A variety of foods and medium weight
increase are best ways helping pregnant women prevent stretch mark.
How to prevent stretch mark is the question
that’s in many pregnant women’s concern. Knowing the reasons of stretch mark at
some level, can help you to prevent the risk of stretch mark and have suitable
treatments to smear the mark after birth.
Knowing
the reasons of stretch mark at some levels can help you to prevent the risk of
stretch mark.
1. The reason of stretch marks
Basically, stretch marks are the results of
the destruction of collagen and the skin’s elastic layer. At first, there may
be the feeling of hot flash in the skin, itches or even prickles to some
people. People who have stretch marks have low skin elasticity, which means the
older they gets the higher risk of stretch mark they have when pregnant. It’s
more popular to pregnant women who are over 35 years old.
Using
stretch mark cream isn’t as efficient as you thought.
It depends on the color of the skin that
the stretch marks appear in pink, sepia or dark brown. As the time goes, the
sepia will gradually disappear and the stretch marks will look like white
scars.
Practically, no ones can foretell whether
they will have stretch marks or not. However, gene plays a pretty important
role as every people inherit the skin forms from their parents, which means if
your mother have stretch mark when pregnant, it’s very possible that you will
have some when you’re pregnant. Moreover, people who are pregnant with Twins or
Triple will have more chance of stretch marks because their bump will be bigger
and the skin have to expand more to have enough space for fetuses.
2. Tips that help prevent stretch mark
A
healthy diet that is rich in vitamin A, C, E and antioxidants can improve the
skin from the inside.
Eat a
variety of foods
The stretch marks can be caused by lacking
2 main elements: vitamin and protein. Therefore, a healthy diet that is rich in
vitamin A, C, E and antioxidants can improve the skin from the inside.
Additionally, pregnant women can have foods that are rich in omega 3, such as
fishes that contain oil because they can better the skin health. Foods like
fresh vegetables, eggs, cereal, fish… have to be added to your daily diets. The
variety of foods can increase skin elasticity.
On the other hand, pregnant women should
drink lots of water. This is a way to preserve nutrient absorption to pregnant
women. At the same time, it’s also important to the beauty of pregnant women
and baby’s skin.
Control
the weight
A part from diets, pregnant women should
control their weight to prevent stretch marks. Still, there’re pregnant women
that mistake that they have to eat for two and try to eat really much. This is
an unreasonable concept. You should maintain a balance diet and medium weight
gain during pregnancy. The best way is to gain weight gradually because the
sudden weight increase is one of the reasons why pregnant women have stretch
marks.
Do
exercises
The skin elasticity will get better when
pregnant women do exercises regularly. While practicing, the oil glands under
the skin will secrete the sebum to prevent the skin from dryness, provide
moisture and limit the lacerations caused by stretch marks.
Yoga is recommended because it have many
exercises that are gentle and suitable to pregnant women. No matter exercises
do you practice, you shouldn’t stretch or strain too much at abdominal and
pelvic muscles or stretch the muscles too much.
Yoga
is recommended because it have many exercises that are gentle and suitable to
pregnant women.
Use stretch mark cream: Many people believe
that among skin lotions and body oil, there’re some that are advertised to be
dedicated to have anti-stretch ability and able to help them prevent or smear
stretch marks. In fact, those products can be useful in reducing itches when
the skin begin getting stretched and at some levels, help the skin maintain the
moisture better. Nonetheless, there’s no practical evidence showing that they
can prevent and reduce stretch marks.
3. Be careful when using stretch mark creams
Sometimes, using stretch mark creams is
just a supporting way, the efficiency of the cream also depends on the body
nature. Still, there’s no specialist or research claims that using stretch mark
cream can revive the skin. However, there’s one certain thing that using the
cream too much can lead to miscarriage or premature birth.
When applying the cream, pregnant women
have to rub and massage the bump. Rubbing and massaging during pregnancy leads
to uterine contractions. The more contractions you get, the higher risk fetuses
get pushed out, which can lead to miscarriage, uterine disorders or premature
birth. When you reach the final stage of pregnancy, the dangers come from
rubbing the bump get more serious. For the reason, pregnant women should avoid
rubbing and massaging the bump.
4. How can treat stretch marks after birth?
Laser
treatment is one of the best methods to remove the stretch marks because it can
rebuild the destroyed collagen.
It’s impossible to get rid of stretch marks
completely once they turn up, which means we just can limit them by combining
sensible diets and exercises. The stretch marks doesn’t relate to the health of
mothers and fetuses. This is completely an aesthetic issue.
According to the medicines, Laser treatment
is one of the best methods to remove the stretch marks because it can rebuild
the destroyed collagen. However, it’s not everybody can afford it.
Lately, some women treat stretch marks by
applying turmeric or ginger-turmeric-soaked wine on the stretch marks for 1-2
months. Those methods require the patience as you not only have to face with
the smell of the wine, but also the color of the turmeric that remains on the
skin. In addition, there’s no prove that confirm their negative effects on the
body as well as the positive ones.
