Nutrition and Diet Tips

Without changing his feeding at all, pregnant women should watch what she eats to avoid infections usually not serious but can have serious consequences during this period. What foods are potentially hazardous and the precautions to take?
Listeriosis, toxoplasmosis, that do not succumb to psychosis?

Due to the bacteria listeria, listeriosis results in fever, which can cause unexplained, according to the progress of the pregnancy, miscarriage or premature delivery. Listeria is resistant to temperatures between 4 and 56 ° C, thus it may appear in all the foods you eat without cooking first and that we keep in the refrigerator. A few simple hygiene measures can nevertheless reduce the risk of contamination:

* Avoid soft cheeses or raw milk, grated cheese bags, products purchased from the delicatessen, smoked fish, cold meats raw or cooked raw shellfish.
* Remove precaution cheese rinds.
* Make a habit in your kitchen to wash the work plans, refrigerator and kitchen utensils, wash your hands before eating and to separate raw foods from ready to eat them.
* Skip to accommodate the remains.
* Cook meat well.
* Wash fruits and vegetables.

Some of these recommendations apply equally to guard against toxoplasmosis. In early pregnancy, a blood test had to tell you if you’ve already been infected by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and you are therefore already immunized against toxoplasmosis. If this is not the case, taking regular blood check that you are not infected. Toxoplasmosis may indeed have serious consequences for the fetus depending on the stage of pregnancy at which it occurs: risk of cardiac malformations, neurological and eye and in some cases an intrauterine death (spontaneous abortion). As the parasite is transmitted later, the lesions are less severe. The risk of congenital toxoplasmosis is highest when maternal infection occurs between the 10th and 24th week of pregnancy.

Again a few precautions are better than one:

* If you have a cat, avoid contact with droppings.
* Wear gloves when gardening.
* Wash fruits and vegetables before eating them.
* Eat only thoroughly cooked meat and avoid meat marinated and grilled.