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How to get free folic acid in China
Legal analysis: it is free to bring your ID card to a health center or community health service center. The state distributes folic acid to women of childbearing age free of charge.

1. After the husband and wife register their marriage in the marriage registry, if they are local residents, they can have a free marriage check-up, and then ask the doctor for folic acid tablets during the marriage check-up. Both premarital examination and folic acid tablets are free.

2. Folic acid is distributed to pregnant women and high-risk pregnant women. No one else has the right to receive it for free, and the doctor will not give it to you.

3. Pregnant women can get it at the local maternal and child health center with their personal ID card, and they can get it by directly registering their personal ID number and residence address. Usually six bottles are collected in six months and six months.

If the woman is not pregnant after 6 months, the hospital will not continue to give it to you for free. The doctor will instruct you to go to the hospital to buy it and continue taking folic acid.

The role of folic acid:

1, which can effectively prevent fetal neural tube malformation. Many expectant mothers haven't figured out what neural tube is. Simply put, neural tubes are spinal cord and brain. The fetus needs to develop and close the neural tube during the early development of the mother. If folic acid is not enough, it will cause abnormal neural tube closure, leading to congenital malformation of the baby, such as encephalocele, anencephaly, mental retardation, spina bifida and so on. A study by the Centers for Disease Control in the United States found that during the pre-pregnancy 1 month and the first three months of pregnancy, women who insist on taking 400 micrograms of folic acid every day can reduce the probability of neural tube defects in their babies by 50% to 70%.

2. Effectively prevent fetal congenital diseases, cleft lip and palate and other superficial deformities. Early pregnancy is an important period for placenta formation and baby organ differentiation. At this stage, the baby's cell division is in a vigorous stage. If pregnant women lack folic acid, it will lead to abnormalities in the baby's cardiovascular system, bones, mouth, eyes, kidneys and other organs, which is our common cleft lip and palate, congenital heart disease and so on. However, a study in Peking University shows that taking enough folic acid can effectively prevent the symptoms of phenotypic malformation in healthy infants and reduce neonatal mortality.

3. Reduce pregnancy reaction. Some expectant mothers said that after taking folic acid, pregnancy reaction was reduced, vomiting was reduced, and breast pain was reduced. In fact, folic acid, as a member of vitamin B family, can not only reduce the early pregnancy reaction, but also supplement the nutrition lost due to vomiting.

Legal basis: According to Article 33 of the Population and Family Planning Law of the People's Republic of China, family planning technical service institutions and medical and health care institutions engaged in family planning technical services shall, within their respective functions and duties, publicize and educate people of childbearing age about the basic knowledge of population and family planning, carry out pregnancy check and follow-up services for married women of childbearing age, and undertake consultation, guidance and technical services in family planning and reproductive health care.