The most common way to eat hawthorn is to make it into candied hawthorn. Its sweet and sour taste makes people unable to resist drooling. Pregnant women generally prefer sour foods, so can pregnant women eat hawthorn? Let's find out together!
Hawthorn has the effect of stimulating gastric acid secretion. After pregnancy, the levels of progesterone and estrogen in pregnant women's bodies increase, and the pressure from the developing fetus can worsen heartburn in pregnant women.
Eating a lot of hawthorn at this time can rapidly increase stomach acid levels and concentration, which can easily cause acid reflux and, in severe cases, lead to peptic ulcers.
In addition, hawthorn contains a large amount of fruit acids, which have a contracting and stimulating effect on the gastric mucosa. After pregnancy, the spleen and stomach functions of pregnant women are weaker, and eating too much hawthorn can reduce digestive ability and cause indigestion.
Fresh hawthorn contains a large amount of tannic acid. Consuming too much can combine with minerals in the human body to form stomach stones. The harm of eating hawthorn is not only reflected in the damage to the pregnant mother's body, but also poses harm to the fetus!
In the early stages of pregnancy, acidity is low, and acidic drugs or other acidic substances ingested by the mother can easily accumulate in fetal tissues, affecting the normal division, proliferation, and development of embryonic cells, and causing genetic mutations, leading to fetal malformation and an increased risk of miscarriage.
Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and it has an excitatory effect on the uterus. Eating too much hawthorn during pregnancy can promote uterine contractions and increase the risk of miscarriage.
In the later stages of pregnancy, as the fetus develops and matures, the acidity and alkalinity of the cells in its tissues become closer to that of the mother's body, so the harmful effects are relatively smaller.
Therefore, pregnant mothers should avoid taking acidic drugs, eating acidic foods, and drinking acidic beverages, including hawthorn, during the first two weeks of pregnancy to avoid causing harm to the body.
