Vitamin E and pregnancy:
Yong, SB et al expressed that diets during pregnancy which include greater amounts of vitamin E, vitamin D, and/or probiotics have been found to result in less rates of childhod asthma and that modifying the diet to include vitamin E and other nutrients may prevent asthma. (10)
Clark J found that a dietary intervention by counseling resulted in the improvement of vitamin E intake from foods which may result in less rates of childhood asthma if it can be sustained during the entire pregnancy. (11)
Bártfai L et al found that if pregnant women were treated with about 450 mg of vitamin E, preterm births were reduced by 30%. This conclusion was drawn as a result of the treatment group being compared to a large data set of the Hungarian Case-Control Surveillance System of Congenital Abnormalities. In addition, the duration of gestation was found to be 0.2 weeks longer. Despite this positive finding, threatened abortion and threatened preterm delivery occurred much more frequently in the vitamin E group. (12)