Foods to avoid during pregnancy-Advice about avoiding food-born bacteria while pregnant

When you are pregnant is more vulnerable to food-born bacteria. Some bacteria can be found on the finding of food can cause you serious infection, so you must be extra specially careful when it comes to what you eat.

What I have put together below is a brief overview of some of the nasties, along with what foods to cut out so that you avoid them.

Listeria can cause you a mild flu like symptom during pregnancy, but can result in miscarriage, still-birth or a serious disease in a newborn baby. It is best to avoid blue-veined cheeses like Stilton and soft mould ripened cheese Brie and Camembert, although they have been produced from pasteurized milk.

Salmonella can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. This does not affect your baby directly unless you become dehydrated as a result of it. Foods to avoid raw or partially cooked eggs, such as in home made mayonnaise, mousses and ice cream.

Campylobacter can cause you have stomach cramps and diarrhea. You can avoid this by steering clear under cooked meat and Unpasteurised milk.

Finish this short list there are also other bacteria that can cause food poisoning and affect you and your baby. Generally you will find these in raw or cold seafood so give it a wide berth.

All that said, I do not wish to be too freaked. The risk of the above diseases are rare. For example, Listeria affects only 1 pregnant woman in about 20,000 and very few women catch Toxoplasmosis. However, it is helpful to know that the parasite found on dirty vegetables, in soil and in cat faeces. Make sure that you wear gloves if you plan on doing any gardening or change a cat litter tray.