What is the impact of severe calcium deficiency in pregnant women on the baby?

Pregnant women must pay attention to proper calcium supplementation during pregnancy, because if there is a serious calcium deficiency, it will have a great impact on the fetus, easily leading to congenital rickets in the fetus, or causing it to suffer from eczema after birth, causing the baby to cry at night and have restless sleep.

1. Congenital rickets

Congenital rickets is characterized by enlarged fontanelles in newborns, communication between the anterior and posterior fontanelles, and is often accompanied by hypocalcemic convulsions. Mothers of such babies often experience symptoms of hypocalcemia such as back pain, calf cramps, and numbness in the hands and feet during pregnancy. Therefore, mothers' proper calcium supplementation is helpful in preventing rickets in newborns.

2. Eczema

There are many theories about the cause of eczema, but recent studies have shown that low-calcium spasm and local blood supply insufficiency can cause rashes, rough skin, and dandruff. Calcium has anti-inflammatory and vascular permeability-reducing effects, and calcium supplementation has functions that other drugs cannot achieve in the treatment of eczema.

3. Laryngeal wheezing

Laryngeal stridor refers to the "gurgling" sound that newborns or babies aged 2-3 months make when they breathe. It is caused by the softening of the laryngeal cartilage due to calcium deficiency. If mothers supplement calcium in time, the occurrence of this disease can be reduced.

4. Babies tend to cry at night

The baby always cries at night but has no other diseases. In fact, this is because the baby is calcium deficient. If the baby's calcium intake is sufficient, the symptoms of night crying can be effectively controlled.

5. Babies are prone to night terrors

Because the baby's brain nervous system is immature and has poor control ability before six months old, it is easy to have night terrors while sleeping, which is also caused by calcium deficiency. This phenomenon rarely occurs in babies who have adequate calcium intake.