Below are some educational and quick reference materials to assist in counseling individuals about folic acid and related issues.

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Job Aids/Quick Reference
 Provider Education
Patient Education 
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Patient Education

Educational Materials and Fact Sheets

  • March of Dimes

To order materials from the March of Dimes, call 1-800-367-6630.

Materials Available Prices
Resource Kit for Health Care Providers  $30.00 / 10   
Pregnancy Wheel $10.00 / 20
NTD Resource Card $10.00 / 10
Mama - magazine for pregnant women FREE
Note Pad (English) $1.50 / 4  
Note Pad (Spanish) $1.50 / 4
Kit Envelope  $12.50 / 10 
Folic Acid Fact Sheet   $6.00 / 50  
Acido folico Fact Sheet   $6.00 / 50    
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

To order the materials below, visit the CDC website.

  • Before You Know It brochures are intended for women who are thinking about becoming pregnant now or sometime soon. These brochures are available in English and Spanish.

  • The Ready, Not series of brochures are intended for women who are not planning to get pregnant in the near future.

  • Folic Acid -> Healthy Babies (Leaflet)

  • Fact Sheet for the General Public (Available in English and Spanish)

  • Folic Acid Questions and Answers sheet.    

  • "What You Should Know About Folic Acid" A five-page booklet for parents who have lost a pregnancy, or had a child with spina bifida, anencephaly or encephalocele. It provides a description of neural tube defects, when they occur, what causes them, and prevention information.  This booklet is also available in Spanish.

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Referrals

... for Pregnant Women and Families

    Access to Nutritious Food

    Recipes High in Folic Acid

... for Parents of a Child with an NTD

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Research

Articles on Folic Acid and Related Issues

  • Bernstein PS, Sanghavi T and Merkatz IR. Improving preconception care.  Journal of Reproductive Medicine. July 2000; 45(7):546-552.

  • Botto LD, Moore CA, Khoury MJ, Erickson JD. Medical progress: Neural-tube defects. New England Journal of Medicine. 1999; 341(20):1512.

  • Campbell, NRC.  How safe are folic acid supplements?  Archives of Internal Medicine.  1996;156:1638-1644.

    • Author comments: "In contrast to the adverse effects of folic acid, the benefit of folic acid in preventing neural tube defects is well defined.  Most of the potential adverse effects of folic acid are dose-dependent, so if folate consumption is increased, the lowest dose of folic acid that would ensure benefit should be used...  It does not seem reasonable to determine the supplementation level based on potential toxic effects but on proven effectiveness.  Using folic acid to prevent atherosclerosis and malignant neoplasm is unproven but also unlikely to cause adverse effects at daily doses lower than 5 mg/d."

  • Czeizel AE, Dudas I. Prevention of the first occurrence of neural-tube defects by periconceptional vitamin supplementation. New England Journal of Medicine 1992 Dec 24; 327(26):1832-5.

  • Czeizel AE. Prevention of congenital abnormalities by periconceptional multivitamin supplementation.  British Medical Journal.  1993; 306:1645-1648.

  • Hernandez-Diaz S, Werler M, Walker A, Mitchell AA. Folic acid antagonists during pregnancy and the risk of birth defects. New England Journal of Medicine. 2000; 343(22):1608-1614.

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