How to remedy excessive salt intake in pregnant women

Some women's taste will change significantly after pregnancy. Many women who originally liked to eat light food will have a particularly heavy taste and like to eat salty food. However, if a woman continues to eat too salty food after becoming pregnant, it will have a great impact on herself and the fetus in her womb, so she should adjust her diet. So how can pregnant women remedy the problem of eating too much salt? Let’s take a detailed look below.

Causes edema in pregnant women

If pregnant women eat more salt, the sodium content in their body will increase, which will cause sodium retention in tissues, leading to edema in pregnant women, affecting the healthy growth of themselves and the fetus.

Causes facial swelling in pregnant women

If pregnant women eat too much salty food, it will disrupt their endocrine system, so water metabolism disorders often occur. If this continues for a long time, edema will often occur, so it is recommended to eat a light diet during pregnancy.

Causes high blood pressure

Pregnant women often eat food that is too salty, and the excessive salt and alkali content in the food will increase the burden on the kidneys, reduce the amount of sodium excretion, and cause electrolyte imbalance, which can easily cause increased blood potassium, lead to damaged heart function, increased blood pressure, and diseases such as gestational hypertension, which is dangerous for both adults and babies.

Affects fetal hair quality

If pregnant women eat too much salt, it will affect the health of the fetus's hair. Not only will it easily cause nutritional metabolic hair loss, it will also make the hair become dry and yellow, or even cause baldness. Because eating too salty a diet will increase the burden on the kidneys and cause sodium excretion disorders, which will lead to high blood pressure and protein metabolism disorders. It will affect the formation of protein in the hair, causing the hair to fade in color or even wither.