NZU; THE PREGNANT WOMANS DELIGHT
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The Texas Department of State Health Services and FDA notified healthcare professionals and consumers, especially pregnant or breastfeeding women, to avoid consuming a product called “Nzu”, taken as a traditional remedy for morningsickness, because of the potential health risks from high levels of lead and arsenic, noted on laboratory analysis by Texas DSHS. Exposure to lead can result in a number of harmful effects, anda developing child is particularly at risk of effects on the brain and nervous system. Arsenic is a carcinogen, and excessive long term exposure to it has been associated with a range of adverse health effects, including cancers of the urinary bladder, lung and skin. Nzu, which is sold at African specialty stores is also called Calabash clay, Calabar stone, Mabele, Argile and La Craie. It generally resembles balls of clay or mud and is usually sold in small plastic bags with a handwritten label identifying it as “Nzu” or “Salted Nzu.”
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*Properties of Clay and Detoxification
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The reason for eating these weird things by pregnant women is called PICA, most times nausea follows the pica and they want to curb the effect with nzu, it’s more advisable to curb pica with low sugar menthol sweets or gums, sugar alcohols like sorbitol and xylitol which are a healthier options to nzu.