Prenatal Vitamins

Prenatal vitamins are an important source of folate and other vital nutrients during pregnancy. And many women, with the popularity of herbal medicines, drugs, other herbs during pregnancy. Some of these plants, which may have taken before, for an existing condition. Others can take to help with some physical problems that go with pregnancy. These dietary supplements and food should be avoided during pregnancy to avoid potential problemsthe child's health.

Quinine – Quinine is found in many beverages such as tonic water, and is popular for its slightly bitter. But it was found that a woman who more than 1 liter of tonic water a day, while she was pregnant had a baby withdrawal symptoms when they are born suffering. Tremors this nerve were within one day be born, who had disappeared two months later. Germany BfR (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) recommends thatin pregnant women drinking quinine, although small amounts of quinine in them, as a cure, and prevent them as a precaution during pregnancy.

Ginseng – One of the more than 20 active ingredients of ginseng have been found by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital to be a potential source of concern for pregnant women. These researchers measured the effect of the active fetal development in rats. AndThey found that with the dose of respect, the embryonic development of rats was affected. The highest dose, a higher level of abnormalities according to the markers for the development of their study are used.

Now, this study could be made in mouse embryos, and then translated into a similar effect in humans. And only examined the effects of an active ingredient of ginseng, a ginsenoside called RB1. Ginseng has more than 20 ginsenosides, and other studies have found that these have alldifferent actions.

One of the problems with the study of the ingredients in herbal medicines is that the whole herbal extract from a very different set of a single ingredient can have. And 'because of how active, both working together and against each other. These two aspects, the fact that the survey was not conducted on humans, and not to measure the overall impact of the whole extract of ginseng has not, does not mean that its results should be handled with care. As a safety deviceimportant at this moment, at least it is better to avoid ginseng supplements in the first quarter, as the authors of the study show, and probably for the rest of the pregnancy. Ginseng, but it certainly should not be branded as dangerous as a result of this research provides only a preliminary conclusion in the overall context, and points more than the way in which further research should be done.

Ginkgo Biloba – Ginkgo biloba is another supplement that is best avoided whenpregnant. Researchers at Wayne State University in Detroit as one of the ingredients of ginkgo biloba in the placenta of women who took supplements of ginkgo. This special ingredient, an alkaloid called colchicine may be fatal in high doses, but the drugs, has a great anti-inflammatory effect. Other research has found that cochicine fetal development may be compromised. The potential problem with taking ginkgo supplements regularly during pregnancy, is that colchicine can accumulate inuterus, such as caffeine, when taken for longer than the maximum recommended. The researchers stressed that no link had been established in the study between the ginkgo and complications of pregnancy, the study took into account only the levels of colchicine in the womb.

References:
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