Importance of Vitamin B9 in Pregnancy

Recent studies have linked the consumption of folic acid with a lower incidence of heart attacks, cancer and diabetes, and has also been found useful in the prevention of some malformations of the fetal nervous system.

To understand the importance of folic acid should be made clear that the human body normally uses vitamin B9 for:

• Build the cells. During pregnancy, maternal body cells undergo an "overuse" as contributing to the development of the fetus.

• To prevent a particular form of anemia called "megaloblastic", characterized by red blood cells are larger than normal, yet contain enough hemoglobin, the substance that carries oxygen to organs and tissues.
If early pregnancy, folic acid reserves are low because of poor diet, during the nine months are likely to be completely exhausted, with the consequent danger of causing a megaloblastic anemia.

For this reason, it is important, since the beginning of pregnancy, schedule a gynecologist diet and consume, in the event that a need exists, the proper plugins.