Can pregnant women eat crabs?

Crab is a creature with very high taste and nutritional value, and is very popular on people's tables. When crabs mature, people enjoy them. However, due to their cold nature, crabs are not suitable for large-scale consumption and may have adverse effects on people with special physical conditions. Therefore, you must pay attention to some matters when eating crabs. Let’s take a look at whether pregnant people can eat crabs?

Pregnant women should not eat hairy crabs. Hairy crabs are a type of crab and are a type of food that is prone to causing allergies. Pregnant women can easily develop allergies after eating them, which is not good for the health of the fetus. Moreover, hairy crabs are cold in nature. Eating too much can cause fetal movement disorder, and in severe cases can even induce miscarriage. Moreover, parasites are easily retained in hairy crabs. If they are not steamed or cooked thoroughly, the parasites may be absorbed by the fetus.

Therefore, pregnant women should be cautious when eating hairy crabs. Pregnant women who really cannot resist delicious food should try to eat less hairy crabs. Pregnant women with allergies should avoid eating hairy crabs.

Crabs have the following hazards for pregnant women:

1. Eating crabs can cause miscarriage. Crabs are cold in nature and have the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. They will make the fetus restless and have the effect of moving the fetus, and may also cause miscarriage. It is not advisable to eat a lot of overly cold food during pregnancy, otherwise it is easy to have symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea, and severe cases may lead to miscarriage.

2. Parasites are likely to remain in the bodies of crabs. Crabs are prone to harboring parasites. If they are not cooked thoroughly, the parasites will enter the body of pregnant women and be harmful to the fetus. Moreover, some crabs are fed with large amounts of oxytocin during the breeding process, which contains hormone components and is harmful to the health of pregnant women and fetuses.

3. The dangers of high protein and high cholesterol. Crabs are high-protein foods and are easy to deteriorate and rot. If you accidentally eat dead crabs, it can easily cause symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting, which is extremely dangerous for pregnant women. The high cholesterol in crabs will increase the cholesterol content in the bile of pregnant women, which can easily cause poor bile excretion and congestion. If bile flows back into the pancreatic duct, pancreatic enzymes will be activated prematurely, inducing pancreatitis. Therefore, pregnant women with pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome and gestational diabetes must be forbidden to eat crabs. Patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, fatty liver, obesity, allergies and renal insufficiency are also not suitable for eating crabs.