According to research: pregnant women need complete darkness

21.07.2014

All pregnant women, as well as those who are planning a pregnancy, it is helpful to reduce nighttime lighting to a minimum. According to recent research, the impact of artificial light in the evening hours, can seriously affect the reproductive health of women and lead to health problems of her unborn child.

Experts from the Health Science Center in Texas University at San Antonio learned the importance of darkness for women's reproductive health and the health of her unborn child, and came to some rather surprising conclusions, reports "Livescience". Scientists report claims that darkness plays an important role in the conception and protection of the developing fetus. At the same time, artificial light prevents the women body from producing an internal chemical reaction that due to prolonged exposure to light violates melatonin production.

It is known that melatonin is a hormone that is produced by our pineal gland. Impact darkness stimulates its release, and the presence of melatonin in the body helps to induce drowsiness, thus contributing to the process of sleep.

Women who are already pregnant, an adverse change in melatonin levels, may also affect the unborn child. If the fetus does not receive from his mother the necessary amount of melatonin, the child's biological clock is also confused. As a result, children may develop diseases associated with behavioral problems such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism in children - at an early age.

The study makes it clear that the absence of darkness associated with female fertility. Though itself also sleeping isn't less important than the darkness which is necessary for the production of melatonin.

There are simple steps to ensure the darkness of night - turning off the TV, effectively sealing the doors, shading windows, control of electronic glare from home appliances. When the night light is really needed, the researchers argue that one small source of red or yellow light, as opposed to white or blue light, will have minimal impact on the circadian rhythm.

Based on: moskovskaya-medicina.ru

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