Acupunture Against Depression In Pregnant Women

Filed in archive Other Pregnancy Issues on February 28, 2010

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According to statistics, an estimated 3 to 5 percent of pregnant women are diagnosed with depression.

What are anti-depressant drugs doing, you might say?

Of course there are safety concerns as these are pregnant women we are talking about.

Enter acupunture.

Listen up:

Acupuncture may hold promise for depression in pregnant women, a new study, co-authored by a University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy researcher, shows.

The findings, published in the medical journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, show that 12 acupuncture treatments over eight weeks might help reduce the severity of depression symptoms.

I'm not fully convinced. But then any non-drug option to battle major depression while pregnant is surely welcome.

What do you think?