Medical diets during pregnancy

The therapeutic diet during pregnancy helps the body of the future mother to cope with the difficult task of bearing a healthy baby. Therefore, it is based, first of all, on the rules of balanced nutrition, which includes the use of substances that are extremely beneficial to the human body.

But what to do in the event that the pregnant woman has irregularities in the work of certain organs? In this case, the question of proper nutrition should be approached with particular attention. Of course, you will need to pass all the necessary tests to determine the causes of pathology, and also follow the medical recommendations clearly.

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Diet for the liver during pregnancy

Diet for the liver during pregnancy is aimed at improving the work of this vital organ, which is inherent in simultaneously performing several functions. One of the main things is "barrier": the liver detains harmful substances coming through the skin and food products. The results of a malfunction in her work are metabolic disorders, deterioration of blood filtration, active production of "harmful" cholesterol, etc. That is why it is so important for a pregnant woman to follow a special diet aimed at reducing the load on this body and improving its functioning.

What are the features of such a diet? First of all, it should consist of products with a low content of cholesterol, sodium, fat, but with an increased amount of carbohydrates and proteins. In the diet also need to include vitamin supplements, appointed by the attending physician.

In diseases or disorders in the liver, pregnant women are advised to refrain from drinking salt, because it provokes stagnation of fluid, which leads to swelling. From products that favorably affect the liver, you can identify dairy products: sour cream, milk, curd products, curdled milk, yogurt. It is important to remember the daily consumption of vegetables and fruits, as well as meat in boiled form and fish.

The diet for the liver during pregnancy consists of a menu that includes viscous porridge, oatmeal dishes, honey, puddings and casseroles from cereals. Categorically forbidden fast food, as well as sweets in the form of chocolate, cakes, cakes.

Approximately one day's menu for pregnant women who have liver problems may look like this:

• First breakfast. Black cereal bread, butter, a glass of tea or cocoa. 
• Lunch. Fruit or milk product: kefir, fermented milk, whole milk. 
• Dinner. Soup with semolina, mashed potatoes, beef, boiled beets, compote of dried fruits. 
• Snack. A fruit or a dairy product. 
• Dinner. Rice porridge, buckwheat, tea, or skim hard cheese and salad with spinach.

A future mother should know about the physiological changes that occur in her body at different stages of pregnancy. For example, in recent months, the liver and kidneys begin to work with a greater load, so in the diet should include salads and light soups, and use meat only in boiled or baked form, without adding spices and any seasonings. The way the future mother feeds affects not only her health and the well-coordinated work of the internal organs, but also the correct intrauterine development of the baby.

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Diet 5 in Pregnancy

Diet during pregnancy, which includes a full, balanced diet, is aimed at the harmonious work of internal organs and the optimal metabolism in the body of the mother. However, if it is violated it is necessary to use a special diet, which in medicine was No. 5.

Diet 5 during pregnancy is designed primarily for the normalization and improvement of metabolism, as well as the activation of the internal organs of the future mother: the liver, stomach and pancreas, as well as the duodenum and intestines. With the rational nutrition in the organism of the future mother, activation of the reducing processes is observed through the development of enzymes necessary for the digestion of food, the secretion of bile, and stimulation of protein synthesis. Such a regime includes 5 meals a day in fractional portions.

In the preparation of dishes recommended by dietitians for diet number 5, as well as when eating certain foods by pregnant women, it is necessary to take into account a number of important features:

• Bread should be eaten slightly dried, preferably choose rye, bran or baked from soya flour. Of flour products recommended dry biscuits, baked patties and biscuits. 
• Concerning the first dishes, it is preferable for pregnant women to use vegetarian soups (vegetable, fruit, cereals, dairy), and from cold - various meat dishes, salad from vegetables, baked or boiled fish, hard cheese of low-fat varieties. 
• Vegetables can be taken as raw or cooked, they can also be baked or stewed. 
• From porridges it is necessary to give preference to oatmeal and buckwheat, in a limited amount, the use of macaroni is allowed; also recommended meat pilaf with the addition of dried fruits, as well as puddings with carrots, apples or cottage cheese. 
• Eggs are best added to other dishes. Proteins can be used to make a steam omelet. 
• We need to ensure that the diet of a pregnant woman includes dairy and sour-milk products: kefir, cottage cheese, natural and condensed milk, salty hard cheese. 
• From fish only low-fat herbs are recommended (hake, pike, navaga, etc.). These varieties of fish can be boiled, baked, and from minced meat to cook canola, steam cutlets, meatballs, soufflé. 
• Meat should only be used lean, - for this purpose, the chicken, as well as dietary rabbit meat, turkey fillet, is best suited. It is recommended to use boiled, as well as baked. 
• Sauces can be prepared on the basis of sour cream and milk, vegetable broths, a variety of fruits and berries. 
• It is inadmissible to be overly addicted to sweets, for this purpose it is preferable to use honey and sweet fruits. 
• From drinks recommended sweet fruit and vegetable juices, compotes, as well as fruit drinks and broth of wild rose.

It is necessary to remember about forbidden food products while observing diet number 5. These include fresh bread, canned food, smoked meat, broths based on meat, mushrooms and fish. It is not recommended to use harsh vegetables (radish, garlic, spinach, horseradish), as well as legumes, sauces. Pregnant should not be fond of fried eggs, meat by-products, black coffee. To accept food at a diet number 5 doctors recommend small portions and often, with intervals in 2-3 hours. With such a food system, less toxicosis, and the metabolism is carried out in normal mode.

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Diet 7 during pregnancy

Diet during pregnancy restricts the intake of foods that can cause problems in the future mother with digestion or a malfunction in the internal organs. In recent months, before the birth, a special load is necessary for the work of such vital organs as the liver and kidneys. When observing the problems with their functioning, a pregnant woman needs to take special care to eat. For the treatment and prevention of jade, and to relieve the burden on the kidneys of a pregnant woman, a special diet is used at number 7.

Diet 7 in pregnancy is aimed at removing future sweats from mothers, reducing hypertension, as well as increasing metabolism to better remove the processed substances from the body of a future mother. This diet is characterized by eating food with a reduced content of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, within the limits of acceptable physiological norms. All dishes must be prepared without the addition of salt, - its daily dosage is determined by a doctor-dietitian in each particular case and most often does not exceed 6 grams. The number of so-called. "Free" liquid pregnant should be reduced to 1 liter per day.

If you follow a diet at number 7, it is recommended that future mothers refuse extractive substances, products containing oxalic acid, as well as essential oils. Meat and fish are advised to take in cooked form. As for the temperature regime of the dishes used, it should be ordinary.

Among the dishes and foods allowed by diet number 7, you can identify: saltless bread, vegetarian soups, beef, veal, poultry, fish. Also recommended eggs, a variety of dairy products, vegetables, cereals, snacks in the form of vinaigrette, vegetable salads. From drinks it is best to choose vegetable and fruit juices, compotes, hips, infusions, tea, cocoa and soft coffee.

The therapeutic diet for pregnancy at number 7 is the correct preparation of dishes. Meat and fish are best cooked steamed, stewed or baked. Eggs are preferable to "soft", as a vegetarian soup with sour cream, vegetable soups based on cereals. At noon, the most rational thing to do is to use a baked apple, dinner can consist of carrots, apple or curd bitches with tea. Food should be tasty and healthy!

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