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Researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children found evidence of Meth
in the hair of some newborns, tracing the mother's use and how the drug
crosses the placenta into the fetus.
Because fetal hair does not start growing until about the
20th week of pregnancy, the lead researcher explained, evidence of Meth in
a newborn means it was not accidental exposure. Instead, it means
the mother used the drug knowing she was pregnant. It also doesn't show up
in a newborn's hair if the mother uses Meth; it has to be persistent in
the blood of the mom in order to grow into the hair.
Read article as printed in Canada's CBC News
Read full study published in Fetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of
Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease
in Childhood
(PDF Format)
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