Iodine - a very important element for the health of everyone, but it is especially valuable during pregnancy. To ensure that the child is born healthy and without intellectual disability, it is necessary to make the right yodoprofilaktiku.
According to statistics, about 85% of pregnant women are deficient in iodine during pregnancy. The reason is that just from the beginning of pregnancy the embryo grows at times the need for thyroid hormones. It turns out that the woman's body must first completely cover the needs of the child, and then his own. Is a huge burden on the thyroid gland, to cope with which it alone can not, so it is essential the correct prevention of iodine deficiency during pregnancy.
If the fetus will not receive the right amount of thyroid hormones, it violated its development, primarily mental. For example, if during pregnancy a woman has a high iodine deficiency, then the light may appear a child with a diagnosis of "cretinism". Cretinism - it is an endocrine disorder caused by lack of thyroid hormones, which leads to delayed mental and physical development: hearing, vision, speech, and so on. And these effects are irreversible.
Iq problem in children and difficulties in learning
Today's children are often very restless, difficulty learning new skills, poorly stored information, experience learning difficulties at school and in adapting to the new conditions. Parents can associate it with anything, but not iodine deficiency in the child's body, but in vain.
"In September, the son went to the first class, and from the very first days of any complexity: he did not want to sit behind a desk, I could not tell what they were doing in the classroom, and a poem of four lines for the morning we learned almost a week. I'm beginning to sound the alarm and called the pediatrician, who said that this is normal and so passes adaptation to school, but nevertheless appointed a urine test for iodine content. The results surprised everyone at the rate of school-age children - 120 micrograms my son was only 87 micrograms. Pediatrician appointed treatment - iodine preparation - and the situation has improved before our eyes. Within a few months, the child has become an active and cheerful, well-remembered information and fun to study "- says Natalia, mother grader Elijah.
This example is very significant in the sense that iodine deficiency suffers virtually the entire population of Ukraine from toddlers to adults, which is why prevention is so important. This, at first glance, a small problem, as the lack of iodine can have a disastrous effect on the body.
Is there a problem of iodine deficiency in Ukraine?
WHO data suggest that more than a third of the world population lives in conditions of natural iodine deficiency, of which about 31% - children of school age. Scientists have shown that children who live in areas where there is a deficiency of iodine, Iq level of about 10-15 points lower than those who live in the area with a normal iodine levels.
Ukraine also refers to a number of countries with iodine deficiency, according to the research, a deficiency of this element is observed in Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Ternopil, Volyn, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy and Rivne areas.
In many ways this is a problem with the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, so virtually every Ukrainian living in iodine deficiency.
This is a problem for absolutely all the inhabitants of Ukraine, from small to large, from baby to pensioner, so the proper prevention of iodine deficiency is a must.
How to remedy the lack of iodine in the body?
In order to maintain an adequate level of iodine in the body, you need every day to eat food products with its high content of: sea fish and seafood, cod liver oil, eggs, green onions, spinach, persimmon, pineapple guava, melon, buckwheat, seaweed, iodized salt (remember that the iodine at a high temperature evaporates, however it must be added already in the finished dish) and others. But to remedy the lack of iodine products alone will not work, and a pregnant woman, and did not eat that amount of food, because the daily rate of iodine during pregnancy is approximately 250 micrograms.
Lack of iodine in the body is very dangerous and can lead to irreversible consequences in the mother's body and the body of the unborn baby. Therefore, it is important to be tested for thyroid hormones and conduct yodoprofilaktiku still at the planning stage, and then maintenance therapy all 9 months of pregnancy.
In this case, the aid comes Yodomarin® - German iodine medication daily for proper prevention of iodine deficiency in children, pregnant and lactating. It is the only German drug iodine in Ukraine, with very convenient dosage: 100 micrograms and 200 with the notch on the tablet for the division. During pregnancy and lactation, as a rule, women are prescribed Po 200 mcg cutki, so it is enough to take only one pill per day.
the guarantee of health of your child and his harmonious mental development depends on the amount of iodine in his body, so be sure Take care to the prevention of iodine deficiency during the pregnancy, breast-feeding, as well as preschool and school age child. In addition, this valuable element is required, and all adults, because often chronic fatigue, menstrual disorders, anemia, and weight can be caused by lack of iodine is in the body. Come to your health and your baby's health responsibly, to avoid problems. Be healthy!
