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Mother’s alcoholism root of her health issues by Carol Bradley Bursack Posted Mon 15 Aug 2011 12:00am Dear Carol: My mom is 64 years old and had a stroke three years ago. She lives alone and I feel she cannot take care of herself. She has been an alcoholic for many years and it is putting her health at high risk, as well as her safety. Mom recently fell and lay on the floor until I found her two days later. After finding her, I calle ... Read on »

Why Some Mothers (Wrongly) Let Kids Try Alcohol by Medline Plus Posted Wed 26 Sep 2012 4:00pm Early introduction may lead to problem drinking in teen years, researchers say Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Parenting , Underage Drinking Read on »

Secondhanding Drinking – Understand, Treat and/or Prevent It and We Can Reduce Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism and Underage Drin by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted Thu 07 Jan 2010 9:10am by Lisa Frederiksen WHAT THIS MEANS There are several entry points to the disease of alcoholism and the condition of alcohol abuse. They are called risk factors. Many of them are the result of secondhand drinking – in other words, the impacts a person experiences as the result of a someone else’s abusive drinking and/or alcoholism. These ... Read on »

Books, Blogs and Videos That May Help When Talking With Children About Alcohol and Alcoholism by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted Tue 10 Nov 2009 10:02pm by Lisa Frederiksen This post is a compilation of resources that may help you with talking with children at various ages. The first is a video clip about Vanessa Van Paetten. She hosts a blog, Radical Parenting, that is excellent and helps parents understand the world of teens, which is so important to maintaining the critical communication ... Read on »

Ezine Article on Growing Up in an Alcoholic family by addictiondoc Posted Tue 22 Dec 2009 4:45am I published an ezine article several days ago called, “Alcoholic Mother: An Alcoholic Family Nightmare”. I discussed the effects of growing up in a tense and chaotic environment with an alcoholic mother. (If you or someone you know has a parent or spouse with an alcohol problem, please click here to get my free special report on avoiding th ... Read on »

Breastfeeding: The Effects of Alcohol and Caffeine on Breast Milk by Kodjoworkout Posted Fri 25 May 2012 7:00am As any mother knows breastfeeding is the best when it comes to the nutrition for your baby. However, some may not know that certain foods or beverages can actually pass through the breast milk and harm the baby. No one is saying that new moms can’t touch alcohol or other products such as caffeine, but there is a way to keep the baby safe ... Read on »

Choline for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders? by Dirk H. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 10 Jun 2010 4:39pm Common supplement may reduce cell death in pregnancies. A common dietary supplement markedly decreases defects in the skull and brain formation of lab mice born to mothers exposed to alcohol, say researchers at the Medical College of Georgia. Among the grisly list of potential effects caused by alcohol consumption d ... Read on »

Mom's Alcoholism Especially Tough on Daughter's Mental Health by Medline Plus Posted Tue 20 Jul 2010 2:00pm Study finds that outcomes are worse for daughters of affected women, vs. other parent-child pairings By Robert Preidt Tuesday, July 20, 2010 TUESDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) -- The risk that children of an alchoholic parent run of developing a psychiatric illness later in life may depend, in p ... Read on »

Celebrating with Alcohol: A Reward for a Job Well Done? by RaisingTeens Posted Wed 09 Mar 2011 2:25pm Mar 9, 2011 by Charisse Willis | Categories , , , , , , , I stem from a family of alcoholics and though my mother managed to escape that legacy, I was still raised in a house where a hard day’s work was rewarded with a glass of wine. Dinner parties included various alcoholic drinks of my ... Read on »

Misdiagnosing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder by Dirk H. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 29 Jul 2012 2:38pm Facial abnormalities not present in most cases. Back in 1967, when a French pediatrician tried to alert doctors to developmental problems he had recognized in the children of alcoholic mothers, he didn’t make much progress. A few years later, pediatrician David Smith began seeing the same sorts of trouble as Paul Lemoine had seen in ... Read on »