Quite often women during pregnancy very much want the most exotic products, here only sunflower seeds are not included into this list. However the pumpkin and linen seed is capable to bring benefit to future mother, for example, saving it from heartburn therefore the question of a possibility of the use of such products by pregnant women is always relevant. Let's understand, sunflower seeds are how useful and whether can do much harm to the woman and her future child.
Why during pregnancy there is a wish for sunflower seeds?
Many women liked to eat sunflower seeds and before pregnancy therefore they do not want to refuse them during incubation of the child. However if you were always indifferent to them, and now and day cannot live without a thought of sunflower seeds, then the reason of such sudden inclination, quite possibly, is in their structure.
It is no secret that the developing fruit quickly spends the useful substances which are saved up in a maternal organism, so, the lost stocks need to be filled. Seeds of sunflower, pumpkin and a flax contain a huge stock of useful components among which — fatty acids, magnesium, potassium, zinc, calcium, phosphorus and also vitamins A, In, E and D which are necessary for an organism of mother and future child.
Sometimes the increased thirst for sunflower seeds is explained by presence at pregnant heartburn. This product, really, helps to cope with burning sensation because of what future mother often feels in it requirement. Sunflower seeds bring a certain benefit and that it is worth knowing about their possible harm — we will tell further.
Whether it is possible for pregnant women there are sunflower seeds?
Sunflower seed — not the only option of sunflower seeds, and except it to pregnant women sometimes recommend to eat pumpkin, sesame and linen. As far as all these seeds are safe and whether it is possible to eat them at different stages of incubation of the child — depends on specific features of the woman and state of her health. Let's consider in more detail than feature of influence of such product on an organism of future mother.
Whether you know? We are obliged by a possibility of use of fruits of a sunflower to Old Indian tribes which grew up it in the Mexican territory in the third century BC. In the XVI century the plant was delivered on the territory of Europe and called a grass of the sun.
Advantage and harm of pumpkin
Correctly dried up and slightly fried seeds of pumpkin are characterized by considerable advantage, and not only for the pregnant woman. It is possible to carry the following to positive aspects of their use:
- normalization of a dream and prevention of depressions;
- decrease in level of cholesterol;
- normalization of normal functioning of intestines;
- maintenance of a hormonal background of the woman;
- improvement of work of a cardiovascular system;
- maintaining beauty and youth of skin.
Besides, pumpkin sunflower seeds quite often become the first assistant in fight against early toxicosis, and by amount of vitamins and minerals such seed does not concede to sunflower at all.
As for potential negative impact on the pregnant woman's organism, emergence of side effects from the use of seeds of pumpkin it is possible only in case of abuse of them or in the presence of individual contraindications.
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Most often harmful effects are shown by a set of excess weight (it is very high-calorific product), damage of tooth enamel (if you got used to clean them with teeth) and development of stagnant processes in joints (seldom). To avoid all undesirable consequences, use seeds of pumpkin it is dosed, and both on early, and in the late stages of pregnancy.
Sunflower sunflower seeds
Fried sunflower seeds of sunflower — the most favourite and most widespread option of such products. It is possible to get them in any shop, and pregnant women willingly use such opportunity. Whether sunflower sunflower seeds are useful to an organism of future child — depends on their quality and specific features of health of the woman. At their use it is possible to refer to useful properties of such sunflower seeds:
- decrease in manifestations of toxicosis (it is especially relevant in the first trimester of pregnancy);
- normalization of a chair;
- improvement of appetite;
- improvement of a condition of integuments, hair and nails;
- regulation of acid-base balance in a stomach.
It is important! To derive from a product only benefit, it is better to choose a dried seed as in fried option, most likely, any more there is no full range of useful components.
As well as in a case with pumpkin sunflower seeds, possible harm from seeds of a podoslnechnik is explained by ignoring of consumption rates. In day there will be quite enough 100 g and if you already managed to gain excess weight or have tendency to allergic manifestations, then it is worth using them not more often than several times a week. Especially it concerns women in the late stages of pregnancy.
Sesame
Sesame seeds usually meet as powder on bakery or confectionery, but it does not mean that they are not suitable for the use in an independent look. Certainly, nobody says that it is possible to gnaw such sunflower seeds without measure. At the dosed use they have positive impact on the pregnant woman's organism that is expressed in:
- softening of stool and fight against locks;
- increase in protective forces of an organism in the period of viral infections;
- strengthening of tooth enamel and protection of gums against inflammatory processes;
- prevention of development of anemia (contain a large amount of iron, useful to future mother);
- urination process normalization (frequency of desires is significantly reduced);
- the all-strengthening influence;
- decrease in uneasiness and probability of development of depressions due to presence at composition of substance of a niatsin;
- maintenance of an optimum hormonal background.
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Not to use sesame seeds in large numbers, they are usually added to yogurt mixes, pastries or roast from meat and vegetables. However, you should not forget also that during pregnancy it is better to minimize the fried products and fancy bread. At the time sesame unreasonably was included in the list of the most harmful products for pregnant women and the thing is that it was considered hot, that is capable to provoke abortion. There are no practical confirmations of such guesses today, but if all of you worry about the state, then it is better to refuse the use of these sunflower seeds in the last trimester of pregnancy (on initial terms the daily dosage should not exceed ½ teaspoons).
Whether you know? Magic properties were long since attributed to Sezam (he is sesame). In days of old he was even considered by an immortality elixir component.
Linen
The linen seed not unreasonably is considered the real well of vitamins and minerals, in it it is even more useful fatty acids, enzymes and other components, important for female body, than in the known cod-liver oil. Some doctors even recommend to use these sunflower seeds as auxiliary therapy at diseases of a stomach and an urinogenital system. As for pregnant women, the most noticeable useful properties of a flax can be considered:
- maintenance of normal hormonal balance in an organism;
- increase in exchange processes that extremely positively affects a condition of future mother and her child;
- decrease in probability of development of problems of central nervous system of a fruit;
- successful fight against locks and gastrointestinal diseases;
- cleaning of vessels of cholesteric savings;
- stimulation of immunity of the woman;
- strengthening of development of milk on late terms.
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At the same time, at the use of a product in a large number it is impossible to exclude possibilities of development of a uterus tone that is especially dangerous in the first and third trimesters of pregnancy. It is possible to warn abortion and to protect itself from possible side effects (for example, exacerbations of stomach ulcer) only by means of the dosed reception of a linen seed with which calculation you will be able to be helped by your doctor, based on specific features of an organism.
Important! On any term of pregnancy the linen seed cannot be eaten as usual sunflower seeds of a sunflower and to provide the organism with the necessary quantity of the useful components which are contained in them, it is better to prepare broth or infusion.
Whether sunflower seeds at pregnancy help?
Sunflower seeds of pumpkin are often used by the person in fight against worms, and the sunflower seed effectively helps to eliminate heartburn including at pregnancy. Whether it is possible to consider such influence mass or these products nevertheless cannot be used for this purpose — let's understand.
From heartburn
On early terms of incubation of the child the sunflower seeds of a sunflower are only in rare instances capable to facilitate heartburn attacks, but here at late stages they really help to cope with it. After hit in a stomach their components make the knitting impact on hydrochloric acid, and the burning sensation in a digestive tract decreases. However, action of such means short and an hour later attacks of heartburn can already renew. The same concerns also a pumpkin seed. Therefore in both cases such product can be kept around only as the emergency assistant.
From worms
In fight against parasites is more effective than the others there are pumpkin sunflower seeds therefore they are often recommended to children. The secret of useful effect is in structure, namely in abilities of such component as kukurbitin — real danger to parasites. As for the most useful part sunflower seeds, the film located between a kernel and its outer sheath — a peel was it.
Kukurbitin makes the paralyzing impact on lyambliya, solityor, ring and tape worms because of what they lose ability to movement and fixing on walls of mucous membranes. Leaving a stomach together with stool, parasites do not leave behind any traces therefore sunflower seeds of pumpkin are considered as one of the safest methods of prevention and fight against parasites, in particular, and at incubation of the child. It is impossible to tell precisely what sunflower seeds will be the most useful in each case, but at the dosed use you should not worry about health of the pregnant woman. To warn all undesirable consequences, eat no more handful of pumpkin or sunflower seeds in day and attentively listen to the organism.