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If you’re planning a pregnancy, you’ll know that folic acid can help build a healthy baby. But do you know how much you need? And which other essential nutrients are known to help?

If you’re planning a baby, you’ll no doubt know that folic acid can help prevent defects of the brain and spinal cord, known as neural tube defects.

But folic acid isn’t all that you and your baby will need. Almost all vitamins and minerals, including calcium, zinc, magnesium and B-group vitamins play a role in the ultimate health and wellbeing of your baby.

Getting these nutrients in the right combination, in the right amount, can help give your baby a healthier start to life.

WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU NEED?
Some key vitamins and minerals recommended by the Ministry of Health include:
  • Folic acid (800 mcg) – to help prevent neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, which occurs when the two sides of the baby’s spine fail to close properly.
  • Iron – which helps carry oxygen in the blood, liver, muscles, tissues and cell enzymes.
  • Calcium – to avoid neonatal hypocalcaemia.
  • Zinc – to help prevent congenital abnormalities, low birthweight and impaired development.
Other key nutrients and recommended dietary intakes can be found in Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women: A background paper. Ministry of Health, 2006.

WHAT IS ELEVIT?
If you’re thinking, planning or are already pregnant, a specially-formulated pregnancy supplement can meet your body’s changing needs and those of your baby’s.

Elevit contains 18 vitamins and minerals, including 800mcg of folic acid as recommended by the Ministry of Health. It also includes 60mg of iron to prevent dietary iron deficiency in pregnancy, giving you and your baby a healthy advantage.

Thanks to its unique blend of essential nutrients, Elevit is the only pregnancy supplement clinically proven to reduce neural tube defects by 92%.

WHEN TO TAKE ELEVIT?
Elevit should be taken at least three months before pregnancy, as well as during and after (while breast-feeding).

One tablet taken daily improves your chances of a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.

Elevit helps ensure your baby receives the right amount of folic acid, along with other important nutrients, for a healthier start to life.
 
It is the number one pregnancy supplement in New Zealand,* and is only available from your pharmacy.



Only available from pharmacies
For more information phone 0800 847 874
or visit www.elevit.co.nz

*Data available upon request. Elevit tablets are a pharmacy medicine. Supplementary to and not a replacement for a balanced diet. Medicines have benefits and some may have risks. Always read the label and use strictly as directed. Consult your pharmacist to see if Elevit is right for you. If you have side-effects, see your healthcare professional. Visit www.medsafe.govt.nz for Elevit consumer medicine information. Bayer New Zealand Ltd, Auckland. TAPS NA2725


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