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Goat's milk during pregnancy
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Goat's milk contains fewer vitamins than cow's milk, but this is no less valuable. Other useful substances in milk from goats are much larger:
- Vitamin B12 - activates hematopoiesis, metabolic functions.
- Potassium - takes part in the activity of the cardiovascular system.
- Finely dispersed fat, light and very useful for digestion.
Goat's milk for early pregnancy
Bearing a baby requires high-grade nutrition with high-quality products. Dairy products are so important that every day should be present in the pregnant menu.
Goat milk during pregnancy, in the early stages, including, can saturate the body of the future mother with nutrients and trace elements. It has bactericidal properties, increases immune defense, positively affects nervous activity. Therefore, if there are no contraindications, goat's milk during pregnancy should be consumed constantly. Better assimilated product, drunk on an empty stomach.
Sometimes goat's milk in early pregnancy doctors advise drinking with iodine. Such a drink is useful for the formation of thyroid hormones and the formation of a child's brain. In a later period, iodized milk promotes the production of mother's milk.
Very useful is warm milk with honey - if it is to taste and there are no contraindications to honey. This drink improves sleep, strengthens the immune system, prevents the development of toxicosis.
Goat milk during pregnancy is so full and balanced that it does not require combining with cereals or other ingredients (so as not to disrupt the assimilation of valuable components). In its composition - beta casein, monounsaturated fatty acids (capric and linoleic acids) and saturated fats, vitamins (vitamin A, B12, D, carotene and niacin), macroelements (calcium and magnesium) and trace elements (iron).
Benefits of goat's milk in pregnancy
The use of goat milk during pregnancy and the fact that it does not contain allergy proteins and significantly less lactose, which can also cause unwanted reactions of the body. Therefore, goat's milk during pregnancy is used as a dietary product, and in a child's diet - with hypolactasia. The composition of goat product is close to the mother, which makes it very useful for newborns.
The value of milk from a goat is obvious in dysbacteriosis, hyperacid gastritis, rickets, osteoporosis and diseases, which are accompanied by gipkaltsiemiey, fractures of bones.
Goat's milk during pregnancy is a good cosmetic. Cosmetologists produce whole lines of drugs based on it - against acne, brittle hair. Natural substances relieve wrinkles, improve complexion, strengthen hair.
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Contraindications to use
Contraindications to the use of goat's milk during pregnancy concern people who are ill:
- pathologies of the pancreas;
- obesity, provoked by endocrine problems;
- when the body lacks the enzyme lactase;
- when allergic to milk protein.
To determine the possibility of allergies, you need to start taking a small portion.
Do not drink goat's milk during pregnancy, if it causes nausea, with intolerance of individual components.
You can not consume milk directly before or immediately after a meal, as milk neutralizes gastric juice, slows digestion, causing discomfort and heaviness in the stomach.
You can not drink milk from the refrigerator, so as not to catch cold, and also liter: the abuse of this drink can provoke a child's propensity for allergies after birth.
Dairy products, especially natural goat's milk, during pregnancy are a very useful component of the diet. It can be purchased only in some private farms. To make the milk for the benefit of the mother and child, you need to know that it is from a healthy goat, and take it in raw, small portions, between meals of other food.
Harm to goat's milk in pregnancy
Rich in easily digestible substances, goat's milk, if consumed frequently enough, can cause hypervitaminosis, gastric disorders, digestive disorders, excessive weight.
The harm of goat's milk during pregnancy, and not only, can be significant if the animal is sick with pathologies that threaten people. Particularly dangerous anthropozoonosis is brucellosis.
Goat's milk can do more harm than good, and if the animal is kept in poor conditions, do not follow the ration and cleanliness of the udder. This milk has an unpleasant smell and taste.
In order not to spoil the gustatory and useful properties of goat's milk, it does not need to be boiled, curdled without knowledge of the special technology of making goat cheese, cooking porridge and milk soups. Goat milk during pregnancy should be consumed as an independent product, apart from other foods and dishes.