We are going out to eat Thai food tonight, and they have a sumptious green papaya salad. However, I remembered reading somewhere that green papaya could cause a miscarriage. After some Googling, I found confirmation at Wikipedia:
Women in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and other parts of the world have long used papaya as a folk remedy for contraception and abortion. Medical research in animals has confirmed the contraceptive and abortifacient capability of papaya, and also found that papaya seeds have contraceptive effects in adult male langur monkeys, possibly in adult male humans as well. Unripe papaya is especially effective in large amounts or high doses. Papaya is not teratogenic and will not cause miscarriage in small, ripe amounts. Phytochemicals in papaya may suppress the effects of progesterone.
No papaya salad for me for the next 9 months I guess....boo, hoo. So far my post-partum meal menu consists of margaritas and papaya salad...I wonder how long that menu is going to get by the end of this pregnancy?
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I just ate a green papaya salad and I am 2 weeks past conception. How much danger am I in? The salad was about a cup's worth of green papaya.
I just ate a green papaya salad and i am 2 weeks past conception. How much danger am I in? It was about a cups worth of green papaya.
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