Saturday, 24 March 2018

Maternal diet – A Direct Link of Child Development


 Maternal diet – A Direct Link of Child Development



The Maternal diet during and before pregnancy is responsible for the weight, colour, psychological health etc.
The diet consumed by the female should be proper, as our researchers keep us updating with the better healthcare facts and studies, here is the one again that low carbohydrate diet leads the neural tube defects or can lead to various birth defects.
Neural tube defects are group of birth defects, spinal cord disformations, malformations of the brain, spine, and spinal cord. In this the specialized cells on the dorsal side of the embryo begin the change in their shape start developing before birth and include spina bifida, wherein the spinal column does not close completely, and anencephaly i.e.large portions of brain and skull are absent.
There are two types of NTD’s: Open and Closed.
·        Open NTD’s are when the exposure of spinal cord occurs as defect through the malformations in the skull. Some of the defects of open NTD’s are like anencephaly, encephaloceles, hydranencephaly, iniencephaly, schizencephaly, and spina bifida.
·         Closed NTD’s are the part of rare disease, it appears when the defect is through the skin some of them are like ipomyelomeningocele, lipomeningocele, and tethered cord.
The folic acid, a carbohydrate can reduce the risk of NTDs in babies. As this foliate can massively decrease the risk of NTD’s. All grains and cereals should be enriched with 140 micrograms of folic acid per 100 grams of product by January 1998, concluded by Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
This initiates the women to consume some supplements of folic acid during pregnancy instead of consuming it naturally.
There is still much on this topic, to develop a clear understanding of the mechanisms involved.



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