Dietary copper deficiency baby mother not clever

May 19, 2012 Chanda Golemba

Copper is necessary for human body trace elements. Many copper intakes were inadequate. United States scientists do research with mice found that get enough copper during pregnancy on fetal brain development is very important. Reducing copper intake in rats during pregnancy and breastfeeding, will cause a reduction in neonatal rat brain development of the nervous system as a result of poor intelligence. The study found that copper deficiency can affect the activity of several enzymes in the brain as copper or ingredients of these enzymes, or the enzyme Activator. PKC enzymes of the close relationship with the development of the nervous system under the influence of copper deficiency is obvious.

In the study, the researchers are divided into three groups of pregnant mothers: the first group of mothers during pregnancy and lactation day 1 mg copper, equivalent to one-sixth daily requirement of; the second group received 2 mg, the third group access to adequate amounts of copper. Mice after birth, determination of three groups separately PKC enzymes in rat brain revealed, 1 mg Group’s enzyme activity only enough 50%, 2 mg Group is enough group 75%. Determination found that enzyme in the cerebellum affected by copper deficiency more serious than brains. Since the cerebellum is the ability to control the movement of the site, reducing enzyme activity may cause poor coordination of movements of young animals.

Experts suggest that pregnant women and breastfeeding women intake of foods rich in copper. Copper in diet is the best source of male which help us raise the seafood and animals such as the liver, such as whole grains, nuts, seeds and beans are also good sources.

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Nine months of calcium supplements

May 19, 2012 Jacinto Renneker

In antenatal care, physicians often prescribe some tablets or active calcium, and charged in pregnant women insist on taking. , Puzzled by many pregnant women: heard of kids need calcium supplements, pregnant women why calcium supplements do? after pregnancy can lose good nutrition also follow, where calcium deficiency can occur that? calcium deficiency causes serious consequences?

　　Women effects of calcium deficiency

In General, adult women in vivo calcium-containing about 1000 grams, which constitute the body’s musculoskeletal system and 99% teeth, 1% main body involved in a variety of physical activities. Inadequate calcium intake during pregnancy when there is a mild deficiency of calcium, mobilization of matrix calcium in the bones, to maintain a normal blood calcium concentrations. If the parent CA deficiency serious, can cause muscle spasms, cause leg cramps and contraction of the hands and feet can also lead to osteoporosis in pregnant women, cause osteomalacia. Since the 50% of calcium in the bones of the fetus is accumulated within the last 1 months of pregnancy, if inadequate calcium intake of pregnant women in late pregnancy or preterm, can lead to calcium deficiency of newborn convulsion or cause congenital rickets. 

Recent studies also show that calcium deficiency easily induced preterm birth in pregnant women can also result in pregnancy-induced hypertension, bring life-threatening to the mother and infant. 

　　Diet and calcium deficiency

To normal physiological function, body needs a day some amount of inorganic salt, calcium requirement is the physiological metabolism than larger inorganic salts. A normal adult women, daily required calcium 600~800 mg. During pregnancy, greatly increases the calcium requirement, the entire pregnancy calcium will be about 40 grams. Because of early pregnancy in the womb of calcium retention was minimal, the middle period of pregnancy was not much, most within 3 months of accumulated in late pregnancy. Starting from 7 months pregnant, retention 20~300 mg of calcium a day. 

Food nutritive compositions, many foods contain calcium, with maximum milk and milk content and per 100 ml calcium in milk of about 1200 mg. Due to economic conditions and eating habits are different, in the Western developed countries, consumption of milk, butter, cheese and other dairy products quite popular, is the basic food for pregnant women, so it is difficult to cause calcium deficiency. In China, the average daily volume of milk of pregnant women not more than 1 bottle (200 ml). To meet daily calcium intake of 1200 mg for at least 5 bottles of drinking milk. Visible, 1 bottle of milk for drinking far from enough to meet the needs of the body, you need to make up through other channels of calcium intake. In addition, many pregnant women as well as a partial eclipse learning guide, which further reduce calcium intake. The doctors argued that calcium supplementation in the second trimester of pregnant women should start.

How calcium supplementation in pregnant women?

Pregnant women throughout takes 40 grams of calcium during pregnancy, most of which are accumulated within 3 months of pregnancy. Within this 3 month need calcium supplements every day 1. 2 g. Rich calcium content in milk 1 kg milk with calcium 1. 2 g. Human 30% live on milk in developed countries, essentially the calcium deficiency in pregnant women. Women could eat 2.5015 million g of milk every day, amount of calcium intake is inadequate, but pregnant women has sufficient calcium in the bone marrow storage, easily mobilized from the bone marrow, while pregnant women on calcium absorption is increased, therefore, generally not calcium deficiency in pregnant women of the first fetal, neonatal nor calcium deficiency. In the third trimester, some pregnant women appear leg cramps, calcium supplementation may make the symptoms disappear, usually calcium supplements available from the following 3 aspects.

(1) early and late drinks milk every day 250 grams, about 600 mg calcium supplements.

(2) eat calcium rich foods, such as bone soup, fish, shrimp, etc.

(3) calcium supplementation, preferably with absorbable calcium.

If the above (1) (2) adequate, Basic does not require calcium supplementation; pregnant women that do not like to drink milk, you can add easy absorption of calcium 600 mg per day.

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Pregnancy diet taboo

May 19, 2012 Kemberly Wehrli

1. avoid abortion-eating aquatic products. Many aquatic products have the effect of huoxue ruanjian, eating early pregnancy will cause adverse effects. Such as crabs, turtles, seaweed, and so on. Crabs of the cold, and activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, particularly crab-claw, have a significant role in abortion; the sea with a soft effect of Jian San Jie; turtle has a strong effect of activating blood collaterals, Sanyu blocks, hence the disadvantages of abortion.

2. avoid eating sliding profits of cold sliding profits. Like Auricularia Auricula, Hawthorn, chufa, Mi Ren, purslane, on early pregnancy has certain effects. If pharmacological experiment proves, Mi Ren on uterine fibroids have excitatory effects, can promote uterine contractions, thus induced abortions as well.

3. bogey hot food. According to the used principle of the prenatal Yi Qing, pregnant women should avoid eating hot food, hot food can make human body heat and increase that obstruct blood fetal body poly, that stuff like mutton, dog meat, venison, chicken, Sparrow, seahorses, coriander, lychee, longan, taste, almond, etc.

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Pregnant women eat fish easier due to excessive mental retardation

May 19, 2012 Loma Hanle

Hong Kong researchers to thousands of newborn babies and their mothers were a two-year investigation. Survey results show that term and a large number of pregnant women eat fish, will absorb the mercury content of fish body, and the placenta to the fetus. Coupled with new-born babies excrete less capable, so that mercury would easily accumulated in vivo, which may affect brain development of infants, mental retardation.

Therefore, females do not excessive eating fish during pregnancy, average 2~7 kg is suitable to eat.

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Pregnancy Mommy don’t overdose cod liver oil

May 19, 2012 Loma Hanle

Yurong pregnant, the whole family happy. However, we didn’t think, but she gave birth to a deformed fetus: small head, collapsed nose, ear broken on one side, and it’s an “ugly”. Later cause found, root cause lies in too much of the original teratogenic on taking fish oil pills.

Early pregnancy women with an overdose of vitamin a, can cause serious fetal congenital defects. Researchers found that daily intake of vitamin A1 million international units or above (is almost 4 times the recommended amount) of women, the delivery of babies at birth there are malformations of the head, face, heart and brain. Yurong under her mother’s arrangements after pregnancy taking cod liver oil 3 times a day, 2 pills each time, had been serving a full term. But cod liver oil bottle is labeled: vitamin A1 units per pill. In other words, yurong vitamin A6 units a day, exceeds the recommended amount of more than 20 times, it is no wonder that kids have so many flaws. Scientists pointed out that proper intake of vitamin a during pregnancy, fetal growth and development would be useful, but international units of vitamin a intake of less than 8,000 a day. If eating animal liver, have vitamin drink too much, may also cause birth defects, deserves high priority.

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