What should I avoid during pregnancy?
To have a healthy baby, there are a number of things a pregnant woman should avoid, including certain foods and medications. Get the list from obstetrician and gynecologist Evelyn Minaya, MD.
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If you are on medication, please check with your physician first before trying to get pregnant. There are some medications that do affect fetal development.
It is important for you to check with your physician first. [MUSIC PLAYING]
You should definitely avoid certain foods in pregnancy. Alcohol is number one. I don't care.
One drink is not acceptable. Any kind of alcohol is not acceptable-- not even a beer, not even cider, not even wine, nothing.
It is recommended that we don't have anything in addition to what our normal things are, number one. Number two, you should check with any kind of medication.
Really, the safest thing to take in pregnancy is Tylenol. No Motrin, no Advil. And all of those kind of medications
are actually called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories. You really should avoid any kind of medication. If you are on medication, please check with your physician
first before trying to get pregnant. There are some medications that do affect fetal development. It is important for you to check with your physician first.
You should avoid certain foods during pregnancy, for example, fish high in mercury. For example, tilefish, and raw tuna, and things like that,
you really should try to avoid because of the increase of incidents of mercury. Not only that, unpasteurized milk and also cheeses
such as brie should really be avoided in pregnancy due to listeria that you can develop, which is a bacterial infection that can really cause harm
to the fetus and maybe even death. It is important for you to check your predispositions if you have any questions about food.
Most importantly, everything has to be well done. It is important that you have really good food
that is not only healthy but also cooked appropriately. If not, you can increase your risk for salmonella and also E. coli, which are two really,
really bad bacteria that can make you very sick, not only to you, but it can also affect the fetus as well. [AUDIO LOGO]
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