Can pregnant women eat duck eggs to prevent jaundice?

Jaundice is the most common skin disease in infants and young children. Some people also call it fetal toxin. So what is fetal toxin? In fact, modern people believe that there is no such thing as fetal toxins. This is actually a skin disease related to allergy. There are many methods related to preventing jaundice circulated among the people, for example, it is believed that eating duck eggs can prevent jaundice. So does eating duck eggs during pregnancy really help prevent fetal jaundice?

What is fetal toxicity?

Modern medicine believes that there is no such thing as fetal "poison" during pregnancy.

In modern medicine, eczema is a common skin disease associated with allergic reactions. It is the allergic reaction of the skin when humans first come into contact with the environment. Eczema is one such manifestation of maladaptation. Food, medicine, parasites, bacteria, pollen, animal fur, or factors such as hot or cold, humidity, dryness, and sunlight can all trigger eczema. The latest research shows that eczema is mainly caused by the lack of a protein called filaggrin in the skin.

As for thrush, it is caused by Candida albicans infection of the oral cavity. The factors that cause thrush are divided into endogenous factors and exogenous factors. Endogenous factors include: malnutrition, low immunity, and long-term use of antibiotics or hormones. Exogenous factors include: the mother suffers from Candida albicans vaginitis and infects the baby during delivery; not paying attention to the feeding method, using the bottle or tableware used to feed children with thrush to feed normal children, thereby infecting the normal children.

Neonatal jaundice is caused by the fact that after the baby is born, the lungs can obtain all the oxygen. The excess red blood cells in the body that are originally responsible for oxygen transportation are destroyed, and a large amount of yellow bilirubin in the red blood cells is released. However, the processing mechanism of the newborn's liver and other mechanisms is not yet mature, so visible jaundice appears.

Do goose eggs and duck eggs really have magical effects?

Let's take a look at the nutrients contained in common chicken eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs:

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From the data in the table we can see:

1. Goose eggs and duck eggs contain more fat and cholesterol than chicken eggs, but relatively less protein. 2. In terms of minerals, the content of iron and selenium is relatively high, but the iron exists in the form of non-heme iron and has a relatively low bioavailability. Selenium is a good nutrient. For pregnant women, taking selenium can maintain normal immunity and has an antioxidant effect. The calcium content is relatively low. 3. In terms of vitamins, we can see that goose eggs and duck eggs have no obvious advantages over chicken eggs except for VE.

4. The main purpose of eating various eggs is to ingest their protein. Goose egg protein lacks tryptophan and serine, which indicates that the types of amino acids in goose protein are not uniform.

Conclusion: Goose eggs do not have any more obvious advantages than duck eggs and chicken eggs in terms of nutrient content and variety. On the contrary, goose eggs contain two fewer types of amino acids, one of which is an essential amino acid. If eating goose eggs can remove fetal toxins, then duck eggs and chicken eggs should also have the effect of removing fetal toxins. In fact, modern medicine already has enough evidence, and such falsification has no practical significance.

It seems that confinement nannies should no longer blindly believe in some folk remedies, but should focus on scientificity when giving guidance to mothers. This is a generation of knowledgeable mothers. Don't let people think that you are still a confinement nanny from the last century.