Can pregnant people eat folic acid?

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2025-05-04 17:01:24 Views: 24 times

Folic acid is an important component of hemoglobin synthesis. If folic acid is deficient in the body, it is easy to cause megaloblastic anemia. Therefore, folic acid supplementation can prevent anemia or correct megaloblastic anemia. In the preparation stage, folic acid should be supplemented from the first three months of pregnancy until the third month of pregnancy, mainly to prevent fetal neural tube defects, but also to effectively prevent eye, lip, jaw, bone and other abnormalities, lack of folic acid in early pregnancy can easily lead to stillbirth, abortion and other performance. For normal healthy people, usually balanced nutrition can be, you can take folic acid from food, such as spinach, lettuce, mushrooms, etc., these green vegetables contain a lot of folic acid, generally do not need additional folic acid supplementation.



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