Pregnant women can eat watermelon pregnant women eat watermelon precautions

   in summer, watermelon is one of the delicacies for people to relieve summer heat, and many pregnant mothers also like to eat it. So can pregnant women eat watermelons? Of course, pregnant women can eat watermelon, the water content of watermelon is more than 94%, and it is also rich in glucose, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin D and so on, which has high nutritional value. Pregnant women eating watermelon can not only play the role of invigorating body and relieving thirst, clearing heat and relieving summer heat, laxation and diuresis, but also treat summer fever, head distension and chest tightness, thirst and dry pharynx, short red urine and sore throat, mouth sores and other diseases.

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Benefits of    pregnant women eating watermelons:

   pregnant women eat some watermelons during pregnancy, which can not only supplement the nutritional consumption of the body, but also better satisfy the nutritional intake of the fetus.

   in the early pregnancy to eat some watermelons, can promote body mass and quench thirst, eliminate greasy and eliminate annoyance, also have a better effect on antiemetic.

   at the end of pregnancy, pregnant women often have varying degrees of edema and elevated blood pressure, often eat watermelon, not only can diuresis detumescence, but also reduce blood pressure, which is also beneficial to the health of pregnant women.

   watermelons can also increase milk secretion, so it is good for pregnant women to eat some watermelons.

   but need to pay attention to, watermelon cold, eat too much easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, eat too much easy to cause abdominal distension, diarrhea, loss of appetite and other diseases, so pregnant women should eat appropriate amount of melon. In addition, do not eat ice watermelon, just out of the refrigerator ice watermelon temperature is too low, pregnant women eat easy to cause uterine contractions, increase the risk of miscarriage.

Precautions for    pregnant women to eat watermelons watermelon cold polysaccharides, there are many points for attention when pregnant women eat watermelons:

   1. Pregnant women should eat the right amount of melon.

Although    watermelon has many advantages, it is not for everyone to eat, let alone unlimited. Watermelon is cool, eating too much can easily cause abdominal distension, diarrhea and other diseases. And watermelons are high in sugar. If you eat too much watermelon, you will eat too much sugar. Due to physiological changes in the endocrine of pregnant women, the relative shortage of insulin in the body reduces the stabilizing effect on blood sugar, resulting in high concentration of sugar in the blood, resulting in gestational diabetes, which is an important cause of miscarriage and preterm delivery. Therefore, pregnant women can not eat too much watermelon.

   2. Pregnant women should not eat melons before or after meals

A large amount of water in    watermelons will dilute gastric juice, eating before and after meals will affect the digestion and absorption of food, and eating a lot of watermelons before meals will occupy the volume of the stomach, greatly reducing the intake of a variety of nutrients during meals.

   3. Pregnant women should not eat "iced watermelons"

In order to avoid causing gastrointestinal diseases,    should choose fresh and ripe watermelons when eating watermelons, especially those refrigerated in the refrigerator. If the temperature is too low ice watermelon, pregnant women after eating may cause uterine contractions, serious may cause premature delivery, and even endanger the life of the fetus. In addition, frozen watermelons after cutting are easy to breed bacteria, and pregnant women are prone to gastrointestinal diseases after eating. Pregnant women are advised to eat fresh, freshly cut room temperature watermelons.