MANDATORY fortification of bread with folic acid
25 October 2009
MANDATORY fortification of bread with folic acid would reduce the number of children born with spina bifida – but is mass medication safe or ethical, asks Dani Garavelli
MELANIE Chambers had endured a 15-hour labour and an emergency caesarian and was just celebrating the successful delivery of a baby girl when the consultant came in bearing bad news. Her beautiful new daughter Ella had spina bifida and hydrocephalus (excess fluid on the brain). She was paralysed from the waist down, and would need shunts fitted to her head before she could lift it..................
MANDATORY fortification of bread with folic acid would reduce the number of children born with spina bifida – but is mass medication safe or ethical, asks Dani Garavelli
MELANIE Chambers had endured a 15-hour labour and an emergency caesarian and was just celebrating the successful delivery of a baby girl when the consultant came in bearing bad news. Her beautiful new daughter Ella had spina bifida and hydrocephalus (excess fluid on the brain). She was paralysed from the waist down, and would need shunts fitted to her head before she could lift it..................
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