Sometimes I go out to eat seafood with my friends. I've always liked sea urchins. Now that I am pregnant, can't I eat sea urchins?

Can pregnant women eat sea urchins?

Pregnant women can eat sea urchins.

Benefits of eating sea urchins for pregnant women: Sea urchins are the general name of echinoderms. Sea urchins are invertebrates. Every 100g of fresh sea urchin yellow contains 4 1g of protein, 32.7g of fat, vitamins A and D, and nutrients such as phosphorus, iron and calcium. Sea urchins also have medicinal functions. It tastes salty and flat, and has the effects of relieving pain, softening hard mass, removing blood stasis and swelling, clearing away heat and diminishing inflammation, invigorating spleen and kidney, relaxing muscles and tendons and promoting blood circulation. Nourishing yin and strengthening yang. Sea urchin eggs are rich in hormones, so eating them has the effects of nourishing yin, tonifying kidney and beauty beauty for pregnant women. In addition, the high protein contained in sea urchin eggs is easily absorbed by the human body, and its own taste is particularly delicious, which can promote saliva secretion, stimulate appetite and have a good nourishing effect. It has good dietotherapy and drug therapy for pregnant women and helps to improve immunity.

Pregnant women should pay attention to eating sea urchins: eat a small amount, not raw. Now the mercury content in seafood is getting higher and higher. Pregnant women and lactating women often eat seafood (four times a week, each time100g), which will affect the nervous system development of the fetus and newborn, and some symptoms will not appear until the child is 7 years old or even 14 years old. For pregnant women, they often eat a large number of marine fish with high mercury content, and harmful mercury substances ingested by the mother will enter the fetus through the placenta, causing damage to the brain, liver, kidney and other organ systems of the fetus.