Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article, I'll talk about taste perversion in pregnant women.
After yesterday's article about taste perversion, they ask more about pregnant women. I will explain in more detail.
In pregnant women, there are three popular variants of taste perversion:
- Geophagy. This aspiration is to eat earth, clay and other dirt.
- Amilophagy. This urge to eat starch, raw rice or flour. They are not supposed to be eaten raw.
- Pagophagia. This striving is ice.
Many people try to eat inedible foods. Most often these are children of preschool age. After them are pregnant women. About 30 - 40% pregnant women complain of taste perversion.
Pica or taste perversion is more common in hot climates. The reason may be a lack of iron or zinc, anemia, celiac disease.
Mechanism
- The simplest explanation is that the body is trying to get the right micronutrient, but not sure where to get it.
- The second explanation is something like a disease. From the lack of trace elements, something happens in the head, the brain begins to work incorrectly, and the woman behaves strangely (eats the earth).
- The third explanation is that the peak may be defensive behavior during pregnancy. Everything seems to be normal, but the body of a pregnant woman is stocked up with trace elements in advance, which will be useful in late pregnancy. And makes me eat earth or flour. True, this hypothesis does not explain the urge to eat icicles. They are low in nutrients.
Many women are shy and hide their peak. Therefore, gynecologists look into their mouths. Literally. Sometimes traces of flour or earth can be seen there.
The pregnancy peak differs from the dietary preferences of pregnant women. It happens that a pregnant woman eats only apples and sneakers. Maybe she's sick, or maybe she doesn't like something else. These are dietary preferences. This behavior can be interrupted.
Pica is often an irresistible desire. It's not just "you want salty". Perversion of taste is very difficult to deal with.
It happens that a woman is specially sent her "native" land from the places where she used to live, because she wants her.
It is advisable for the relatives of a pregnant woman to closely monitor the house. If the hole in the plaster gradually grows, then someone can literally eat it away.
You can notice how a pregnant woman is drooling next to some inedible object. This is an official medical fact. If he swallows saliva, then there is a secret delicacy nearby.
Drooling occurs in the early stages of pregnancy. This is the equivalent of pregnant nausea. It is suspected that this salivation in itself can lead to a perversion of taste. Women seem to seize excess saliva with chalk.
What harm does it do
Such things are unhealthy.
Caffeine can be poisoned by eating coffee grounds.
Some people like cigarette filters. So you can get poisoned with nicotine.
Someone gets burns from eating household chemicals with bleach.
Can be poisoned by inhaling various solvents.
Competition
Sometimes pregnant women, instead of healthy foods, eat so much empty garbage that their baby is born small.
And it also happens that they overeat with raw starch or flour. Then there will be an overload of calories, weight gain and even diabetes.
Clay
It happens that eating clay leads to a lack of vitamins. Remember Smecta? This is clay. Literally the ravine where the Smecta producer digs the clay. So ordinary clay acts like Smecta. It envelops the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines, and disrupts the absorption of vitamins.
Clay also binds potassium. Sometimes its blood level drops literally to muscle cramps and arrhythmias.
Sometimes pregnant women have high blood pressure and swelling from sodium, which they eat with self-rising flour or toothpaste. It will be similar to preeclampsia - a complication of pregnancy. You can go to the hospital.
Pregnant women can damage their teeth from fluoride toothpaste.
It happens that from chewing raw rice or ice, women themselves deteriorate their teeth and jaws.
There was a case when a pregnant woman regularly ate the heads of burnt matches. The child developed hemolysis (erythrocytes burst) and liver damage. It turned out that he was poisoned by potassium chlorate.
These are the pies. Not funny at all.
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