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Do pregnant women need sunscreen in summer

Sihaiwang: after pregnancy, due to the changes of hormones in the body, pregnant mothers will become more prone to pigmentation than before pregnancy. When they don't do a good job of sun protection, the exposed skin is easy to be suntanned, and the face is also easy to be exposed to a variety of spots. Some of the spots are hard to disappear even after a long period of time after childbirth. The whole person looks old. Therefore, it is very important to do a good job of sunscreen during pregnancy.

For pregnant women, the best way of sunscreen is to choose physical sunscreen, i.e. to cover and protect the skin through clothes, such as wearing long sleeved shirts, wearing sun hats, holding umbrellas, etc. when going out, if you can choose, try to avoid the period of 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., which is the most intense ultraviolet.

In addition to physical sun protection, sunscreen is also a protective measure. It contains some ingredients that can help the skin to resist UV damage. However, for the special group of pregnant women, the use of a variety of skin care products is very cautious. For pregnant mothers, they should be careful to use various skin care products during pregnancy, mainly because they are worried that some ingredients in skin care products may have adverse effects on the health of the fetus, such as retinoic acid. At present, it has been proved that large dose and high concentration of oral retinoic acid can cause fetal malformation, but according to the relevant requirements of China's "cosmetics safety technical specifications", skin care products will not be added directly Retinoic acid, but only its derivatives, such as a-alcohol, a-aldehyde, a-ester, etc., are allowed to be added. Whether these A-acid ingredients used in skin care products will have adverse effects on the fetus, there is no definite research confirmation at present. However, for the sake of safety, it is not recommended to use skin care products containing these ingredients during pregnancy, including sunscreen.

Is it necessary for pregnant women to completely refuse all kinds of sunscreen? In fact, if you need to stay outside for a long time, your pregnant mother can choose some physical sunscreen with simple ingredients. The zinc oxide and titanium dioxide in the physical sunscreen can reflect the ultraviolet rays, so as to protect the skin from the ultraviolet rays. How does your pregnant mother know whether the sunscreen is a physical sunscreen? Here we can teach you a way to identify the ingredients in sunscreen. If the sunscreen contains only zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, it is a pure physical sunscreen. If the sunscreen contains aminotoluene acid, benzophenone, vitamin A palmitate and other substances, it is a chemical sunscreen. After applying sunscreen, pregnant mothers need to pay attention to that they must wash the sunscreen thoroughly in time after leaving the environment exposed to ultraviolet rays. They must not be lazy. In the process of using sunscreen, if there is any abnormal skin, they should stop using it immediately. In the ultraviolet strong outside the house for a long time, if the skin has sunburn, the pregnant mother can use the cold compress method to reduce the skin temperature and reduce the burn after returning home.

In addition, when the pregnant mother's skin is suntanned or discolored, don't worry too much. Some of the discolored spots in pregnancy will disappear slowly after childbirth. If there are still some discolored spots that can't fade all the time, you can also ask a professional doctor to deal with them by medical means after the end of lactation. Don't use some whitening products in pregnancy in order to whiten them, so as to avoid the occurrence of Some whitening products add mercury, lead and other harmful substances to affect the health of the baby.