Can pregnant women cook?

Pregnant women have higher requirements for some foods during pregnancy. First of all, pregnant women prefer to eat some heavy-tasting food, especially sour and spicy or spicy, but they dare not eat some irritating food during pregnancy. At this time, pregnant women consider cooking at home, so that they can make whatever flavor they want, and they don’t have to worry about other people’s cooking not being to their taste. So can pregnant women go into the kitchen to cook?

Pregnant women can cook.

Pregnant women can cook for themselves, and they can adjust their own meals according to their own tastes, which is also very helpful in increasing nutritional intake during pregnancy.

If you have early pregnancy symptoms, try not to go to the kitchen, as fumes and other cooking smells can cause nausea and vomiting.

However, pregnant women should try to avoid fumes when cooking. The burning gas and liquefied gas in the kitchen can release harmful gases. The combustion of coal releases a large amount of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and a large amount of dust. The coal smoke also contains the carcinogen benzopyrene.

The fumes produced by frying and stir-frying food are also harmful to pregnant women and fetuses. Therefore, the kitchen should be installed with a range hood to reduce the damage of harmful gases to pregnant women and fetuses. Pregnant women who have the conditions should go into the kitchen less often and shorten the time they stay in the kitchen as much as possible. The kitchen should maintain good ventilation.

Pregnant women should try to avoid cold water as much as possible. It is best to wash vegetables with warm water, or ask their husbands to wash them. Especially in cold weather, you should be more careful to avoid excessive cold water stimulating the uterus and inducing premature birth or miscarriage.

In addition, pregnant women should stay away from induction cookers when cooking. If you use an induction cooker to cook at home, pregnant women should try not to go to the kitchen, because the induction cooker will release a certain amount of radiation, which is not good for the healthy development of the fetus.

Precautions for pregnant women when cooking

After pregnancy, I still insist on going into the kitchen by myself. During pregnancy, expectant mothers need to pay attention to the following points when cooking:

1. Do not bend over or squat to avoid compressing your abdomen and affecting the health of the fetus, and do not let the stove directly hit your abdomen.

2. Since cooking requires gas and liquefied gas, and the gases and dust they release are very harmful to the fetus and expectant mothers, it is necessary to install a range hood. This can alleviate the excessive toxic gas inhaled by pregnant women. If possible, it is recommended to go to the kitchen as little as possible.

3. When washing vegetables or after washing, do not soak your hands directly in cold water to avoid catching a cold or causing miscarriage in pregnant women.

4. Pregnant women generally experience varying degrees of pregnancy reactions in the early stages, such as nausea and vomiting when they smell pungent odors. Therefore, it is best to stay away from rough cooking to prevent the smell of cooking fumes from causing nausea and vomiting, affecting appetite and thus being detrimental to the healthy development of the fetus.