Things that pregnant women should avoid

We know that when your wife is pregnant, the surprise is beyond your expectations. So while you are happy, do you need to pay attention to what your wife eats in her daily life? Because diet is very important to us. This directly concerns the nutritional issues of your wife and your children. So do you know what are the main dietary taboos for pregnant women? This is also what we need to pay attention to. Let’s take a look at it together!

Dietary taboos during pregnancy

1. Avoid eating hawthorn and acidic foods

2. Do not eat soft-shelled turtles and crabs

3. Do not eat coix seed and purslane

Both coix seed and purslane are slippery foods and can be eaten as food or used as medicine. Both can have a stimulating effect on the uterine muscles, thereby increasing the frequency and intensity of uterine contractions, which can easily lead to miscarriage.

4. Avoid eating fried foods and spicy seasonings

5. Do not eat raw fish, raw meat, raw eggs, or uncooked fish, meat, eggs, etc.

6. Avoid high-sugar and high-calorie foods

7. Pregnant women should not eat canned food

Canned food is delicious and convenient, but a certain amount of additives are often added during the production process of canned food. These are artificially synthesized chemicals that have a certain impact on embryonic tissue.

8. Avoid eating too much salt

Women are prone to edema and high blood pressure during pregnancy, so it is recommended that pregnant women should not eat too much salt. Not eating any salt is not good for pregnant women. It is necessary to eat less salt.

9. Pregnant women should not eat high-fat foods for a long time

During pregnancy, energy consumption is high and sugar reserves are reduced, which is not conducive to the decomposition of fat. Therefore, ketone bodies are often produced due to insufficient oxidation, which can easily lead to ketoaemia. Pregnant women may experience symptoms such as ketone bodies in the urine, severe dehydration, red lips, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. Pregnant women who adopt a high-fat diet for a long time will inevitably increase their risk of reproductive system cancer.

10. Pregnant women should not eat too much animal liver

Studies have found that when pregnant women consume large amounts of vitamin A, their offspring are born with cleft lip, cleft palate, ear, eye and urethra defects. Animal liver contains a lot of vitamin A, so experts recommend that pregnant women should reduce their intake of animal liver in the first three months of pregnancy and eat it only occasionally, with each intake limited to 30 to 50 grams. Carotene can be obtained from fresh vegetables and fruits and converted into vitamin A, and B vitamins and trace elements such as zinc can be supplemented from fish and lean meat.

Well, the above is our basic introduction about the foods that pregnant women should avoid. After reading it, do you feel that there is a lot of knowledge involved? Why do I say that? Because the profound knowledge contained in it is directly related to your wife and children, so this is one of the reasons why we have to study it thoroughly. You should take a closer look!