Pregnancy has many accompanying phenomena - as if by itself increasing the abdomen is small. One of them - cramps in the legs, which happen mostly at night - when a woman is preparing to fall asleep or has already fallen asleep. A sharp strong pain is taken by surprise, the foot is unbent - although the feeling is just the opposite, it seems to be twisting. The contracted gastrocnemius muscle does not want to relax and does not allow the foot to return to its normal position. Even if the leg seems to release, in a second it can again reduce. It hurts, and it scares.

Seizures can appear from the first months of pregnancy, as soon as early toxicosis begins and associated vomiting. Cramps are associated not with nightfall and falling asleep, as is usually thought, but with deep relaxation of the body, that is, it can happen during the day when the woman sat down to rest or lay down. The main cause of their occurrence is a violation of the mineral metabolism in the body.

Mineral metabolism can be disrupted for several reasons. Microelements are now required simply more: the body must provide them themselves, as before, while the growing child takes his share without asking what the mother remains. He contributes his considerable mite and vomiting in the morning (and not only): a lot of fluid is lost - it is filled up, but the minerals dissolved in it, obtained with food the day before, including those that form part of the digestive enzymes - are withdrawn from the exchange , which provokes nutritional errors when a woman "turns away" from many products and makes up a menu that is not able to balance the mineral metabolism. Often the lack of one trace element provokes a deficiency or poor digestibility of another, so it can not be said that convulsions arise from the lack of any one substance - as a rule, this is a complex problem.

The lack of potassium negatively affects the body, since it is present in every living cell. Prolonged, frequent vomiting, diarrhea, as well as improper intake of some diuretics used alone to reduce weight on the eve of medical examination - any excessive loss of liquid - are dangerous due to the appearance of a deficiency of this substance. Coffee in large quantities can also lead to the elution of potassium, which, except for seizures, causes:.

> Rapid fatigue;.

> occurrence of constipation;.

Edema;.

> lowering of blood pressure;.

> Thirsty and unpleasant dryness in the mouth, rough lips, dry skin;.

> Acne rashes;.

> Depressed mood;

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> increase in cholesterol in the blood;.

Heart palpitations.

Potassium is found in any food products, in some more, in some less. The most rich in them are dried apricots - dried apricots and apricots, melons, bananas, beans, potatoes, broccoli, beef liver, milk, cottage cheese, cheese. In a day it is enough to receive about 4-5 g of potassium, and a full-fledged diet completely covers this need.

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