Can pregnant women eat ice cream

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With the approach of hot summer, ice cream began to slowly occupy people's life market. Under the scorching sun, think how happy it is to hold an ice cream in your hand. However, for expectant mothers in special periods, we have to consider that pregnant women can't eat a lot of things. Can they eat ice cream? Some friends said that pregnant women should avoid raw and cold food, which is not good for their children and mothers. Today, we will study whether pregnant women can eat ice cream. If pregnant women eat ice cream during pregnancy, what will happen? What are the benefits of not eating ice cream.

Can pregnant women eat ice cream

First: ice cream is mainly composed of three components, including 7% - 16% fat, 14% - 20% sucrose, and 3% - 4% protein. The fat in ice cream mainly comes from milk and eggs, with more lecithin, which can release choline, which is helpful for improving people's memory. Ice cream contains sugar, which is composed of lactose in milk, fructose in fruit juice, fructose in pulp and sucrose. Organic acid, tannin and various vitamins in it can provide nutrients for human body. In addition to the above nutritional values, ice cream also contains milk or dairy products, eggs or egg products, sweeteners, flavoring agents, stabilizers and edible pigments as raw materials. Pregnant women should also consider these when eating ice cream.

Second: many people think that the bacteria of frozen food must be killed by low temperature, so it is safe to eat. In fact, frozen food, such as ice cream, may also contain bacteria, leading to the occurrence of "ice cream disease". In addition, pregnant women should prevent "cold drink disease" and "refrigerator disease" in summer. Eating too much ice cream can cause abdominal distension, abdominal pain, irritability and other symptoms; the refrigerator is not a sterile box, some psychrophilic bacteria and molds are resistant to low temperature, and some refrigerators even have dysentery bacilli, which can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea and other acute gastroenteritis, so pregnant mothers had better restrain their desire to eat ice cream to minimize the risk.

Third: due to pregnancy will make women's gastrointestinal function weakened, eating too much ice cream easy to make pregnant women gastrointestinal blood vessels suddenly contracted, resulting in reduced gastric secretion, digestive function will also be weakened, and then induce abdominal pain, diarrhea phenomenon.. The fetus is very sensitive to the stimulation of cold, when pregnant women eat too much cold food, the fetus has restless reaction.

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Pregnant women's nose, throat, trachea and other respiratory tract mucosa are often congested and accompanied by edema. If they suddenly eat too much ice cream or cold drink, it will make the congested blood vessels constrict, lead to the decline of local resistance, and make the bacteria and viruses latent in the throat, trachea, nasal cavity and oral cavity take the opportunity to cause hoarseness, cough, headache, etc. In severe cases, it can cause upper respiratory tract infection.