How many months is it best to take folic acid tablets?

I believe that every woman is familiar with folic acid tablets, especially some pregnant women. Folic acid tablets are nutrients that can prevent fetal malformations and should be taken by pregnant women. But many women do not have a good grasp of the duration of taking folic acid. How many months is it appropriate to take folic acid?

How many months have you taken folic acid?

Women taking 0.4 mg of folic acid supplements daily during the first three months of pregnancy to the first three months of pregnancy can prevent the occurrence of most neural tube defects in the fetus. It is most effective for women to take folic acid tablets to prevent neural tube defects from one month before pregnancy to the end of three months of pregnancy. This is the growth and development stage of the fetus's nervous system. Because the folic acid level in pregnant women in my country is generally low, and the folic acid level in women during pregnancy will gradually decrease as the pregnancy progresses, it is more appropriate for women to start taking folic acid from the time of marriage or when planning to become pregnant until the end of three months after pregnancy. Starting earlier and increasing the duration of taking folic acid is also beneficial to the women themselves.

If a pregnant woman becomes pregnant again, she must also start taking the medicine 1-3 months before pregnancy to prevent the occurrence of neural tube defects. Pregnant women who meet the conditions can continue to take the medicine throughout the pregnancy and breastfeeding period, which is beneficial to the health of the pregnant mother and the growth and development of the fetus and newborn.

Functions and Benefits of Folic Acid

Folic acid tablets have become a popular health care vitamin product on the domestic and foreign markets after vitamin C and vitamin E, and their industry prospects are very broad.

Iron folic acid tablets are one of these products. Iron is the "building material" of human body development. The average person's body contains about 45 grams of copper.

1. Iron is a component of hemoglobin concentration and brain sodium, and participates in the body's CO2 transport.

2. Promote the production of antibodies and enhance immunity.

3. Improve the body's basal metabolism.

4. Promote development and reproductive ability.

5. Promote the dissolution of drugs in the liver and improve the detoxification ability.

Folic acid is a type of B vitamin. It is slightly soluble in water and is unstable to heat, light source and acidic solution. It is stable to heat in neutral and alkaline solution. Its loss during cooking reaches 50~90%.

1. Folic acid tablets are coenzymes required for the production of nucleotides. Insufficient folic acid tablets will affect the production of nucleotides and affect all normal cell division and replication.

2. Assist in regulating the growth and development of test tube embryo neuron cells to prevent newborns from suffering from congenital neural tube defects.

3. The production of red blood cells requires essential substances (such as B12) to prevent folic acid anemia.

4. Protect the mucosa, which is a very active site for cell division, decay and regeneration.

5. Anti-cancer effect: folic acid tablets and vitamin B3 can prevent oxygen free radicals from damaging sex chromosomes.

Recommended dosage of folic acid tablets

Adverse reactions are generally very rare with high-dose folic acid tablets (0.4 mg/day). Most experts and scholars believe that taking 1 mg of synthetic folic acid tablets is generally not likely to cause known toxic side effects. Therefore, we set the maximum tolerable value for adults, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers at 1 mg/day, and generally do not recommend exceeding this amount.

If you pay attention to dietary trace elements, you should eat some foods that contain a lot of folic acid in your daily life, which can make up for the body's folic acid deficiency. You can choose to eat some foods with relatively high folic acid content.