What happens if I have white discharge from my vagina during pregnancy?

Pregnant women have great responsibilities during pregnancy. They should maintain a good attitude and not be under too much stress. They should observe the development of the fetus while taking care of their own body. Some pregnant women have white secretions from their lower body and they don’t feel anything. Many pregnant women don’t know whether this white secretion is normal. What does it mean when they have white secretions from their lower body during pregnancy? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What does it mean when white discharge occurs from the lower body during pregnancy?

If you are pregnant, you will also have leucorrhea; and during pregnancy, vaginal secretions will increase due to local congestion in the vagina and the influence of hormones.

2. What not to eat during pregnancy

Pregnant women should not eat hawthorn. The hawthorn acid, tartaric acid and brass components contained in hawthorn will strengthen the contraction of uterine smooth muscle, which may easily cause uterine contraction in early pregnancy, thus leading to miscarriage. It is not suitable to eat longan. Longan is warm in nature. Patients with yin deficiency, internal heat constitution and febrile diseases should not eat too much, especially pregnant women with yin and blood deficiency should not eat longan. Eating too much can cause dry mouth, fetal heat, dry stool, liver meridian stagnation, and symptoms of miscarriage such as bleeding and abdominal pain. It is not suitable to eat too much canned food. Canned food contains additives and preservatives. After a woman becomes pregnant, a series of changes occur in the body, making it difficult for some harmful substances to be detoxified and excreted. The fetus's tissues and organs are not sound in early pregnancy, and it has no detoxification function. During pregnancy, especially in early pregnancy, eating a lot of canned food can cause chronic poisoning, and even malformations and miscarriage.

3. Folic acid supplementation during pregnancy

After pregnancy, the folic acid in the mother's body will be continuously delivered to the fetus to meet the needs of the fetus's organ differentiation and growth and development. However, after pregnancy, the mother's blood volume will increase, resulting in plasma dilution and increased folic acid excretion in urine, both of which will cause folic acid deficiency in the mother's body.

Therefore, this requires pregnant mothers to supplement adequate folic acid. It should be noted that the closure of the fetal neural tube occurs about 40 days after menstruation, so folic acid supplementation should start at least 3 months before pregnancy and continue until 3 months of early pregnancy or throughout the pregnancy.

For pregnant mothers who did not have time to supplement folic acid before pregnancy, it is still useful to take it after finding out that they are pregnant. Therefore, you must remember to supplement folic acid after finding out that you are pregnant.