Organisms mother and baby are inextricably linked for nine months. Any violation of the disease and the mother in her body will affect the growth and development of the child. It is therefore important during the preparation for pregnancy to fix your health and especially your metabolism Improves metabolism and losing weight without dieting Which in the future will have to work harder.

How vitamins affect the body expectant mother

Vitamins are involved in metabolism, in the construction of new cells, strengthening the immune system Strengthening the immune system - help the immune system . Some vitamins are especially needed during pregnancy planning. For example, folic acid Folic acid - the value is hard to overestimate   protect the body of the child from the various anomalies. A large amount of folic acid the body needs a woman already in preparation for pregnancy.

Many vitamins and minerals that are recommended in preparation for the pregnancy contain folic acid, many times more than required by normal healthy person. Thus, the need for non-pregnant women folic acid is 200 micrograms per day, and vitamins and minerals for women during pregnancy planning it contains from 400 to 1000 mg.

Folic acid is ingested with food or synthesized by intestinal microflora. Very often, the body not getting enough folic acid, and it is particularly dangerous during pregnancy. Therefore, the problem of women in the period of preparation to conceive a child to fill up the body this necessary vitamin.

Start taking vitamin and mineral supplements should be three months before the start of pregnancy. Select the desired systems, designed for women who plan to become mothers. For example, Materna, vitrum prenatal, Eleven, Pregnavit, multitabs perinanal, komplivit mother alphabet mother's health and others.

All of these vitamins and minerals are needed in the structure in preparation for pregnancy vitamins, macro- and microelements. For example, ascorbic acid and vitamin B12 are necessary for folic acid is better absorbed and does not lead to the development of B12-deficiency anemia. The rest of the vitamins and minerals are also perfectly combined with each other, helping to prepare the woman's body for pregnancy.

But it is not only a woman needs vitamins in this period. The future father should also take vitamin and mineral supplements for successful spermatogenesis, and because of his health depends on the health of the unborn child.

Materna

Materna - a vitamin-mineral complex, which produces pharmaceutical company Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (US - Canada). The complex includes the 13 vitamins (Vitamin A, beta-carotene, vitamin E, D, C, B complex, including B12 and folic acid) and 10 mineral substances (iodine, iron, copper, selenium, calcium, magnesium, molybdenum , manganese, zinc, chromium).

Acceptance of this vitamin-mineral complex is recommended in preparation for pregnancy and during pregnancy in order to redress the lack of vitamins, macro- and microelements, normalizing metabolism.

Materna helps reduce the number of congenital malformations in children, is involved in laying the fetal tissue, the formation of the skeleton, improves the absorption of iron, prepares a woman's body in the process of conceiving and carrying a child.

The mechanism of action is due to the effects of certain Materna vitamins, macro- and microelements, included in its composition. All the components of the drug are chosen so that mutually reinforce each other's action.

Take one tablet of Materna day prescribed by a doctor, as it has contraindications: severe renal dysfunction, concomitant use with other drugs containing vitamin A and D, the high content of calcium and iron in the blood, individual intolerance of components.

Natural Vitamins

You can improve your health and using vitamins and mineral substances of natural origin. For example, a particular body needs folic acid is found in green leafy vegetables, cabbage and Brussels belokachannoy, beets, citrus, lentils. Many it and in some animal products, such as a calf liver. But vitamin B12 is not found in plant foods, much of its beef in beef liver, flounder, milk, Swiss cheese.

The source of ascorbic acid include citrus fruits, currants, strawberries, sweet peppers, tomatoes, spinach. Vitamins A and E, found in vegetable fats, vitamin B1 - in raisins, peas, brewer's yeast, whole grains, B2 - in bananas Bananas: the benefits and harms health , Beef liver, eggs, tuna, B6 - in marine fish, chicken meat, lentils, hazelnuts.

Proper nutrition may "compete" with vitamin-mineral complexes of the impact on the body of a woman who is preparing to become a mother.

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Preventive dental checkups and dental cleaning teeth during pregnancy is not only perfectly safe, and recommended by doctors. Increase in hormone levels during pregnancy can cause bleeding, swelling of the gums and, eventually, lead to infection and only a timely visit to the dentist can help prevent diseases of the teeth and oral cavity (such as periodontitis), which can, in turn, cause complications pregnancy.

Any dental procedure - filling cracks in the enamel, caries treatment Treatment of caries: avoid development , Installation of crowns - must be performed immediately after the discovery of the problem, to reduce the risk of infection. It is best to take care of the health of the teeth in advance - before pregnancy. And during pregnancy, the ideal time for dental treatment is considered to be the second trimester. In the third trimester of dental treatment is better to postpone until the period after the birth, but the problems that require urgent dental care, such as the need to remove a tooth or tooth nerve completely - must be addressed immediately. Aesthetic procedures such as teeth whitening, should be postponed until the postpartum period, in order not to expose your child to even minimal risk.

Security

By and large, any dental procedures during pregnancy is safe: drugs used for anesthesia, do not have any negative impact on child development. Even lidocaine, is most often used for local anesthesia in dentistry, it is safe for the baby, though able to penetrate through the placental barrier. If you are having dental treatment of severe pain, do not give up the extra pain relief.

In some cases, after the treatment of teeth the dentist may prescribe antibiotics Antibiotics - whether they will help you in the foreseeable future?   for the treatment or prevention of infections. Antibiotics penicillin, amoxicillin, clindamycin during pregnancy is safe.

It is also safe for the treatment of dental and X-ray examinations, often anticipating dental procedures. Doses that the body of a pregnant woman receives a single diagnostic procedure is not enough to cause any harm to the developing fetus.

The main development of the fetus continues during the first trimester, so in early pregnancy from dental treatment requiring radiological diagnosis, should be abandoned. If you require dental treatment in the third trimester, the procedure is usually delayed until the baby is born.

How to treat teeth

• To avoid having to visit the dentist during pregnancy is necessary to monitor the health of the teeth: eat right, brush your teeth How to brush your teeth: interesting facts   twice daily flossing
• Not urgent dental procedure is better to postpone the second trimester of pregnancy or the postpartum period - of course, if possible
• Any aesthetic procedures such as teeth whitening Teeth whitening - which option is right for you?   should be postponed for a period after childbirth
• Preventive dental checkups recommended every few months during pregnancy - this will help to avoid the development of serious diseases of the teeth and oral cavity