Main causes and prevention of anemia in pregnant women

Childbearing age due to menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, contraception and other reasons, become the high prevalence of anemia of special populations. Iron-deficiency anaemia is causing one of the main causes of maternal mortality. Anemia in pregnant women prone to premature and low birth weight, maternal anaemia, fetal liver iron content in the storage of small babies prone to anemia. According to the World Health Organization criteria, ≪11 g/dl of hemoglobin to anemia in pregnant women, no pregnant woman anemia of ≪12 g/dl for hemoglobin.

Information about one-third of anaemia in pregnancy is not lactating women in China, and almost half of lactating and pregnant woman anemia. Anemia of childbearing age in China is more prominent, than of anemia in pregnant women and nursing mothers is not pregnant lactating women is even more serious. Close to the prevalence of anaemia in pregnant women and pregnancy week. City 13 weeks ago prevalence of anemia in pregnant women is 16.4%, 28-37 peak weeks \' gestation, prevalence of anemia of 41.4%, 32%, but dropped to 37 weeks \' gestation. Data tips, after 13 weeks of pregnancy in pregnant women, especially after 28 weeks to increase iron supplement, correction of anemia in pregnant women.

Anemia in pregnant women with pregnancy week increased mainly due to:

(1) increase with weeks of gestation, blood increased capacity blood dilution;

(2) growth and development of fetus in the womb increased need for iron, mother iron relative shortage, caused by anemia. Iron deficiency is the major cause of anaemia.

How to prevent iron deficiency anemia?

(1) caused by iron deficiency anemia, industrialized countries have long used method for strengthening of iron foods achieved very good results, also implemented food in many developing countries in recent years to strengthen iron addressing women\'s and children\'s anemia, commonly used and enhanced iron diet of flour, corn flour, soy sauce, sugar, salt and so on. Soy sauce are being implemented in China to strengthen prevention of iron deficiency.

(2) improving diets, eat iron-rich food. Animal food in the liver, blood tofu and meat in high iron content, good absorption. Egg yolk also contains iron, low content of iron in vegetables, poor absorption, but fresh green vegetables rich in folic acid, folic acid involved in the formation of red blood cell, large cell anemia caused by folic acid deficiency, can also cause anemia of mixed. Therefore both food into a certain amount of meat in the diet, liver, blood tofu; also eat fresh vegetables. In the liver are rich in iron, vitamin a, also have a wealth of folic acid, vitamin a also helps for iron absorption and utilization. Eat liver once a week on the prevention of anaemia is very good.

(3) for more than moderate anemia, oral iron treatment is also very necessary. Anemia in pregnancy take off the mourning dress when the mourning period is over away from iron, taking small doses of folic acid (400ug per day). Taking low-dose folic acid is not only conducive to the prevention of anaemia in pregnant women, but also conducive to the prevention of congenital neural tube defects and congenital heart disease. Folic acid dose not large.
Women anemia except iron nutrition insufficient outside, menstrual too much, and function sexual uterine within film bleeding, and uterine built-in birth control device, and repeatedly pregnancy, and repeatedly abortion, factors about; chronic enteritis and the digestive absorption bad, and malaria, and intestinal parasites infection (Ascaris lumbricoides, and hookworm, and tapeworm) and the including AIDS zainei of chronic infection sexual disease is caused anemia of causes, above disease except nutrition supplementary outside, must to to hospital diagnosis and treatment of.