"Congratulations, Ma Zhang, your daughter-in-law gave birth to a fat boy for you." As soon as she said this, Ma Zhang's face darkened and she said in a muffled voice: "Don't mention it. I said I wanted to get the placenta back to replenish my body, but my wife refused to beat her

"Congratulations, Ma Zhang, your daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy for you." As soon as Ma Liu saw Ma Zhang, she quickly congratulated her.

Mother Zhang was already so happy that she couldn't stop talking, and kept saying, "Thank you, thank you!"

Mother Liu pulledMother Zhang next to her and asked quietly, "I'll ask you, how did your family deal with placenta ?" As soon as

said this,Mother Zhang's face darkened and she said in a muffled voice: "Don't mention it, I said I want to get the placenta back to nourish my body, my wife He refused to be beaten to death. In the end, he could only listen to her and let the hospital deal with it. "

Liu Ma also looked a pity and said, "It's really a waste of things. is a good thing to nourish the body !"

The reason why Liu Ma and Zhang Ma think that the placenta is a body intensive thing is because this statement has been circulating among the people, especially those living in rural areas believe it. However, do you understand the placenta? Is the saying circulating among the people true or false? Where did the placenta that was not taken away go? Next, I'll tell you the real answer.

1. Do you know about the placenta?

placental mainly refers to an important organ that exchanges substances between the mother and the fetus. It is the joint organ between mother and child tissue formed by the joint growth of endometrium and embryonic embryo membrane during pregnancy. The placenta is mainly composed of amniotic membrane, leaf chorionic and bottom decidua , which contains a large amount of hormone and nutrients .

Placenta is not an organ that women themselves have. Instead, they have to wait until 6 to 7 weeks after pregnancy, and they will not be fully formed until about three months.

When the full-term pregnancy is reached, the placenta will grow into a marginal or oval shape, and its weight is about 500~600g. The placenta looks like a meat patty with thin edges and thick middle, with a diameter of between

6 and 20cm and a thickness of between

Placenta can help the fetus exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen in the uterus. Provide fetuses with nutritional elements such as glucose , fatty acids, electrolytes, vitamin or amino acids . The metabolites produced by the fetus mainly include muscle liver, creatine , urea , uric acid , etc. These metabolites will enter the mother's blood through the placenta and then be discharged out of the body.

Not only that, the placenta also has the function of to protect the fetus and maintain pregnancy and immune. will become more and more mature as the pregnancy increases. Once the placenta matures to level 3, it means that the highest maturity has been reached. Continuing pregnancy may gradually age and its function will be weakened accordingly. Therefore, after is reached during pregnancy, it is best to prepare for delivery.

2. Folk legend: Is the placenta true?

Folk rumored that the placenta has great tonic effects. It can not only replenish qi and blood , strengthen body , but also beautify and nourish skin and anti-aging. It is simply the king of tonics. For this reason, some people even spend a high price to buy the placenta, make it into food and eat it, with the purpose of becoming healthier and younger.

However, the reason for this is that it is mostly related to the function of placenta . Because the placenta provides nutrition to the fetus, it must have very rich nutrition and is also human tissue, which is easier to absorb by the human body after eating. However, this statement is not correct.

In fact, as early as ancient times, traditional Chinese medicine made the placenta into a Chinese medicine. The placenta is called " Ziheche " by traditional Chinese medicine, and is a traditional Chinese medicine with high medicinal value. After delivery, remove the fresh placenta from amniotic and umbilical cord , rinse it repeatedly with clean water, and then drain the blood and put it into boiling water. After special processing, it is dried and stored. When it is to be used, it is ground into powder and then used as medicine.

Ziheche made from placenta belongs to warm medicine , which can enter heart, lung, kidney meridians. Therefore, it has the effects of nourishing qi and nourishing blood, nourishing essence and warming the kidneys. If you experience loss of appetite, dizziness, chest tightness, , asthma, blood deficiency, kidney deficiency, fatigue, etc., you can use Ziheche and other drugs for treatment under the guidance of a doctor.

In addition, Ziheche also has certain efficacy on reproductive system disease . Patients with reproductive system diseases have frequent urination , urgency, urinary retention , etc., and can take medication under the guidance of a doctor. Because Ziheche contains interferon , it can enhance human immunity and better resist viruses and infections.

In addition, there are more iron element in Ziheche. After taking it, you can improve symptoms such as anemia, dizziness, and . From this point of view, the Zihe Cart made from the placenta does have great tonic effects and is a good medicine to nourish the body.

But everyone should pay attention! What I am talking about is not a placenta supplement, but Ziheche , which is processed from the placenta, which has the effect of a great supplement. What I want to emphasize is that the placenta needs to be treated with special treatment before it can be used for medicinal use! It is not what the folks say, make the placenta into dishes and eat it.

It should be noted that the placenta of medicinal should be the fresh placenta for healthy mothers. If the mother has a disease, the placenta is not suitable for medication. Moreover, if you want to make it into a medicine, you must undergo special processing. If it is not cleaned, it will be dried, and the efficacy of the medicine will be affected.

What is more worth mentioning is that taking into account both ethics and security, in 015, Zihe Car has been removed from the new version of "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" . Although Zihe Carrier has certain medicinal value, it is a human organ and has the risk of carrying infectious diseases, so it is not suitable for medication.

is visible, not to eat placenta to nourish the body. The folk saying that the placenta has a great tonic effect, but it is actually not completely correct. Because everyone's physical condition has individual differences, not everyone is suitable for supplementing with the same method. If you really want to take supplements, it is best to correctly adjust your diet structure or take medication under the guidance of a doctor to avoid improper supplements, which will hurt your body even more.

From the ingredients, the placenta does contain a large amount of protein , hormones, iron, magnesium, enzyme and other elements, but it does not mean that after eating the placenta, the body can turn these elements into its own. Moreover, most of the nutrients in the placenta after ten months of pregnancy have been absorbed by the fetus, and after delivery, the nutritional content of the placenta will naturally be greatly reduced.

, especially the mature placenta that has reached the third-level has gradually aged, and is even in the stage of calcifying in , and its nutritional value is even slim. After giving birth, taking the placenta as food will not only make it difficult to help the body replenish nutrition, but if it is not cleaned or the mother has a disease, the placenta may become a pathogenic .

Because the placenta itself contains a large amount of hormones, people with sufficient hormone levels will increase hormone levels after taking the placenta. For example, if the estrogen level in women exceeds the normal level, it will increase the incidence of diseases such as breast hyperplasia , endometrial hyperplasia, ovarian cyst ; if the estrogen level in men is too high, it may also cause prostate disease ; if children eat it, it may also cause premature puberty of .

If the placenta is not properly processed, there are still bacterial or viruses left. After taking , the risk of infection will increase. If a woman who gave birth suffers from infectious diseases such as hepatitis B, AIDS , she may also be infected by such diseases after eating the placenta, causing unnecessary trouble to herself.

3. After giving birth, where did the placenta go?

In 2005, the Ministry of Health issued the "Request for How Medical Institutions for Maternal Delivery of Placenta after Maternal Delivery", which clearly stated that should prohibit the sale of human organs , so the placenta after Maternal Delivery should be decided by the mother themselves.When the mother is admitted to the hospital, she will sign a placenta disposal consent form.

Taste children is a major event in life, and the family is immersed in the joy of having children. The placenta, which once silently provided nutrition to the fetus, had various outcomes.

. Take home for treatment

Some mothers and their families believe that the placenta is the flesh that falls from the mother's body, so they are unwilling to let the hospital handle it on their behalf, so they will take the placenta home. Some people will clean the placenta and make it into food and eat it. Some people will also bury the placenta on the roadside or under a big tree to pray for the healthy growth of the baby; or throw the placenta into the water, hoping that the baby will be as smooth as a fish in water for the rest of his life.

Some mothers and their families were unwilling to let the hospital handle the placenta and sold the placenta to the pharmaceutical factory. Because the placenta contains a large amount of protein, immune factor , stem cell and other ingredients, the manufacturer extracts it and makes it into capsules, which enters the market as a health care medicine. However, as a human organ, private buying and selling is prohibited, which is an illegal act. Everyone should be careful not to commit the crime of illegal business operations.

If the mother himself suffers from an infectious disease, the doctor will recommend that the placenta with the source of infection be destroyed or sent to the pathology department for pathological section .

For non-infectious placenta, the mother will leave the placenta in the hospital and will also be classified as medical garbage , and will be specially processed through .

placenta left in the hospital will be sealed in a plastic bag of yellow medical garbage. After the medical garbage truck pulls it away, it will recycling or verification according to the medical garbage standards. Because the treatment standards for medical waste are very high, treating the placenta through the hospital is also the most scientific way to deal with it.

Although the practical value of the placenta is denied, the medical value of the placenta still exists because the stem cells in the placenta belong to the most primitive blood cells in the human body. After induction, it can differentiate into various forms, and even improve the body's immunity.

Therefore, in recent years, a kind of storage umbilical cord blood has emerged, which means that the placenta is handed over to a professional institution, and medical personnel extract the blood in the placenta and umbilical cord, and then store the blood for a long time. The remaining placental entities are also disposed of as medical garbage .

hematopoietic stem cells in umbilical cord blood can help the human body rebuild the immune system and hematopoietic ability. Moreover, the gene specificity of umbilical cord blood can also be used to treat immune system disease or blood disease . At the end, these placentas have played their final value, which is a devastating place.

Warm tips

To sum up, after giving birth, the placenta may be eaten by , buried in the soil, and placed in the river , or may be made into drugs by and disposed of as medical garbage . After the placenta is specially processed, although it has a great tonic effect on the body, it is unethical and may also endanger health. It is recommended that you do not eat the placenta, let alone buy and sell the placenta. Have you heard of the placenta supplement in front of the screen? How do you deal with the placenta after giving birth? Welcome to leave a message below, we can discuss it together.

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【2】. "Another talk about placental function". Chinese Journal of Obstetrics and First Aid Electronics. Li Li, Han Jian. 2013-02-18