What to eat during pregnancy

When a woman is pregnant, her body becomes extra sensitive, and many symptoms that do not normally occur may break out during pregnancy. Pregnant women usually eat more. What should pregnant women eat when they have bloating? If pregnant women have bloating due to eating too much, they can eat some food that is easy to digest or promotes gastrointestinal motility. Let’s learn about it in detail.

1. What to eat when you have bloating during pregnancy

Barley porridge or rice porridge are good for bloating, and can also relieve problems such as heartburn or stomach pain. The main operation method is: Boil one part rice and one part water for 10 minutes, then change to low heat and simmer for about an hour. Drinking it several times a day can help relieve bloating.

Buy relatively pure apple cider vinegar, just one spoonful and add a 200ml cup of water, which can aid digestion. Or you can drink a glass of lemon water on an empty stomach every morning after getting up, which can help promote gastrointestinal motility and facilitate bowel movements in time to avoid the possibility of gas production. Green radish is the best, followed by red and white radish. Don’t eat carrots because they have no effect. It is best to cut them into pieces and eat them raw. However, if you have poor stomach function, you can stew them into soup. The effect of drinking the soup is also very good. It has the effect of strengthening the stomach, clearing heat and eliminating phlegm.

Kiwi fruit contains nutrients such as dietary fiber, vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin E, folic acid and carotene. The dietary fiber it is rich in is almost the best quality among fruits. These dietary fibers can help the human gastrointestinal digestion, absorb and take away many harmful substances and greasy fats in the intestines, and have a good effect of clearing heat and reducing fire, moisturizing dryness and promoting bowel movements.

Grapefruit contains nutrients such as dietary fiber, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, etc., and has the effect of clearing the intestines and promoting bowel movements. Other fruits such as peaches, bayberries, dates, watermelons, apricots, etc. contain various vitamins and are rich in large amounts of fiber, which can prevent and treat constipation. If patients with constipation eat some thick-skinned and juicy grapefruit, their bowel movements will often become smooth immediately. Note: Grapefruit has a laxative effect and can cause diarrhea. Therefore, people with poor gastrointestinal function should not eat too much grapefruit.

2. Treatment of abdominal bloating

To relieve bloating, you must first adjust your eating habits. If you already have bloating but still overeat every time you eat, it will naturally increase the burden on your stomach. Therefore, the first thing to do is to change the bad habit of overeating during pregnancy. Then, eating small meals frequently is also a very good diet for pregnant women. Eat smaller amounts each time, but eat more often, so that the time it takes for food to enter the stomach will be longer. This will reduce the burden on the stomach and help ease gastric motility. Naturally, you won’t have bloating.

Massage method: First, eat small and frequent meals. One hour after each meal, lie on your side and prepare from the right upper abdomen. Follow the direction of the clock and slowly move to the left upper abdomen. Then, continue to slowly move to the lower abdomen. Here, it is important to point out that you must remember not to massage the uterus when doing massage. Because once the massage touches the uterus, it can easily cause uterine contractions, which is very dangerous. So, remember! Do not press the uterus during massage.

Hawthorn can stimulate appetite, help digestion, relieve gas and relieve pain. Soak hawthorn in water, or boil it with tea leaves to make hawthorn tea, and drink it every day. It has a good effect in improving symptoms such as meat stagnation, abdominal bloating, and loss of appetite. You can also choose fresh hawthorn and rice to cook porridge, which also has the effect of nourishing the spleen and stomach, invigorating qi and promoting salivation.