Oxygen and nutrients in blood are transported to various organs and tissues of human body through hemoglobin. The content of hemoglobin is directly related to the health of expectant mothers and fetuses, which means that anemia will occur when hemoglobin in the blood is reduced to a certain extent.
In order to ensure that pregnant mothers provide enough blood for their babies, it is very important for pregnant mothers to pay attention to iron supplementation at ordinary times. Otherwise, anemia is prone to occur during pregnancy, which will also affect the supply of fetal nutrition and indirectly affect the healthy development of the fetus.
Under normal circumstances, for pregnant mothers, mild iron deficiency anemia has no obvious symptoms. When the pregnant mother has obvious dizziness, listlessness and pallor, the anemia degree of the pregnant mother has reached the intermediate level.
Therefore, in the prenatal examination during pregnancy, almost every blood routine examination is available, and many pregnant mothers can't understand why they need blood routine examination every time. One of the reasons is to monitor the level of hemoglobin, and judge whether the pregnant mother is anemic through the level of hemoglobin.
Misunderstanding of iron supplementation: Brown sugar and red dates can replenish blood, which is not reliable! I chatted with my colleagues a while ago. Her sister-in-law was pregnant and was diagnosed with anemia at 20 weeks of pregnancy. The doctor asked her to take supplements to correct it. Mother-in-law thinks that eating red dates to replenish blood makes her sister-in-law eat nearly a catty of red dates almost every day. After eating for a week, my sister-in-law wanted to vomit when she saw red dates, but she really couldn't eat them. Her mother-in-law accompanied her to the hospital to ask the doctor, and as a result, her mother-in-law was criticized by the doctor.
Many people think? Brown sugar and red dates? It can replenish blood. In fact, the iron content in brown sugar and red dates is not only low, but also not heme iron, nor is it the main component of supplementing iron and enriching blood in the diet. Eating too much can easily lead to overweight and abnormal blood sugar because of their high sugar content.
Therefore, after pregnancy, expectant mothers should correctly eat brown sugar and red dates, and can't eat a lot of brown sugar and red dates for blood supplement, nor can they be found out? Iron deficiency anemia? Later, by eating brown sugar and red dates to correct it, not only can not make up much iron, but it will also affect the health of pregnant mothers and fetuses, delay the illness, and may also eat high blood sugar.
Pregnant women should eat more of these foods to supplement iron. For pregnant women with iron deficiency anemia, pregnant women with mild anemia have the best dietary supplement effect. They can eat more foods rich in iron, pay attention to supplement high-quality protein and vitamins, and promote the absorption of iron.
1. Eat more foods rich in iron.
First recommendation? Animal food? Such as hemoglobin, such as animal liver, red meat (cattle, sheep, pigs), animal blood, etc. These foods are rich in heme iron and have a particularly high digestibility in the human body. At the same time, they contain high-quality protein, which is also helpful to promote the absorption of iron. During pregnancy, you can eat about100g of red meat every day, or you can eat animal liver or blood twice a week. Iron supplementation has a good effect.
Followed by plant food, rich in iron fungus, soybeans, kelp, jujube. However, the absorption and utilization rate of iron in these plant foods is relatively low. Therefore, from the perspective of iron supplementation, it is more recommended to eat red meat.
2. Supplement high-quality protein and vitamin C at the same time.
High-quality protein food helps to promote the absorption of iron. In addition to meat, there are eggs and milk, and vitamin C should also be supplemented, mainly by eating fresh vegetables and fruits, such as cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes, kiwi fruit and jujube. Eating more of these foods also helps to promote the absorption of iron.
3. Eat less foods that affect iron absorption.
Tannin-rich substances such as strong tea and chocolate in daily life will affect the absorption of iron; Other vegetables containing oxalic acid will also affect the absorption of iron, such as spinach, which can be boiled with water before eating.
However, if pregnant women are found to be moderately severe anemia after examination by doctors, and the food supplement can not be corrected in time, they need to take iron supplements, and they should take them according to the doctor's advice, and they can't supplement themselves. When I was pregnant with a baby, I found it in the second trimester of pregnancy? Iron deficiency anemia? At that time, the doctor suggested supplementing iron directly, combined with diet. It took almost two months to correct it.
During pregnancy, expectant mothers must have a reasonable and balanced diet, and don't be picky about food, which can effectively prevent malnutrition caused by insufficient food intake. Only when the expectant mother is healthy can she provide good food? Earth? Give birth to a healthy baby.