Food complements/Folic acid

Food complements/Folic acid

If you are pregnant – and even if you reach only the stage where you consider a pregnancy – it should be informed on the folic acid. This type of vitamin B is of an major importance in the prevention of certain malformations of birth on the level of the brain and the spinal-cord, which one calls the anomalies of the tube neural (ATN). The tube neural starts with a fine layer of cells which is closed for normally forming a tube which gives rise to thereafter the brain and to the spinal-cord. The tube is closed again from here the 29e day which follows the design – before even as many women realized that they were pregnant – but if it is not closed again correctly, of the anomalies of the tube neural occur. This is why it is so important to take complements in folic acid before even falling pregnant.

The women in good health likely to fall pregnant should take a vitaminized complement containing 0,4 Mg (400 micrograms) of folic acid per day. The majority of the women have a contribution in folic acid which one estimates at 0,2 Mg when it comes only from one food containing seeds, of green vegetables (spinaches, broccoli), of meat (liver) and leguminous (lenses and beans). So to take a complement is the only means of making sure that one takes enough folic acid. One recommends to the women diabetics, to epileptics or who have family antecedents of ATN, and with those having already had a child reached of ATN, to take 5 Mg of folic acid per day under medical supervision.

Once a positive test of pregnancy confirmed your pregnancy, it is advised to increase your catch of folic acid daily up to 0,6 minimum Mg, but do not exceed the amount of 1 Mg without in speaking before with your doctor. You will need more folic acid during your pregnancy in order to contributing to the production of additional blood cells and allowing the fetus and the placenta to grow quickly. If you plan to nurse, it is recommended to continue to take complements in folic acid after the childbirth.