Maternal and infant psychology, nutrition and other preventive health care services should be organically integrated

According to relevant data from our newspaper (Reporter Wang Wei), about 5%-25% of pregnant and lying-in women in China are accompanied by perinatal depression, and the incidence of postpartum depression is as high as 13.

Li Liangqiu, executive vice president of the China Nutrition and Health Food Association, said: "With the gradual liberalization of the national two-child and three-child policies, the nutrition and psychosomatic health problems of mothers and infants cannot be ignored

At the meeting, domestic experts shared their views on the mental and physical health of pregnant women and infants

Wang Zhixu introduced the relationship between immunity and digestion and absorption and the early temperament and mental health of infants and young children, and affirmed the role of lactoferrin on the immune system of infants and young children

Lu Zheng, director of the Department of Psychiatry of Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, analyzed the current psychological problems of Chinese women and children, and pointed out that the mother's negative emotions during pregnancy and the gastrointestinal digestion level of infants and young children will affect the child's temperament and physical and mental health.

Chen Dunjin, director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, pointed out that medical staff in the obstetrics and gynecology department should actively pay attention to the physiological indicators and psychological state of pregnant and lying-in women in clinical work, and guide pregnant and lying-in women to exercise moderately and balance nutrition in an all-round way.

Chen Ge, President of FrieslandCampina China, said that with the launch of the FrieslandCampina Friso Meisujiaer Psychosomatic Health Research Institute, FrieslandCampina will build a health education platform to allow more research results and scientific concepts to serve the mother and child groups.

"China Food News" (version 3, June 15, 2022)

(Editor-in-charge: Han Songyan)