Look out! - If you do not consume these products during pregnancy, you will cause neurologic damage to your child

Doctors have observed, through control all the neonatal involved, that one of the reasons for this absence lies in the wrong mother's diet regime, which causes newborns permanent neurological damage.

Pregnant women should consume only fruits and vegetables, including eggs, milk, and foods rich in vitamin B12, but more and more often it is noted that women choose to follow a vegetarian diet even in this period of their lives, regardless of the risks their children place before them.

It is important that mothers who lack this vitamin in their diet receive extras during pregnancy and breast - feeding.

Because it's a very serious disease and in many cases easily possible, correct information of mothers is an ethical duty that awaits doctors, media, and institutions. A serious information campaign could save a lot of lives”, says Ilaria Ciancaleon Bartoli, who heads the Core Disease Observatory.

Even pediatric associations, in particular the Italian Association of Pediatrics (SIPPS) and the Italian Federation of Patients (FIMP), have undertaken a campaign to remember that proper food is essential before and after birth.

The two associations, along with the Italian Association of Prenatal Medicine, have recently decided to deepen the problem of adopting vegetarian diets for child growth and neurocognitive development.

“For the child's proper development, diets that rule out milk and cheese and vegetarian ones are inappropriate, above all considering the neurological, psychological and motor activity”, confirms Andrea Vania, professor of Peditarianage at La Sapienza University in Rome.

Hence, since the first months of a child's life, the best choice is that it envisions the dominant consumption of plant food, and of course, one use - even limited - of animal products.