”Eugenics” involves every maternal family and is valued by all families, and has become a national policy. At present, the content of eugenics education in China mainly includes: popularizing premarital health care knowledge, carrying out genetic and eugenic counseling services, promoting age-appropriate childbirth and prenatal diagnosis, and popularizing newborn disease screening, so as to achieve tertiary prevention measures of birth defects.
Eugenics of 20 taboos
1, avoid the same disease “love” and marry and have children. The same disease “love” and eventually married, only from the birth, both spouses suffer from the same disease is easy to inherit the disease to the offspring, which will seriously affect the health of the child, such as congenital deafness, thalassemia, etc..
2, do not marry close relatives. Marriage of close relatives can lead to fetal malformations, children with reduced intelligence and many congenital diseases, which has long been a scientifically proven fact.
3, do not marry with disease and pregnancy. Married with disease, with the changes in married life, will affect the health of the couple, if it is a major disease will also bring crisis and rift to the family. More importantly, if the disease is not cured in the case of conception and childbirth, it is likely to bring adverse effects on the health of the child. According to foreign reports, pregnant women with febrile (38 degrees or more) diseases, such as influenza, typhoid, pneumonia, etc., with high fever lasting for several days or 1 to 2 weeks, are prone to neurological defects in the fetus.
According to statistics, fever-induced neural tube defects account for about 10% of the causes of neural tube defects, animal experiments have also proved that high temperature is an obvious teratogenic factor.
4, avoid premarital medical examination. Premarital medical examination is a procedure that must be performed by the marriage, it is also a guarantee of a harmonious and happy life of the couple after marriage. In the premarital physical examination, you can also check whether the couple has a problem affecting eugenics, prevention before it happens.
5, avoid the lack of necessary knowledge of fertility. There are many newlywed couples due to lack of knowledge of fertility, after several years of marriage still do not see the birth of children, they are anxious, and even blame each other, resulting in family disharmony.
6, avoid honeymoon pregnancy. Conception is the first step in the birth of a child, the physical condition of both spouses at this time directly determines the physical condition of the child later. During the honeymoon, both sides of the couple are generally fatigued, and sexual life is not very coordinated, at this time pregnancy is obviously not the best. In addition, the couple should avoid pregnancy after alcohol, travel or excessive fatigue.
7, avoid senior pregnancy. For women, the best age to get pregnant should be between 25 and 30 years old, more than 35 years old and then pregnant, the same will affect the health and intelligence of the child. Male age can be appropriate higher, but should not be too high.
8, avoid the abuse of drugs during pregnancy. The abuse of drugs during pregnancy can directly affect the growth and development of the fetus in the body, and can sometimes cause premature birth, miscarriage or stillbirth, so it must be avoided. Do need to use drugs, should also be taken under the guidance of a doctor, do not abuse.
9, avoid keeping cats and dogs pets before pregnancy. Cats, dogs and other pets may infect women with a variety of germs, such as toxoplasma infection, can be directly transmitted to the fetus, so that the fetus malformation. Therefore, do not keep cats, dogs and other pets before pregnancy.
10, avoid carrying a viral infection during pregnancy. Viral infections not only affect the health of the mother, but also pose a certain risk to the fetus, causing abnormal development, such as cytomegalovirus, rubella virus, herpes simplex virus infection, syphilis, etc., can be transmitted to the fetus, baby through the placenta or delivery contact mother’s blood, so should also be avoided.
11, avoid pregnancy during the sexual life inordinate. Pregnancy is an important period for women, in this stage, couples should moderate sex and not frequent excess, especially in the early and last 2 months of pregnancy, should pay special attention, otherwise it is easy to cause miscarriage or premature delivery.
12, avoid excessive fatigue during pregnancy, poor rest. Excessive fatigue will make the fetus feed inadequate, affecting fetal health.
13, avoid picky eating during pregnancy. Lack of nutrition during pregnancy can affect the development of the fetus, and even lead to malformations, so reasonable nutrition during pregnancy is very important. Should pay attention to the structure of a balanced diet, balanced absorption of various nutrients and to achieve the appropriate amount of supply.
14, avoid refusing to medical examination during pregnancy. Regular checkups can eliminate possible hidden dangers and provide a better environment for the development of the fetus, which is very important for the mother and the fetus.
15, avoid smoking a lot during pregnancy and passive smoking. Smoking is also one of the risk factors for spontaneous abortion and birth defects, a study found that smoking is positively correlated with spontaneous abortion, smoking 10 cigarettes a day increased the rate of spontaneous abortion in women. Pregnant women who smoke can delay the development of the fetus, weight loss, prone to premature birth or congenital heart disease, but also affect the child’s intelligence. Therefore, you should stop smoking during pregnancy and reduce passive smoking as much as possible.
16, avoid alcohol abuse during pregnancy. Pregnant women alcoholism, the fetus will get fetal alcoholism syndrome, causing fetal malformations. Alcohol addiction should be before pregnancy, abstain from alcohol during pregnancy, male alcoholism can lead to damage to the reproductive system, should avoid drunken conception.
17, avoid excessive consumption of caffeine-containing beverages. Animal experiments have proved that caffeine to pregnant rats can make the offspring occur hydrocephalus, cleft palate and other malformations, foreign countries also reported the fertility of women of childbearing age and the relationship between the intake of coffee, usually drink more coffee people with reduced fertility. Tea also contains caffeine, so it is recommended that pregnant women and lactating mothers do not drink a lot of tea, do not drink strong tea, to avoid potential adverse effects on the development of the fetus and the breast.
18, avoid exposure to harmful toxic substances during pregnancy. Pregnant women too much exposure to chemical pesticides, X-rays lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, etc. will cause fetal malformations, may also cause the fetus to suffer from leukemia, malignant tumors and other diseases. Another study shows that the mother’s exposure to organic solvents (such as benzene, toluene, xylene, methanol, ethanol, ether, carbon disulfide, etc.) during pregnancy, the birth of children with central nervous system malformations equivalent to six times the non-exposed.
19, avoid excessive anxiety and tension during pregnancy. The fetus and the mother’s contact, in addition to the intake of nutrition, there are “feelings” of communication. People have found that when the pregnant woman emotional stability, peace of mind, the fetal movement is slow and regular; when the pregnant woman emotional long-term excessive tension, such as in shock, fear, pain, worry and anger, etc., can affect the hypothalamus of the fetus, so that neurological and endocrine changes, resulting in abnormal development of fetal mental behavior, or lead to miscarriage, malformations, etc..
This shows that pregnant women should strengthen self-cultivation, learn to self-psychological regulation, good at controlling and relieving unhealthy emotions, always maintain a stable, optimistic and good state of mind during pregnancy to ensure the healthy physical and mental development of the fetus.
20, avoid excessive worry about the risk of prenatal diagnosis. Pregnant women and their families need to correctly understand the significance of prenatal diagnosis. Not every pregnant woman needs to undergo prenatal diagnosis, but when there are suspicious abnormalities in the development of the fetus and a definite diagnosis is needed through puncture surgery, the choice should be weighed in order to avoid the birth of a child with serious defects.
The best time for female eugenics
The peak of female fertility should be between 20 and 30 years old. Physiologically, female reproductive organs generally mature after the age of 20, and skeletal development does not occur until the age of 24 or so. If you get pregnant before your skeleton is mature, mother and child will compete with each other for nutrients and affect the process of the mother’s skeletal development. Moreover, the health of the baby will be affected due to weak contraction of the uterus, fetal malposition and poor fetal development.
Therefore, it is reasonable for women to give birth at the age of 24-27, preferably no older than 30 and especially not older than 35. This is because when a woman is too old, the possibility of oocyte malformation increases and the rate of fetal malformation after conception also rises, which is not conducive to eugenic reproduction.
Good habits for male eugenics
The impact of bad habits on male fertility is very significant. Drinking a lot of alcohol has a toxic effect on the male reproductive system, and it can make the sperm count and vitality abnormal. It is reported that “one month before the wife became pregnant, for example, the husband drank 30 ml of alcohol equivalent per day; or 10 times in January, drinking liquor, more than 50 ml each time; or had drunk alcohol once in January, and the amount of alcohol greater than or equal to 125 ml; the birth weight of the newborn born to his wife dropped 236 grams compared to the control group”.
Such a low birth weight infant will not only bring difficulties in feeding, the infant’s ability to resist disease, growth rate, intellectual development, etc., will be adversely affected. Not only that, but the parents’ generation’s “heavy” drinking behavior will also affect their future children, as confirmed by the results of a study by American medical scientists. It seems that drinking not only affects you, but also the next generation.
Before giving birth to a good physiological state, stay up too late, can reduce the body’s immune system, should pay attention to scientific rest; some harmful to fertility food, such as celery, cottonseed oil can reduce the vitality and number of sperm, should avoid eating; hot water, high temperature is not conducive to sperm production, should avoid hot baths, do not go to the sauna; men smoke too much can not only affect the quality of sperm, but also because of the wife passive Smoking can affect the normal development of the embryo and fetus and bring some major diseases, so you should quit smoking before conception and for a considerable period of time after your wife becomes pregnant.