Drinking tonic water during pregnancy

[meglet]

Is it safe? I drink quite a lot of it (maybe a litre a day as I love the stuff) and my mum has sent me a couple of links from google that suggest it might not be safe. I do know though that midwives advise quinine as a cure for leg cramps in pregnancy but I was wondering if they prescribe it or just advise pregnant mums to drink tonic water.

Thanks

[Sqad]

No big deal.....if you are pregnant and feel like drinking a litre of tonic water a day...............then go ahead.

[meglet]

Thanks. I was thinking that as long as there is nothing on the NHS foods-to-avoid website it would be ok. Am gutted I have to give up my daily tin of tuna though :-(

[Sqad]

Tuna! For God's sake ........it will due you good during pregnancy.

What will the modern pregnant woman come up with next?

[Grumpygrandad]

May I ask, why give up tuna?

[hc4361]

The risk of mercury in tuna due to sea pollution.

[Sqad]

hc4361......naah!.........mercury is very low in Tuna.

[meglet]

The NHS website advises to limit tuna to 2 cans a week! It also advises limiting, salmon, trout, mackerel, herring, sardines and pilchards as they contain pollutants such as dioxins and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls).

I dunno, I guess it's best to be on the safe side.

[pastafreak]

I thought most salmon at least was farmed. How do they get PCBs then?

[hc4361]

Farmed salmon is the worst of the lot! Swimming round in concentrated salmon poo all day, getting flabby.

[cathfromsaron]

i think there is a portion limit on fish, but not a ban!

don't know how we all survived though ...

[hc4361]

Cath, food was far more natural 'back in the day'. Fish wasn't farmed, seas weren't toxic.

And never forget that the rate of live births has increased a lot over the last 70 years.

[ladyalex]

I drank gallons of tonic water when I was pregnant and no harm done.
I did drink the sugar free stuff, though.
My favourite concoction was tonic water and grapefruit juice...got through gallons of that too....cannot imagine drinking it now, though.

[nikkihilton]

You can take, but It should not effect on your pregnancy... The Tonic should be doctor prescribed.

http://www.thepregnan.../pregnancy-questions/