"Fetal poison should be removed in 38 weeks", "There is a yellow scab on the newborn baby's head, which is fetal poison" ... Speaking of fetal poison, I believe many mothers are familiar with it. Many mothers began to eat all kinds of foods that claimed to remove fetal toxicity during pregnancy, such as mung beans and goose eggs. In fact, the most frequently asked question in Wukong's Q&A is whether eating goose eggs during pregnancy can remove fetal poison. I can't. Another question is whether the newborn is dirty after birth or not. It's not fetal poison, it's fetal fat. It will fall off naturally.

After pregnancy, it is difficult for expectant mothers to adapt to various physiological changes brought about by pregnancy in a short time. At the same time, when the food intake increases, the excretion of metabolites is abnormal, which leads to the accumulation of metabolites in the body and the formation of harmful substances. These harmful substances are called "fetal poison". Fetal poison, a term in traditional Chinese medicine, mainly refers to the toxins in the mother's body passed to the child through pregnancy, which leads to some abnormalities in the newborn's body at birth.

Modern medicine generally refers to severe postpartum acute allergy such as acne rash and furuncle, which is often considered to be related to the mother's eating mood during pregnancy. Fetal poison is the unified name for infant jaundice, eczema, thrush and acne rash. In the past, most people only thought that jaundice was fetal poison. In fact, fetal poison includes several common diseases of infants. Therefore, it is very important to remove fetal poison. When the family is happy, the parents-in-law who are far away from Haikou also come to help with the children. In the last two days, Ms. Lin found that the baby's face was red and she was crying all the time. There were some small red rashes on her face and body. Because of the hot and humid climate in the south, many expectant mothers also belong to the hot and dry group.

Therefore, pregnant women must do a good job of eliminating fetal toxins before delivery, otherwise the skin of the baby is prone to sores and rashes after birth. So, what is fetal poison? And it peaks in 5-7 days, which may last for several weeks. This is mainly because the baby's liver is not mature enough to remove bilirubin from the blood (bilirubin comes from the normal destruction of red blood cells during metabolism).