How to take sea buckthorn during pregnancy and lactation?

The waiting period for a child is an exciting and crucial moment in the life of a woman. Every future mother dreams of taking out and giving birth to a healthy child.However, no one is immune from disease, including a pregnant woman. In this regard, medicinal plants are of great interest for treatment, because the risks of using them are minimal, and the benefits are quite noticeable, because many of them have a multifaceted effect.

Sea buckthorn is one of these plants, it will help with many problems that may arise in a woman who is expecting a baby or breastfeeding her. On the properties of this plant, as well as on the peculiarities of taking sea buckthorn during pregnancy and lactation, it is worth telling in more detail.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that there are not so many plants like sea buckthorn which absorbed such a quantity of valuable human substances. And although in folk medicine the leaves and bark of sea buckthorn are used, the berries of this plant are the most useful, which contain the maximum amount of active ingredients. First of all, they are rich in vitamins and trace elements essential for pregnant women. Consider the composition of this culture.

• Carotenoids which are then converted in the small intestine into the well-known vitamin A. It is necessary for normal growth and development of cells and organs, as well as for visual function. In addition, the risk of overdose of this vitamin is significantly reduced when it enters the body of a pregnant woman in the form of carotenoids.
• Vitamin E participates in the most important processes of vital activity of the cells of our organism, protects them from destruction, improves the oxygen supply. It is necessary for the normal development of the fetus and the course of pregnancy, and its deficiency can lead to the threat of miscarriage.
• Vitamin C - it is a powerful antioxidant (especially in combination with vitamins A and E), which enhances the body’s resistance, provides iron absorption and the formation of the active form of folic acid. It plays an important role in preventing the development of anemia in pregnant women.

• Vitamins of group B provide the work of the nervous, cardiovascular system and intestines, are a necessary link in many processes of our body's vital activity. A deficiency of vitamins B1 and B6 in pregnant women occurs more frequently than other hypovitaminosis, and may be one of the causes of toxicosis.
• Folic acid supports blood formation processes, and its sufficient amount is necessary for the formation of the neural tube of the fetus, so it is important to prevent its lack.
• Vitamin K necessary for normal blood clotting and prevention of bleeding.
• Nicotinic acid (vitamin PP) participates in fat and carbohydrate metabolism, tissue respiration processes.
• An impressive list macro- and microelements (sodium, calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, selenium), which our body does not produce itself, but receives it from the outside, is extremely important for the health of the pregnant woman. These elements are part of many enzymes, hormones, and without them all the processes that support life in the human body cannot be carried out.

In addition to vitamins and microelements, sea buckthorn berries have many other active substances that can support the body and help it cope with various painful conditions. These are organic acids, pectins, bioflavonoids, coumarins and much more. An important feature of sea buckthorn is the presence in its composition of several types of omega-acids.

From sea buckthorn berries and their seeds, pharmaceutical factories produce oil, in which all the substances listed above are contained in high concentrations. This greatly enhances its medicinal properties compared with the fruits, so sea buckthorn oil is registered as a full-fledged drug, and is very popular and recognized among doctors, including gynecologists.

Having such a diverse composition, sea buckthorn can manifest many useful qualities in different directions at the same time, to be "a cure for many diseases in one bottle."

Sea buckthorn is capable of:

• stop inflammation, reduce swelling and pain;
• show antibacterial properties;
• enhance recovery of damaged tissue and accelerate wound healing;
• increase the elasticity of blood vessels, normalize cholesterol levels, decrease blood viscosity, improve cardiovascular and nervous system performance;
• serve to prevent anemia, as it contains substances necessary for blood formation (iron, ascorbic and folic acids and vitamin B12);
• to be an excellent natural source of easily digestible vitamins and microelements;
• support the immune system, which is important for colds, as well as for other diseases;
• stimulate local immunity, which is important for the successful treatment of many diseases, such as thrush;
• protect the body's cells from harmful factors and provide cancer prevention.

Despite such wonderful properties, sea buckthorn can be used not always, as there are a number of contraindications that must be taken into account before taking. In acute inflammatory processes in the liver, gallbladder or pancreas, sea buckthorn can harm, since its pronounced choleretic effect is not always desirable in these cases.

For some intestinal diseases with diarrhea, preparations from this plant must be taken carefully due to the laxative effect, which may complicate the situation. And if sea buckthorn oil successfully treats a stomach ulcer, the use of fresh berries or the juice of them in this case is undesirable because of the large amount of acids. Of course, if you are individually hypersensitive to sea buckthorn berries or any products from them, you should not take them at all.

Most modern synthetic drugs penetrate the placental barrier and into breast milk, so they can cause harm to an unborn baby or to an already born baby. For this reason, it is very important that the medicine for the treatment of the future mother or nursing woman is as safe as possible, and at the same time quite effective. Sea buckthorn is most appropriate in this case, because, due to its peculiarities, it can help with many problems that may arise during pregnancy and after childbirth. The use of sea buckthorn and preparations made from it, according to experts and women themselves, is effective, and in many cases allows us to do without chemical medicines.

Sea buckthorn will be very useful for conceiving a child. In the future mother's body, there must be enough vitamin E to maintain and strengthen the nascent life, folic acid for laying the neural tube and proper embryo development. It is very important that you have the right amount of calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium and other necessary building blocks for the formation of the skeleton, tissues and organs of the future baby. The use of sea buckthorn berries during pregnancy planning will allow you to get all these substances in the right quantity, also in a natural and easily digestible form.

During pregnancy, it is often the case that conception occurred when a woman has this or that disease of the genital area (colpitis, vaginitis, thrush). In this case, doctors try to prescribe first and foremost effective and safe sea buckthorn candles or sea buckthorn oil tampons.Pregnant women in the early stages (first trimester), while the fetal organs are being laid down, it is not recommended to use any medications, therefore, in the absence of contraindications, sea buckthorn will be useful in the following cases.

• Cold, runny nose, sinusitis. The general state of health will quickly improve if you drink sea buckthorn tea, and a few drops of sea buckthorn oil drip into your nose 2-3 times a day.
• Angina, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, stomatitis. If during these diseases to lubricate the affected areas of the mucous membranes of the mouth and throat with sea buckthorn oil, inflammation will quickly disappear and the pain will subside. Rinsing with an extract of sea buckthorn berries with the addition of herbs (calendula, chamomile) is also useful.
• Hacking coughwhich is especially undesirable in the second and third trimesters, can be calmed by taking a glass of warm milk with a teaspoon of sea buckthorn oil (a glass 2-3 times a day).
• Eating sea buckthorn berries or drinking juice from them is helpful. for the prevention of anemia in pregnant women, improve the tone of the deep veins and prevent the appearance of varicose veins.
• Low back painwhich often disturb pregnant women can be alleviated by rubbing it with an infusion of leaves and berries of the plant.
• Constipation, arising as a result of intestinal squeezing by the increasing uterus, can be eliminated with the help of sea buckthorn decoction. A tablespoon of seeds is poured with a glass of boiling water, kept for ten minutes on low heat, then the container is well wrapped and insisted for 2 hours. Strained broth can be drunk a tablespoon up to four times a day.
• Sea buckthorn oil works well as a prophylactic against skin stretch marksand, and as a medicine for any lesions (burns, wounds, dermatitis), as well as perineal ruptures caused by childbirth.

When breastfeeding a baby, proper nutrition and safe treatment of the mother do not lose their value, because almost all substances from the woman’s body pass into breast milk. A small amount of fresh sea buckthorn berries or culinary products made from them, included in the diet of nursing mothers, will strengthen the body weakened after childbirth and will have a good effect on lactation. It is important to start using sea buckthorn with a minimum amount, watching the baby, to eliminate possible allergies to the berries in the child. In the absence of an allergic reaction in the baby, the dose can be gradually increased to the recommended daily doses. Do not take sea buckthorn inside until the baby is 1 month old.

To improve lactation, a drink made from warm milk with sea buckthorn and carrot juice will be useful (for 100 ml of milk, 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed carrot and sea buckthorn juice). Drink twice a day for 30-40 minutes before putting the baby to the chest. Very often, at the beginning of the HV, painful nipple cracks appear in many women. Such unpleasant consequences of pregnancy and childbirth, such as varicose veins, hemorrhoids and rectal fissures, are also frequent. The use of synthetic drugs with a possible strong and fast effect is categorically undesirable, especially when feeding newborns (children up to 3 months).

Sea-buckthorn is used to prepare a variety of drinks, jams and jams. It is added to pastries, casseroles and salads. For the winter, you can make berries, freeze them, or you can mash them with sugar, put them in glass jars and store in the refrigerator.

• Tea with sea buckthorn. For 500 ml of boiling water, take 100-150 g of sea-buckthorn berries, stretching half with a fork. The crushed and whole berries should be put in the tea pot or any suitable container, pour boiling water and leave for 5-10 minutes.You can show imagination and add other fruits, berries or flowers with leaves (chamomile, mint, linden, a bit of black or green tea) to sea buckthorn, this property will make the drink even better.
• Mors From 200 g of fresh berries squeeze juice. Cake pour a liter of boiling water, add 100 g of sugar and boil for a few minutes, then add the juice, cool and strain.
• Compote. For three liters of cold water, take 400-500 g of sea buckthorn, boil and boil over high heat for no more than two minutes, close well and insist. Add sugar or honey to taste.

Peeled fresh sea buckthorn berries can be used as an excellent sauce for fish or white meat, as well as a vitamin supplement to salads.

Among the many recipes for the preparation of drinks and sea buckthorn dishes it is better to choose those in which the berries are subjected to heat treatment as little as possible, while their valuable properties are preserved to the maximum.

In the next video you will find useful information about nutrition during pregnancy by trimester.