Red wine during pregnancy - the benefits and harm

In the Asian regions, where grapes grow in abundance, winemaking originated more than 7,000 years ago. Then the wine was used as a medicine, to promote health, to improve tone. For the same properties and today, people appreciate this drink. Red wine is most often produced from black grapes. The skin of these berries contains anthocyanin pigments, which give the drink a characteristic red color.

Useful qualities of red wine

In previous centuries, red wine (only dry) has traditionally been included in the diet of future mothers. And now, many foreign doctors are convinced that a woman who sometimes drinks a small amount of this drink is more likely to have children with higher intellectual abilities who are ahead of their peers in the development.

Doctors recommend that when planning a pregnancy to use moderate doses of dry red wine, as its components can facilitate conception.The decay products of alcohol are contained in small quantities, are excreted from the body, and are not capable of harming the embryo.

Recognize all the positive qualities of this drink can be, if you familiarize yourself with its composition:

1. The drink contains biological active ingredients that have strong antioxidant properties. The moderate use of dry red wine prolongs life and youth, slows down the aging process.
2. Such a substance as resveratrol removes harmful substances - toxins, radionuclides, heavy metals.
3. Red wine can be used to prevent the onset of oncological diseases, with its help it is possible to slow down the growth of tumors. By drinking wine, blood circulation in the cancer cells is disturbed, preventing the tumor from expanding further.
4. The moderate consumption of red wine has a beneficial effect on the skin. The production of collagen fibers and elastin is improved. The skin on the face is tightened, wrinkles are smoothed, pigment spots disappear.
5. Dry red wine is used in diets for weight loss. It is able to break down fatty compounds, prevents the occurrence of cholesterol plaques, improves metabolism.
6. Red wine contains tannin tannin.This substance determines the shade of the drink and its quality. Tannin does not allow oxidation of the drink, being a natural preservative. When it enters the human body, tannin thins the blood, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, increases their elasticity. All this is a good prevention of diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
7. The flavonoids present in the drink are natural antioxidants. They are necessary for improving immunity, for cell regeneration, for the normalization of fat metabolism in the liver.
8. Red wine contains iron, important for maintaining normal hemoglobin levels in the blood. The drink has a beneficial effect on blood circulation, red blood cell production, vascular elasticity. Due to this, atherosclerosis, varicose veins occur less frequently.
9. Red wine can be used for weakened people after a serious illness or operation. With it, improves the appetite, strengthens the immune system. The patient recovers faster after the disease.
10. Wine contains many vitamins. It can be used for the prevention of beriberi, with chronic fatigue.

All these useful qualities can manifest themselves only if during the entire period of pregnancy a woman consumed only a few glasses of high-quality red dry wine.Doctors believe that an irresistible desire to eat any product or drink alcohol indicates a lack of any vitamins or trace elements. If we are talking about red wine, it is possible that the expectant mother does not have enough B vitamins. These vitamins or trace elements can be obtained with other foods that are not capable of harming the fetus.

Risk to pregnant woman

The use of alcoholic beverages, especially not of high quality, is capable of irreparable harm to the health of an adult. What to say about the health of an unborn baby?

The effect of alcohol on women's well-being
During pregnancy, the woman's body works in an enhanced mode, all organs are experiencing additional stress.

Alcohol use can cause or aggravate the following diseases:

• tachycardias, stenocardias;
• blood pressure jumps;
• mood swings, irritability, anxiety, insomnia;
• increase blood clots;
• bowel disorders (flatulence, diarrhea, constipation).

Alcohol is unacceptable to use pregnantwho are diagnosed with isthmic-cervical insufficiency. This pathology occurs in the second or third trimester of pregnancy. The ethanol contained in wine can soften the cervix, which can lead to premature labor. Excessive alcohol consumption during pregnancy dramatically increases the stress on the heart and kidneys. The consequence of this will be an increase in pressure, swelling, which can cause the development of preeclampsia and eclampsia. This pathology of pregnancy is extremely dangerous, requires immediate medical intervention.

The effect of alcohol on the fetus
In alcoholic drinks contain toxins that pass through the placenta to the fetus. They have a detrimental effect on the formation of the fetus, its growth and development. The danger is especially great in the early stages of pregnancy, when all the organs of the baby are only laid down and are especially vulnerable. In the future, such a child may experience mental and physical retardation, neurological pathology.

With regular use of alcohol by a pregnant woman, fetal alcohol syndrome may develop in a child. If present, the child after birth is already addicted to alcohol. Such children in the future have problems with social adaptation, in most cases they begin to drink from an early age.

Doctors are united in the fact that it is impossible to abuse any alcoholic beverage during pregnancy. But many believe that in the second and third trimesters a woman can sometimes afford to drink 100 ml of dry red wine no more than twice a month. It is important to remember that the wine must be of good quality. At the beginning of pregnancy, when the process of laying and the formation of all systems and organs of the fetus, is not worth the risk.

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