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Dress helps protect pregnant women

(Chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2007-01-29 10:11


As the Year of the Pig is coming near, many pregnant women in Guangzhou
are expecting their baby to be born in the lucky golden pig year. Among
all those maternity and baby goods, a kind of dress supposed to shield
pregnant women from radiation is selling hot.

Sales of such dress are especially good this year in nearly all shopping
malls in Guangzhou. Although the price of such maternity dresses vary
from 300 yuan to 1,000 yuan, there is still a huge demand for them.

Ms. Li, a saleswoman at a maternity dress shop, told this reporter that
most buyers were white collar office workers. As these women often work
in an environment with much radiation, they are the group who can also
afford to buy the clothes.

Currently, most women with child who wear such maternity clothes are
those who work in public institutions and enterprises. They are made in
various forms. Some are made into robes, while others are made into
vests, aprons, or belly clothes.

��Nowadays, we are exposed to so much radiation in offices and we need to
take precautionary measures. I have bought three maternity garments that
can protect me from radiation. Although they are by no means cheap, I
feel it is still worth it,�� said Ms. Gao, a young woman who has been in
a family way for only two months.

Ms. Wu agreed with her point. In order to make sure that her baby would
be born healthy, she said she wouldn��t mind spending some money.
Although she wasn��t quite sure about the effect of such clothes, at
least they would make her less worried about her child.

So far, China has not issued any authoritative document to acknowledge
the effect of such maternity clothes which are said to be helpful in
guarding against radiation. The state has not publicized any standards
for the production. So it is still unknown whether these clothes are
helpful to those mothers-to-be. The reporter was informed that all such
maternity clothes sold in Guangzhou had been appraised by the Shanghai
Testing Center before they were put on sale.

In a telephone interview, a doctor from the Maternity and Childcare
Hospital of Guangzhou told the reporter that doctors usually would ask
pregnant women to avoid possible radiation sources, such as computers, TV
sets and fridges in their daily life. However, doctors seldom suggest
pregnant women should wear these maternity clothes against radiation. The
doctor hoped that before buying these clothes, young couples should get
more knowledge about the clothes so that they won't cause any harm to the
mothers-to-be.










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