What can’t I eat if I’m pregnant?

Referring to the ancient discussion, I try not to eat, eat less food during pregnancy is summarized as follows: A, animal: crab, snapper, eel, loach, toad, bird meat (sparrow meat may), rabbit meat, donkey meat, horse meat, mule meat, dog meat, sheep liver, goat meat. In addition, I personally recommend that, in addition to toad, other cold-blooded animals also eat less as well; B, plants: coix seeds (rice kernel), hawthorn, peach, plum, plum, apricot, lychee, cinnamon, bean paste, ginger, cinnamon; C, food with taboo: chicken and glutinous rice, carp and eggs, mulberry and duck, bird meat and bean paste, shrimp toad and eel; D, other: do not eat cold drinks; F, genetically modified foods. Based on my personal current level of knowledge, I make the following analysis and inferences about the above contraindicated foods for pregnancy for your reference. As my personal theory and experience improve and accumulate, I will continue to enrich and/or update this article. 1, crabs, especially the claw nails of crabs “Taste will be cold-eyed crab, see how long you run amok!” I thought that the crab might be the only creature in this world that runs rampant except for humans, but it has the misfortune to be a delicacy in human meals. The crab is delicious, but it contains “biological information” (temporary borrowing of the word, you do not say it is pseudoscience ah) should also be horizontal, the ancients believe that eating it will “make the son born”. Modern people are not afraid of fetal malposition, big deal, just cut! But the “biological information” of the crab claw nail is just like its appearance, too sharp, eating it is easy to abort together, pregnant women had better not eat crab claw nail. The clinic has seen some pregnant women bleed after eating crabs during early pregnancy. 2, turtle (turtle) turtle is already a well-known tonic. I have personally experienced a number of postmenopausal women who, because of their children’s filial piety, take turtle every day continuously resulting in abnormal endometrial hyperplasia and the reappearance of “menstruation”, which is what the common people call “inverted blossoming”, a condition prone to endometrial malignancy. However, the ancient saying that “eating a turtle will make the uterus short and damage the fetus” is very inexplicable and makes people think it is a superstition. There are pregnant women who do not believe in this, and I have heard of many cases where it was fine, but I also saw a woman who took snapper as a tonic during pregnancy, and her son’s neck was normal and not “shortened”, but the child was more than 10 years old and still had recurring colds, was prone to asthma, and had a disobedient personality. 3, eels, loach during pregnancy Qi should be quiet and not too dynamic, so eels, loach, these sex go scurrying good moving things should be eaten sparingly, so as not to move the fetal energy. And so on, snakes should not eat. 4, toad mainly refers to toads, including other frogs, such as bullfrogs, toad oil (snow clams), toad oil is the oviduct of the northeastern forest frog. Toads are toxic, should not be taken during pregnancy, well understood, but frogs, toad oil can not eat seems to make sense. The ancients said that eating toads “make the child mute”, this statement can not be explained, there must be people who think this is superstition. But I personally think, cold-blooded animals or eat less is better. I do not recommend eating snow clams to pregnant women, but also do not interfere with and do not evaluate the recommendations of other doctors on toad oil. 5, bird meat The ancient people said that the bird meat, generally considered to be sparrow meat, but some people believe that including pigeon meat. Sparrow sex, so the ancients believe that pregnant women eat it, the offspring are prone to “unashamedly more obscene”, “obscene and shameless”. Sparrow is not sold in the market, so the chances of pregnant women eating it are rare. But the pigeon is also a sexually lascivious thing, it seems to be eaten less during pregnancy, so although others recommend eating pigeon during pregnancy, I never recommend it. The modern people have no scruples, everything to eat, this may be extramarital affairs, one-night stands, two or three milk and so on one of the reasons for the world’s culture it. Oh, gossip! 6, donkey meat, horse and mule meat Ancient people believe that eating them, may lead to “prolonged months difficult to give birth”. I analysis, this is because the gestation period of donkeys and horses are longer than 280 days for humans, of which 340 days or so for horses, 365 days or so for donkeys, so you can not eat. But the question arises, because the gestation period of pigs is 114 days, shorter than that of humans, but the ancients did not say that eating pork can lead to premature birth. Then only this understanding makes sense – pregnant women can only eat creatures with a shorter and similar gestation period than humans (such as cows), not creatures with a longer gestation period than humans. Modern medicine has a way to induce birth, big deal C-section, seems to be free from this taboo. 7, mule meat, and even genetically modified food mule, for hybrid alien, basic loss of fertility, our ancient sages must have clearly perceived that this alien creature contains “abnormal information” is not suitable for pregnant women. The “genetically modified food”, there is a huge controversy, we can feel free to Baidu “genetically modified food”, I personally is to avoid eating as much as possible, of course, the unit canteen, outside restaurants I can not verify. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a good deal on your own. 8, rabbit meat rabbit meat is cold, rabbit brain is warm, eat less during pregnancy is good. The “Health Family Treasure Obstetrics Preparation” has a “divine effect to promote birth Dan”, Fu Shan has “promote birth rabbit brain pill”, the main medicine are “rabbit brain”. As for the saying that “the son lacks lips”, let’s put it aside for now. Greedy, bold, fearless people can eat, I would love to have some people to do this experiment, through a controlled study to test, in the end, the ancients said there is no reason. 9, goat liver, goat meat “eat goat meat, so that the son of many diseases” and “eat goat liver, so that the son of many er” is not good explanation, can only say that, goat meat is hot, for the body heat pregnant women should be prohibited. Goat meat can not be eaten, sheep meat should be able to eat. Nomads have never eaten mutton, no abnormalities have been seen, but there is no testimony whether they eat lamb liver during pregnancy. Zhang Zhongjing has a formula “Angelica Ginger Lamb Soup” to treat postpartum abdominal pain and other non-pregnancy deficiency cold abdominal pain, not taken during pregnancy. 10, dog meat “eat dog meat, so that the son no sound”, can not explain, first suspicion set aside. There is an afterword: “North Koreans have a New Year’s Eve – it’s the life of a dog”. I don’t know if North Koreans eat dog meat during pregnancy, although they speak less Chinese than Chinese people, but they speak Korean. Dog meat is hot, so at least for Yin deficiency body heat pregnant women should not eat. 11, coix seeds (rice kernel) coix seeds is both food and Chinese medicine, typical of the same source of medicine and food. The ancient “pregnancy taboo song” has this Chinese medicine, modern pharmacological research found that: can excite the uterus of rabbits and guinea pigs. Although the results of in vitro animal experiments are definitely not equivalent to the effects of oral human consumption, but in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, I generally do not use this medicine in the prescriptions for pregnant women, and do not recommend pregnant women to eat barley porridge. Gynecological inflammatory diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease, vaginitis belongs to the Chinese medicine called “bring down the disease”, I recommend that these people eat more rice kernel in the non-pregnant period, because rice kernel strengthens the spleen and clears heat and dampness, very suitable for gynecological inflammatory diseases. However, these people can consider stop taking it after pregnancy. Of course, if the condition requires, the doctor for the purpose of treating the disease, you can also consider the use of the so-called “there is no perish, but also no perish”. 12, lychee, cinnamon, cinnamon bark These three things are hot, the body is hot, during pregnancy should be taken less. The ancient people advocate “before the fetus should be cool”. The cold side of the body, it seems to be relaxed. 13, plum, plum, apricot, peach There is a folk proverb: “peach full of people, apricot hurt people, plum tree buried under the dead”. Peach, “with the rest of the diet recipes” said the peach: “tonic blood to live blood, produce fluid and clean heat, people fat and healthy, good color.” Apricot, “Sun Hua Zi Ben Cao” says: “hot, poisonous. Plum, plum, the Golden Horoscope: “elk fat and plum plum, if the expectant mother eats it, so that the child green blind, men hurt sperm.” Plums, Sun Simiao said: “Do not eat more, people deficient.” The Dian Nan Ben Cao contains: “Do not eat more, damage the spleen and stomach.” In summary, the above foods should be eaten less. Hangzhou girls like to eat plum (made of plum to the preserves), after becoming a mother-to-be many people still plum never leave the mouth, which is not a good eating habits. 14, bean paste “Women’s Complete Good Recipe” contains: “bird meat combined with bean paste eaten, so that the son face born (black dry) (black had) black son” in ancient times “bean paste” refers specifically to what? I think that pregnant women eat “bean paste” children will be born with freckles on their faces after birth? I can not explain this, doubtful to be examined. 15, ginger ginger, that is, the young ginger, containing ginger buds, as opposed to old ginger. Zigang has a lot of ginger buds, the ancients worried that pregnant women eat it will lead to babies with more fingers, very “superstitious” feeling. However, when you need to eat ginger during pregnancy, such as heavy early pregnancy reaction, or even severe pregnancy vomiting, it is better to eat the old ginger without buds, why fight with ginger. 16, dry carp Sun Simiao said: carp during pregnancy can not be eaten with eggs; Li Shizhen said: can not eat carp, are unable to explain. It seems that Sun Simiao agreed to eat carp, at least when there is too much amniotic fluid and edema in pregnancy. The market in Hangzhou can’t buy carp, so pregnant women in Hangzhou can stop worrying about this. 17, hawthorn hawthorn has the effect of eliminating food and stasis, eat less during pregnancy. Hawthorn is more suitable for postpartum, many postpartum remedies have this medicine, such as Liu Fengwu old Chinese medicine recommended the introduction of “postpartum biochemical soup” in the hawthorn. 18, cold drinks Sun Simiao of the Tang Dynasty said: “pregnancy eating ice syrup will never be born”, Chen Ziming of the Song Dynasty also recorded: “eating ice syrup will never be born”. Some people may see these two sentences will feel strange – do the Tang and Song dynasties also have a cold drink “ice cream”? This is how we underestimate the ancients. Someone from the “Book of Songs” and other documents to prove that as early as the Shang Dynasty, there is winter ice storage in the cellar for summer consumption, of course, only a small number of privileged class to enjoy exclusively. By the Tang and Song dynasties, cold drinks in summer had reached a commercial scale and were available to the rich and famous. In my clinic, there are often pregnant women who suffer from bleeding and other symptoms of pre-eclampsia due to the consumption of cold drinks. I have seen several cases of spontaneous miscarriage as a direct result of consuming cold drinks. Therefore, it is better for mothers-to-be not to eat cold drinks, especially if they have a cold spleen and stomach and are prone to diarrhea, as well as those who have a history of infertility with a cold uterus. The majority of people have either not heard of these taboos, or even if they know some, they will turn their mouths up and scoff, confident that these claims are superstitious and unscientific, although no one has done a clinical control study on this. In the premise that it is not confirmed by the “scientific method” and not falsified by the “scientific method”, it is “false”, “fake” and “superstition “It is also unscientific in itself. My personal preference is that the above-mentioned foods should not be eaten during pregnancy, especially in early pregnancy, and there are so many other foods to eat, so why focus on this little bit of questionable food and compete with them? Are you brave? Once again, the above dietary taboos during pregnancy are mainly from ancient records, and I have summarized, adjusted, reviewed and analyzed them according to my own knowledge and understanding. Due to my current level of knowledge, there may be some inappropriate points. For some therapeutic purposes, some of the above foods may be applied at your discretion, but the specific situation should follow the advice of your doctor.