Once, a mother accompanied her daughter to a pre-pregnancy consultation. When I mentioned that we should pay attention to the diet during pregnancy preparations, the mother, who was about the same age as me, immediately started chatting: \”I said your doctors just like to make things up, and there is nothing wrong with the child.\” Things should be eaten and drank, how can there be so many taboos? Who in our youth would have thought about preparing for a baby? What preparations were there? I entered the bridal chamber in a daze, and it was only 3 months before I found out I was pregnant. This child has only been studying for a few days, and he insists on coming for pre-pregnancy consultation. What is the purpose of consultation? Aren’t the kittens and puppies at home also born in litters?…\”
My daughter quickly interrupted her mother\’s tirade and apologized to me seriously: \”Doctor, my mother is not good at talking. Don\’t take it to heart. Please tell me what I should do before getting pregnant? What can I do?\” Eat, and what not to eat.\”
In fact, this is also the key to preparing for pregnancy. I have talked about a lot of what you should eat during pregnancy preparation, so now I will talk about what foods are not conducive to pregnancy. In fact, this principle is easy to grasp. What I have repeatedly emphasized is to pay attention to nutritional balance, which means that junk food without nutrition and things that are harmful to us should be avoided.
The dietary principles during pregnancy preparation are: the food structure should be reasonable, easy to digest and absorb, reduce nutrient loss, process and cook appropriately, and have a reasonable mix of staple and non-staple food.
Try not to eat these foods
Pickled foods: Pickled foods contain a large amount of nitrite, phenylpyrene, etc., which are very harmful to the body. As expectant fathers and mothers during pregnancy preparation, in order to ensure that they provide healthy sperm and Eggs, especially women with allergies, should avoid eating such foods to avoid irreversible effects on the fetus. Moreover, research has found that eating pickled foods during pregnancy may lead to miscarriage, premature birth, and even fetal malformations.
Foods rich in caffeine: Couples must avoid eating foods containing caffeine during pregnancy preparations food. Excessive consumption of coffee, tea and other caffeinated beverages and foods will not only affect women’s physical health, will also affect the quality of male sperm. Studies have found that caffeine can change the ratio of estrogen and progesterone in women to a certain extent, and also indirectly inhibits the implantation and development of fertilized eggs in the uterus. For men, a small amount of coffee can refresh themselves and promote sexual desire, but drinking too much will affect the parasympathetic nerves, resulting in reduced sexual desire.
Canned food: Canned food usually adds a large number of additives during the production process, such as artificial Colorants, flavors, preservatives, etc. Moreover, the nutritional value of canned food is not high. After being processed at high temperatures, the vitamins and other nutrients in the food have been destroyed to a certain extent. Regular consumption will affect the nutritional balance of the body, thus affecting the quality of sperm and eggs.
Alcoholic drinks: The main component of alcohol is ethanol, which can reduce catecholamines in the male body. When the concentration increases, the blood vessels will spasm, resulting in testicular underdevelopment or even testicular atrophy, and the spermatogenic function will undergo structural changes. Excessive drinking in women can lead to irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, variation in egg production, no sexual desire or cessation of ovulation, etc. At the same time, studies have found that drinking alcohol is an important cause of infant deformities and mental retardation. This is because alcohol can pass through the placenta and enter the fetus without any hindrance, making the alcohol concentration in the fetus the same as that in the mother. And alcohol is very harmful to the brain and heart. If a woman drinks alcohol during pregnancy, her baby\’s IQ will be lower than the average level, and there will also be slow reaction and mental retardation. At the same time, there is a very famous mouse experiment in the Department of Urology, in which the experimental mice were given liquor every day. After two weeks, it was observed that the testicles of the mice were irreversibly damaged. Alcohol can pass through the testicles and directly damage sperm, reducing the number and motility of sperm, and increasing the rate of deformed sperm and dead sperm.
Fried food: Foods such as French fries, potato chips, and fried pastries are not only difficult to digest, but It also contains carcinogens that affect your health. Eating too much of these foods can easily lead to obesity, affect male sexual function, and cause endocrine disorders and other problems in women.
Cottonseed oil: Long-term consumption of cottonseed oil can cause people to suffer from sunburn. General weakness or less sweating, skin burning and flushing, palpitation and shortness of breath, dizziness, numbness of limbs, and loss of appetite. Even more serious is the damage to the reproductive system. In men, all sperm are killed in a short period of time and gradually disappear from semen; in women,Can cause amenorrhea or uterine atrophy. Therefore, couples of childbearing age should not consume it for a long time.
Drug: Under normal circumstances, there is a gap between the testicular tissue and the blood flowing through the testicles. The protective layer is medically called the blood seminiferous tubule barrier. This barrier prevents certain substances in the blood from entering the testicles. However, many drugs can pass through the blood seminiferous tubule barrier and affect the healthy combination of sperm and eggs. The impact of drugs on the egg and fetus cannot be underestimated. Therefore, expectant mothers should use drugs with caution during pregnancy preparation and pregnancy, and expectant fathers should ensure that they use drugs with caution during pregnancy preparation.
Artificially contaminated food: Food will undergo various processes from raw material production to consumption. Many necessary links may be contaminated to varying degrees, causing harm to the human body and thus affecting the quality of sperm and eggs. Therefore, we should take good care of our diet to prevent food contamination. We should try to choose fresh and natural foods and avoid foods containing additives, pigments, and preservatives. Vegetables should be fully washed, and fruits should be peeled before eating. Avoid pesticide contamination.
In addition, expectant fathers and expectant mothers should also have taboos due to their different roles.
Foods tabooed by expectant fathers
Beans: Dr. George Chavarro of Harvard University followed 99 men from 2000 to 2006 and found that men who ate soy products every day had only 41 million sperm per milliliter of semen, which was significantly lower than those who ate less soy products. products for men. Therefore, eating less than three times a week and only eating 100 grams each time can avoid this situation.
High-protein meat foods: Most young men prefer meat, although sperm Production requires high-quality protein, but if the intake of meat food is too high, it will inevitably lead to insufficient vitamin intake, which will easily form an acidic body and affect pregnancy.
Sunflower seeds: The protein in sunflower seeds contains ingredients that inhibit testicles, which can cause testicular atrophy and affect normal fertility. Function, men should not eat too much.
Garlic:Garlic has an obvious effect of killing sperm. If men eat too much, it will have an adverse effect on fertility, so they should not eat too much.
Celery: Celery has the effect of inhibiting sperm production, thereby reducing the number of sperm and causing impotence. Eat celery often It can cause a decrease in male sperm count, but it can return to normal sperm count after 16 weeks of stopping eating.
Beer :When the sperm comes into contact with the egg, it will release certain substances that break through the outer membrane of the egg and penetrate into the egg to fertilize it. Beer contains hormone-like chemicals, and sperm only need to come into contact with a very small amount of these chemicals. , it will consume energy prematurely, lose the ability to penetrate the outer membrane of the egg, and reduce the binding rate of sperm and egg.
Foods tabooed by expectant mothers
High-sugar foods: During pregnancy preparations, expectant mothers should pay special attention and try to avoid eating high-sugar foods to avoid causing Sugar metabolism disorder, and even becoming a potential diabetic patient. After pregnancy, if pregnant women continue to maintain the habit of eating high-sugar foods, gestational diabetes will occur. Diabetes during pregnancy will not only harm the health of the pregnant woman, but also seriously affect the body The healthy development and growth of the fetus may lead to premature birth, miscarriage or stillbirth in severe cases.
Carrots: As we all know, carrots are rich in nutrients and contain rich carotene, multiple vitamins and other nutrients that are beneficial to the human body. However, American gynecological experts have found that after women eat too much carrots, the large amount of carotene they consume will cause Amenorrhea and inhibits the normal ovulation function of the ovaries. Therefore, women who are preparing to become pregnant should not eat more carrots.
Barbecue: It has been found that the children of a small number of women who like to eat barbecue are more likely to be mentally retarded, paralyzed or deformed. Studies have found that these women and their deformed children are all victims of Toxoplasma gondii infection. When people come into contact with livestock and poultry infected with toxoplasmosis and eat undercooked meat from these livestock and poultry, they are easily infected with Toxoplasma gondii. Therefore, women who are preparing to become pregnant should also eat less barbecued meat and raw meat.
ThisThe text is provided by Baidu Reading. Excerpted from \”Very Good Pregnancy: You Can Get Pregnant by Doing This\” Author: Yu Yue\’e