Eating placenta may pose health risks, says research

The practice of ingesting placenta after giving birth has gained many supporters in recent times, being held by host and chef Bela Gil and also by Kim Kardashian's socialite.

The reason they get this technique called placentofagia is because it would bring benefits to postpartum. Some believe that ingestion of the placenta increases their levels of nutrition and may help improve mood and milk production in new mothers.

However, a recent study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology found that the act does not bring anything good and may even pose risks to the mother's and baby's health. "9" Placentofagia is a habit of non-human mammals to erase traces for predators that follow chicks. lack of resources available to animals soon after the birth of the puppy, when the mother can not leave the side of her pup, but must feed. Gynecologist and obstetrician Cláudio Basbaum

For analysis, researchers at the School of Medicine at Cornell University in the United States have reviewed previous studies on the consequences of placental consumption. According to the results, the ingestion of the placenta exposes the mother to bacterial infections, toxins and hormones accumulated in the organ, which can also impact breastfeeding, affecting the baby.

"As the pregnancy progresses, the placenta progressively progresses. is a structure made up of blood vessels and functions as an intercom element, allowing the exchange of what is produced by the mother, taking nutrients, iron, calcium, proteins, maternal immunological factors and making exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between mother and baby until birth, "commented Cláudio Basbaum.

According to the main author of the study, the professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology Amos Grünebaum, even in capsule and powder formats , most common in the market, the placenta may still offer the risks. In the US, encapsulating a placenta costs between $ 200 and $ 400. In June, a report from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) outlined the risks of ingesting placenta without heating it enough to kill bacteria present . At the time, the organ brought the case of a baby who developed a bacterial infection from the contamination of the placenta ingested by the mother.

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