who take additional Choline supplements daily may reduce the impact of respiratory infections, even the Corona Virus, on their babies. Higher Choline levels seem to protect a fetus’s developing brain even if the mother develops a respiratory infection during the early parts of her pregnancy.
Researchers looked at mothers who had gotten a respiratory virus during their pregnancies and analyzed their infant’s behavioral development using Revised Infant Behavior Questionnaires (IBQ-R). Lower IBQ-R Regulation at age one is associated with problems in social and attention behavior later in childhood. Results of the research found that the infants of mothers with viral infections during pregnancy who had higher Choline levels showed significantly increased IBQ-R scores in the Regulation dimension and the Attention scale at 3 months of age when compared to the infants of mothers who had viral infections during pregnancy but who had lower Choline levels.
To obtain Choline levels high enough to protect the fetus most often requires dietary supplementation. Researchers are predicting that COVID-19 will impact fetal brain development in ways similar to other common Corona Respiratory Viruses. Researchers concluded that supplementing Choline in addition to a Pre-Natal vitamin may help protect the brain of the fetus from the negative impacts of any type of Respiratory Infection. They stressed the key finding of this study is that “higher prenatal Choline levels are associated with decreased adverse effects on the infant’s development if the mother has a moderately severe respiratory virus infection.” They went on to say that along with other CDC guidelines on COVID-19’s effect in pregnancy, Phosphatidylcholine or Choline Supplements along with a Prenatal Vitamin “help buffer the fetal brain from the possible detrimental impact of the current pandemic.”
It will take years to access the effects that COVID-19 has on the children the women who experienced this virus while pregnant.
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