Preventable

= ﻿How can Spina Bifida be prevented? = ===Folic acid is a B vitamin. You can prevent Spina Bifida by taking 400 to 800 micrograms of folic acid. Women need to eat a healthy diet during pregnancy, including foods that contain folic acid. Some kind of foods that contain it are beans, citrus fruits, egg yolks and dark green vegetables. Studdies have shown that if all women in the United States took the recommended amount of Folic Acid before and during earl y pregnancy up to 70%of all NTD'S could be prevented. Also if the mom is not obese, is not a poor diabetic and/ or does not has a lot of Seizures then the baby is more proned to not have this disease. ===