Community agencies and
leaders can play an important role in saving the lives of
babies.
Folic acid, a B vitamin, when taken
before and in the earliest stages of pregnancy, can prevent
up to 70% of a group of serious, sometimes life-threatening
birth defects, called neural
tube defects (NTDs). Since more than
50% of all pregnancies are not planned, it is vital that
the folic acid message gets to all women long before they
they become pregnant. Encourage your agency to spread the
folic acid message.
How can my organization help?
| There are many ways you and your
organization can encourage women to take a multivitamin
with folic acid every day. NC Folic Acid Council members
can help you with project ideas and making contacts
with groups already working in NTD prevention. |
- Include information about folic
acid in your next newsletter or at your next meeting.
- Refer your family, friends and colleagues
to this web site
- Join the NC
Folic Acid Council
- Encourage health professionals to
talk to their patients about folic acid.
- Put a folic acid message on your
"hold line"
- Put up posters in your office
(Cost free! Order
Form)
- Organize or sponsor a community service
project on folic acid (NC Folic Acid Council members
can help you with ideas and resources)
- Help another group with their on-going
folic acid project
- Put a link to this website on your
home page
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