Can i eat cooked and peeled prawns during pregnancy that are frozen?

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Louise

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Prawns are high in mercury, which can build up in your blood and cause damage to your unborn child. That applies to all prawns - cooked and frozen or fresh. The cooking process or storage method does nothing to get rid of the mercury - nothing can get rid of it!

However, if you really enjoy them, go ahead and have them. Plenty of people ate shellfish while pregnant before the research was carried out. Many people drink to excess and smoke heavily during pregnancy and have healthy children! Surely, feeling deprived or guilty for enjoying yourself is worse in the long run! Your emotions can also have an effect on your baby, so you need to relax and allow yourself some enjoyment.

It's all a matter of chance whether anything happens to your baby, whether or not you stick to all the "rules" - Do you feel lucky punk? Well do ya?
 
I am so confused with whether i can eat prawns or crabsticks or any fish during pregnancy?? I love prawn cocktails and want to know if i can eat prawns if they are cooked but are frozen. Or is it better to buy fresh prawns?? I love ready made prawn cocktails from tescos and am craving them badly but dont know if can eat them?? please help me with any prawn or crabstick info you have. Thanks
 
You have to be concerned about the iodine levels in seafood, such as prawns and shrimp. I think in moderation it is OK, but not too much. Check out the WebMD page for more information.
 
Yes you can eat them just limit yourself to once a week due to mercury levels but once a week is just fine. I live in Louisiana and we are swimming in fresh seafood and I never stopped eating it when I was pregnant nor did I limit myself on weekly amounts of shrimp but you can't be too careful. Also try not to eat any seafood from china because you never know what that is going to have in it. Try to find some gulf shrimp if you can.
 
Oh my god
has the nation lost it's logic - - common sense - -
you can eat fish and seafood products anytime except if your allergic..

Do you realize how stressed your are over some radical facts about food that you Fear just because your pregnant - - that otherwise YOU never even contemplated
Watch out for the fear mongers that love to point out chemicals and weird names
Please good luck and be happy---D - - W- -
Edit - sorry
were you going to eat frozen prawns. .
or you typed it wrong and ment
"that were frozen"
 
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