Anemia two generations of people who will bring disaster to the Maternal and Child

Anemia hazards

As menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, contraception, and other reasons,
Women of childbearing age become a high incidence of anemia special populations.

Pregnant women fetal anemia will affect the normal growth and development and the health of the next generation, high incidence of premature and low birth weight neonates. Pregnant women anemia, fetal liver iron storage less, the infant after birth prone anemia. Women of childbearing age, particularly pregnant women anemia, affects not only the health of mothers and easy to produce fatigue, the ability to work further to fall, serious heart disease will occur, such as anemia. Iron deficiency anemia is one of the major factors leading to maternal mortality, and 40 percent of maternal mortality in developing countries and related anemia.

Anemia and gestational age

Rural anemia prevalence rate in pregnant women pregnant 13 weeks ago to 26 percent, with the subsequent increase in gestational age increased prevalence of anemia, pregnant 37 weeks after as much as 54.4 percent. Pregnant women in urban pregnant 13 weeks ago anemia prevalence rate of 16.4%, pregnant 28 ~ 37 weeks reached a peak, anemia prevalence rate of 41.4%, but the pregnant 37 weeks later dropped to 32 percent, and rural vary.

Pregnant women with anemia gestational age increase was mainly due to:

(1) With the increase in gestational age, increased blood volume, blood relative dilution.

(2) in maternal fetal growth and development within the requirements of iron increased iron supplement mother relative shortage.

Pregnant 37 weeks after the prevalence rate of pregnant women in urban and rural areas of different changes in pregnant women may be related to the late urban prenatal examination revealed anemia treatment anemia to improve the situation. However, rural women have fewer opportunities for treatment, the prevalence of anemia in Late Pregnancy continue to increase, it must pay attention to the rural pregnant women in the third trimester of iron supplement.

The main anemia therapy

Iron deficiency anemia is the main reason, it added iron is the main method to correct anemia.

(1) The Food and strengthen the iron. Industrialized countries have long used the Food and strengthen iron measures to prevent iron deficiency anemia. In recent years, many developing countries have implemented corrective Food and strengthen women’s and children’s iron anemia. The food was strengthened with iron flour, maize flour, soy sauce, sugar, salt, and so on. China is implementing a stronger iron in soy sauce anemia prevention measures.

(2) to improve the diet. In animal food, the liver, blood and meat tofu in the iron content was high, absorbing good. Egg yolks also contain iron. The iron content in vegetables lower absorption poor, but in the fresh green vegetables are rich in folic acid. Folic acid in the production of hemoglobin, the lack of folic acid can cause large cell anemia, but also can cause anemia mixed. Therefore it is necessary to eat a certain amount of meat, liver, blood tofu, but also eat fresh vegetables.

The liver is rich in iron and vitamin A, folic acid are more abundant. Vitamin A on the absorption and utilization of iron have some help, a week to eat the liver is good for the prevention of anemia.

(3) oral iron. For moderate anemia, in addition to improved nutrition, can be oral iron treatment, such as ferrous sulfate, ferrous gluconate, ferrous fumarate and peacekeeping, such as blood granules.

(4) added folic acid. In addition to serving iron anemia during pregnancy, also taking small doses of folic acid daily 400 micrograms. Pregnant women taking low-dose folic acid is beneficial not only for the prevention of anemia, is also beneficial to the prevention of congenital neural tube defects and congenital heart disease, but it should be careful not to arbitrarily increase the amount of folic acid.

Other anemia therapy

Apart from nutritional anemia women lack iron, but also with menorrhagia, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, uterine built-IUD, repeated pregnancy, abortion and other factors related repeatedly. With chronic enteritis, indigestion, malaria, intestinal parasitic infections including AIDS, and chronic infectious diseases, is caused anemia causes. Apart from the above diseases nutritional supplements, it is necessary to hospital for treatment to remove the non-nutritional anemia factors.