Green tea during pregnancy

Green tea has an exquisite taste and aroma. In recent years, it has practically equal in popularity with black. Many women even during pregnancy are not ready to part with a favorite drink. Do you need to give up green tea for all nine months? Read below.

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Benefit

Green tea is simply indispensable for pregnancy:

It increases blood pressure, and several cups per day for hypotonika will be more useful than all sorts of tablets.
This drink is the excellent prevention of various inflammatory processes. It also replaces antibiotics, contraindicated during pregnancy, and strengthens immunity.
Tea aligns the balance of blood sugar and warns the development of diabetes both in the mother and in the child.
It regulates cholesterol levels.
Tea improves digestion and struggles with many illness of the gastrointestinal tract.
It contains a large number of antioxidants that have a common beneficial effect on the body of the future mother, especially on the heart and vessels. Also antioxidants prevent cancer.
There is informal statistics that claims that the use of this noble drink contributes to conception.

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Harm

Unlimited drinking green tea during pregnancy can cause great harmful to you, and baby:

Green tea contains caffeine, and not in smaller quantities than black tea or coffee. This substance acts on the body exciting and can provoke insomnia.
Caffeine in large quantities affects the development of a baby, slowing the formation of the body. There is a risk to give birth to a premature child.
Tea affects blood pressure, and it should be feared by hypertensive.
Doctors also believe that the habit of the future mother to caffeine is inevitably transferred to the child.
Tea makes it difficult to absorb iron.
Green tea is a strong diuretic.
Antioxidants contained in tea are destroyed by folic acid. The lack of this important trace element in the first trimester of pregnancy affects the development of the fetus and may even provoke the miscarriage.

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How to drink green tea

All future mothers are different: some of the pregnancy are held "on the legs", they are engaged in gymnastics and practically do not change the familiar lifestyle. Others - all nine months lie on the preservation. Therefore, to begin to discuss with your gynecologist, can you drink green tea. If the doctor is not against, then:

During pregnancy, at least twice, reduce the usual concentration or the amount of green tea, which drinks per day.
If possible, do not use green tea in the evening before bedtime.
Take into account other sources of caffeine: Do you drink coffee or black tea, do chocolate for the day.
Leaf tea, prefer packetized. Cheap tea bags do not drink at all: it contains a minimum of useful substances and may include various unsafe components.
Add milk to tea: It will increase the level of calcium in the body and reduce the harm from caffeine.
Put the lemon in tea, leaf leaf or mint leaves. You will receive an additional charge of vitamins and avoid early toxicosis.
Drink tea "in my own": no later than half an hour before meals, and no earlier than half an hour after meals. Such a regime contributes to the production of gastric juice, the prevention of the bloating and other problems with the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, vitamins and trace elements are better absorbed.
Alternate green tea with drinks from leaves and herbs: the same mint, melissa, black currant leaves or raspberry.