About four or five months after pregnancy, pregnant women will have symptoms of anemia or calcium deficiency, so they need to supplement iron and calcium according to the situation, which will relax the body and be beneficial to the development of fetal brain and bones.
However, when the pregnant mother went to the hospital for a checkup or went shopping in the maternal and infant store, the doctor told her to supplement vitamin E and multivitamins, and the shopping guide in the maternal and infant store told her to supplement DHA, which made it difficult for the pregnant mother to ride a tiger. Do these supplements need to be supplemented or not? Is it really as good as advertised for fetal development?
tocopherol
Under normal circumstances, as long as you pay attention to your daily diet, there is no particular picky eater or partial eclipse, and vitamin E is not lacking. Only under special circumstances do you need to supplement vitamin E.
According to the Dietary Guidelines for China Residents, the recommended intake of vitamin E for healthy adult women in China is 65438±0.4mg per day, and the extra increase of vitamin E before pregnancy, early pregnancy, middle pregnancy, late pregnancy and lactation is zero, that is, there is no need to supplement vitamin E.
If there are special circumstances, such as threatened abortion symptoms, the doctor will recommend vitamin E supplementation. At the seventh week of pregnancy, signs of early abortion were found. The doctor prescribed a bottle of vitamin E, which requires 1 capsule a day. I shot 10 days, and I didn't shoot again.
Vitamin E, also known as "tocopherol", is used to prevent miscarriage and premature delivery. Abortion is easy in the first three months of pregnancy. If there are some signs of miscarriage, it can be supplemented at the doctor's suggestion. If everything is all right, it is not necessary.
If excessive intake of vitamin E, poisoning symptoms will appear, such as hypertension, nausea, dizziness, fatigue, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms.
In fact, vitamin E is not uncommon in foods, such as common edible oils such as peanut oil and corn oil, green leafy vegetables such as spinach and cabbage, nuts such as walnuts and hazelnuts, and protein foods such as lean meat and eggs. We usually supplement vitamin E unconsciously.
Therefore, under the guidance of a doctor, take a proper amount of vitamin E when necessary, and don't supplement it casually.
docosahexenoic acid
DHA is a fatty acid needed for the development of fetal brain nervous system. Fish and other aquatic products are rich in DHA. If you eat fish and aquatic products in a balanced diet, you won't lack DHA, so there is no need to wipe it eastward.
I was pregnant twice and didn't supplement DHA. I just supplement it with food. Teacher Fan Zhihong, a doctor of food science, said: Cheap fish such as yellow croaker, saury, sardine, Spanish mackerel and pomfret all contain high DHA. Eating more of these fish at ordinary times can completely meet the needs of the body.
At present, there is actually no accurate data to show that pregnant women taking DHA can improve the IQ of their fetuses. So, don't care too much about DHA supplementation.
Multivitamin tablets
Now doctors generally recommend taking multivitamins after pregnancy. I didn't start taking multivitamins until I was 5 months pregnant. I only ate 1 bottle. Many pregnant mothers have taken multivitamins, and it's okay to take them, but don't pay attention to your diet just because you eat them.
If the pregnant mother has poor appetite and insufficient nutrition in the first trimester, proper supplementation of multivitamins can supplement the body's nutrition and be beneficial to the fetus. Studies have shown that multivitamin supplementation is very beneficial to prevent low birth weight infants.
Therefore, if the pregnant mother's diet is not very rich at ordinary times, she can supplement a variety of vitamins appropriately.
In short, I think the best way to supplement vitamin E and DHA depends on diet, such as eating more fresh fruits and vegetables to ensure a balanced diet during pregnancy, which can not only supplement vitamin E and DHA that we think are important, but also supplement other nutrients. Why not?