How to supplement folic acid when pregnant
Do not underestimate the small folic acid tablets, but it plays an important role in it, not allowed to take folic acid supplements before pregnancy can prevent the occurrence of fetal neural tube malformation, then not how mothers should be scientific, Do you take folic acid reasonably?
Q: When I went to the hospital for medical examination, the hospital issued a few bottles of folic acid tablets for free. Is it necessary to supplement folic acid? What is the role?
A: The supplement of folic acid is a method to prevent baby's birth defects. Women should pay more attention to supplement folic acid in normal times. Women and expectant mothers who are preparing to get pregnant need to take a certain amount of folic acid. The important role of folic acid has the following aspects:
Prevention of Neural Tube Birth Defects The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that if a woman at least 1 month before conception and insists on taking the recommended daily dose of folic acid for the first 3 months of pregnancy, the risk of neural tube defects can be reduced. Reduce 50% to 70%.
Reducing the risk of mothers suffering from preeclampsia Studies have shown that taking multiple vitamins containing folic acid may reduce the risk of mothers suffering from preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is a complication that is unique to pregnancy. Preeclampsia is a hypertensive disorder that is unique during pregnancy and affects 5% to 8% of expectant mothers.
Reduce the Risk of Hyperlipidemia in Pregnancy The Chinese Society of Nutrition recommends taking it from 2 to 3 months before pregnancy and taking it until 3 months of pregnancy or during the whole pregnancy. In addition to preventing neural tube defects, it also helps to reduce hyperlipidemia in pregnancy. The risk occurred.
Q: I don't know my exact pregnancy time. What if I eat too much folic acid or eat less?
A: Three months before you are ready to get pregnant, it is recommended to add folic acid tablets and foods rich in folic acid (animal liver, dark green vegetables and beans). If you do not know your exact pregnancy date, you can start from when you plan to become pregnant. Taking, regularly quantifying, effective prevention, and promoting folic acid supplementation for the first 3 months of pregnancy, is not allowing mothers to supplement as early as possible, so that the body reserves a good folic acid environment.
Q: Relatives sent a lot of nutrients, no folic acid supplements, how many doses of folic acid tablets? Didn't my father need to add it?
A: The only folic acid supplement on the market that has been approved by the national health department to prevent fetal neural tube malformation is "Slien". The supplement is 0.4 mg once a day.
Experts advise that there is a "folic acid tablet" on the market for the treatment of anemia. Each tablet contains 5 mg of folic acid, equivalent to 12.5 times that of folic acid supplements. Mothers should not be allowed to take this large dose of folic acid tablets, mothers are not allowed to take folic acid under the guidance of a doctor, should not abuse their own drugs, buy drugs.
It has always been thought that no mothers can supplement folic acid. Actually, fathers and fathers must not neglect the supplementation of folic acid. Folic acid itself is an essential nutrient for the human body. The mother who is preparing to be pregnant has a large demand for folic acid. The lack of folic acid will increase the risk of birth defects of the baby. For the unintended father, folic acid is an important substance for improving the quality of sperm, when folic acid is When the male body is deficient, the semen concentration and sperm motility are decreased, which reduces the chance of pregnancy. The current US Department of Agriculture recommends that daily dietary standards must ensure that an adult male consumes 0.4 mg of folic acid per day.
Q: Which foods contain folic acid?
A: There are many foods containing folic acid, but because folic acid is unstable when exposed to light and heat, it is easy to lose its activity. Therefore, the amount of folic acid that the body can really obtain from food is not much. Such as: vegetable storage 2 to 3 days after the loss of folic acid 50% to 70%; soup and other cooking methods will make food folic acid loss of 50% to 95%; brine soaked vegetables, folic acid ingredients will also be a great loss.
Therefore, mothers who are not expected to change their cooking habits to minimize the loss of folic acid, but also to strengthen the intake of foods rich in folic acid, if necessary, can be supplemented with folic acid, or multi-element tablets containing folic acid. Folic acid is a water-soluble vitamin. In the liver and eggs, the content in green leafy vegetables and fruits is relatively high.
Folate-rich vegetables, such as: lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, carrots, vegetables, asparagus, broccoli, rape, cabbage, lentils, soybean meal, mushrooms and so on.
Fruits rich in folic acid, such as: bayberry, jellyfish, wild jujube, hawthorn, pomegranate, grapes, kiwi, strawberries, pears, walnuts and so on.
Q: If you can maintain a balanced diet, do you have to supplement folic acid by taking folic acid tablets?
A: The Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents, published by the China Nutrition Society in January 2008, recommends that dietary guidelines for specific groups of people (not expecting mothers and expectant mothers) include: Ingestion of folic acid-rich foods or supplementation with folic acid.
If pregnant women do not lack folic acid through pre-pregnancy medical examinations, they can use dietary intake of folic acid. They do not necessarily have to use “drug supplements,†but some folic acid-deficient areas, such as remote mountain areas and inaccessible places, are prone to folate deficiency. , it must be through "drug supplement" to increase the body's folic acid content.
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