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How folic acid plays vital role during pregnancy period

Folic acid is an important constituent of your baby’s diet. It is important you give your baby enough of folic acid during your days of pregnancy to ensure it is born healthy and well developed. Folic acid is a type of vitamin B that is mostly found in legumes like spinach, cabbage, kale, citrus fruits, rich variety grains etc. Lack of folic acid to your little baby might cause it to be born with a serious neural defect. 400 micro grams of folic acid is an essential for your baby while you are pregnant. In fact for the best results, you should not take high doses of folic acid only while you are pregnant but from some time before you have conceived which means that your pregnancy needs to be planned if you intend on having a healthy and well developed baby.

Spina bifida, anencephaly and encephalocele are some of the most commonly experienced neural disorders that babies might be born with if they suffer from a lack of folic acid. What unfortunate is when the expecting mother is irresponsible and does not provide her child with the nutrients it needs, the baby incurs such a life long damage within the first twenty eight days of pregnancy itself and by then most mothers do not even know they are pregnant. After this it is too late to undo the mistake and nothing can be done if the baby has already gotten a disorder from the lack of folic acid. All women must thus make sure they consume a good amount of folic acid. Doctors are still not sure what about folic acids help to have such a profound effect on the child but it is known to have a very good effect on the development of DNA and tissue in the child.

Enough of folic acid intake is very important even before you try to conceive as well as three months from the time you know you have conceived so that you make sure that the chances of ruining the development of the child’s neural order is lessened. Around 1998, the Food and Drug Administration in the United States recommended that folic acid be induced into enriched grains products. So you know that you are giving yourself enough folic acid if you are eating breakfast cereals, pastas, breads and rice containing such grains. But this might not always seem sufficient. To reach the desired level of folic acid intake you might have to take the aid of vitamin supplements. However make sure that these vitamin, protein and other nutrient supplements do not replace your regular diet. Supplements are only an addition to your normal regime of food intake. Some experts might recommend that you take some extra folic acid along with your pre natal vitamins which is not a bad idea either. Whatever the case is, consulting your doctor about the intake of folic acid during pregnancy is the best option. But try to stick to prescribed medicines over non prescribed ones. You might also be needed to take a higher dose of folic acid if you have greater chances of causing your baby to a neural disorder in the case of genetics.

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