What is Folic Acid?
Folic acid is actually a water-soluble vitamin, it also has a name called vitamin B9, mostly exist in animal liver, green vegetables, grains, etc., with the rise of living standards, modern young people are more and more picky diet, eat more and more fine food, resulting in many people have a lack of vitamin supplementation.
The state advocates eugenics and good breeding, advocates routine folic acid supplementation before pregnancy, pregnant women in the community and local maternal and child health hospitals can receive folic acid issued by the state for free, and many people have a mentality: expensive things must be good, cheap must be bad, then free is even less reassuring, and even some people will not dare to take this folic acid because it is too cheap.
So consider the question, why is this folic acid available for free?
Folic acid free distribution is a kind of national policy to benefit the people, folic acid is actually not free, but the state in order to reduce the burden of pregnant women and their families, improve the health of the child, to avoid the occurrence of due to the lack of folic acid caused by a part of the late irreparable disease, by the state to spend the cost of folic acid, and the state issued folic acid is a regular qualified manufacturers after bidding through strict quality control will be put into distribution, compared to most of the folate tablets on the market There are differences in taste and packaging, There is no overly pronounced difference when actually used for folic acid supplementation,
Why does the state distribute folic acid free of charge to pregnant women of gestational age?
Through big data monitoring, most women in the mainland who are trying to conceive belong to the folate deficiency population, and folic acid plays a vital role in the neurodevelopment of the early fetus, the lack of maternal folate in the first trimester of pregnancy is easy to lead to neural tube hypoplasia in the fetus, and the risk of congenital heart disease increases, a child with congenital birth disease may lead to a well-off family returning to poverty due to illness, and routine folic acid supplementation in 3 months before pregnancy can greatly reduce the fetal problems caused by folate deficiency.
For some families with relatively rich economic conditions, it is feasible to buy high-priced folic acid in pharmacies, but for more ordinary families, folic acid costs will be a big expense, and the national free folic acid has played its key role at this time.