Drinks to avoid during pregnancy
But only certain foods may pose a risk to your pregnancy. Also some drinks. You must avoid at all costs:
- Alcoholic beverages such as wine, beer and spirits, as it removes oxygen and nutrients to the cells thereby harming normal fetal development. Intellectual and physical effects of exposing a baby to alcohol, are permanent. So, avoid it forever! Continue reading
Foods to avoid during pregnancy
When you’re pregnant, feed takes on new meaning. Everything you eat and drink will affect your baby’s development for better or for worse. Therefore, it is essential that you know to choose a good balanced diet so that that little person that is forming in your womb, not lacking anything. In fact, during the nine months of gestation, on average you eat 300 calories more a day than you usually consume before becoming pregnant. Continue reading
Placenta Previa: The Risk Factors for The Development
Here are the risk factors for the development of a placenta previa:
Number of previous births
The frequency of placenta previa increases with a new pregnancy, to give us an idea, more than 80% of placenta previa was seen in women who have had children.High maternal age
Higher incidence was found in mothers over 35 years, although it is unclear whether this increase is because it is accompanied by a greater number of previous children.
Previous cease recently
It was observed that there is an increased frequency only in those cases in which women, after having a cesarean delivery becomes pregnant again within a very short time. Continue reading
Bleeding in Late Pregnancy: What is Placenta Abruptio?
What is placenta abruptio?
We must first know what a placenta and what is, to understand the importance of these processes. Broadly speaking, we say that the placenta is what allows communication between the fetus and mother, being the vehicle supply and oxygenation of the fetus. Therefore, any impairment in the placenta would affect the fetus, compromising even their lives.
- The incidence of this problem varies around one case per 225 births, accounting for about 25% of cases of genital bleeding in pregnancy, and perinatal mortality observed 20%.
- In the abruption, what happens is that the placenta begins to detach from the uterine wall before the fetus has left the womb, at which time vaginal bleeding occurs, causing a progressive decrease in oxygenation the fetus.
- Other symptoms associated with major bleeding, can be painful on palpation of the uterus, contractions of long duration and excessive intensity. Continue reading
Bleeding in Late Pregnancy
Bleeding within the last stages of pregnancy can include not only the genitals, but any kind of bleeding, tract, pulmonary, urologic, and so on., But in this chapter we will talk mainly of home blood loss genital, which appear in the second half of pregnancy (more than 22 weeks gestation), or when the estimated weight of the fetus is more than 500 grams.
What are the causes of bleeding in the second half of pregnancy?
No pregnant woman should downplay any suffering genital bleeding, however slight it may be, must immediately contact your obstetrician to assess the situation. Not all bleeding will have a tragic consequence for the fetus or the woman, so for example, there is little bleeding caused by excessive sensitivity to touch that shows the cervix to contact the penis during sex. Continue reading
Non-Specific Rashes During Pregnancy
Any skin disorder can appear during pregnancy. The skin lesions may be due to allergies, drugs, infections, tumors, connective tissue diseases, etc.. These skin lesions can affect anyone at any time, not just pregnant women. However, pregnancy can change the look and the consequences of some of them, and the reason that causes the injury may have harmful effects on the pregnant woman or fetus. During pregnancy, can improve skin conditions like psoriasis and hidradenitis and can worsen other as melanoma, pityriasis rosea, lupus, and Candida infections.
When to seek help
Some conditions that cause skin lesions are dangerous to both mother and baby, so it is very important to an abnormal change in the skin to see the doctor, especially if the pregnant woman is not good. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential in many of these conditions. Continue reading
Rash in Pregnancy
During pregnancy, skin changes are common. Many of these changes are normal and should not be confused with skin diseases. Hormonal changes, metabolic and immunologic occur during pregnancy can cause mucocutaneous disorders, but also pregnant women may suffer from skin diseases caused not necessarily by pregnancy.
What are the changes in the most common skin during pregnancy?
The skin changes in pregnancy are common:
- Generalized skin hyperpigmentation
- Melasma (mask of pregnancy): clearly defined brownish stains on the face, especially on the cheeks and forehead
- Darkening of the nipples and external genitalia
- Pigmentation largest existing moles
- Line nigra: a dark line that appears on the abdomen
- Striae gravidarum (stretch marks of pregnancy) that may appear reddish bands on the abdomen during pregnancy, which later become white, smooth and flat.
- Nevi aranei (spider veins): veins of the skin may become more showy varices appear frequently in the legs.
- Hypertrichosis: increased body hair. Continue reading
What Causes an Ectopic Pregnancy?
In a normal pregnancy the egg is fertilized by the male sperm in the fallopian tubes and from there it is transported into the uterine cavity where nesting occurs or implantation. This “transportation” is made possible by structures called “cilia” that have the cells lining the fallopian tubes. Cilia are tiny hairs as on top of the cell that push the egg through the tube.
There are a number of “risk factors” that make some women more likely to suffer an ectopic pregnancy:
Salpingitis or pelvic inflammatory disease
Women with a history of inflammation of the fallopian tubes (salpingitis or pelvic inflammatory disease) or surgical ligation. Inflammation or trauma cause a destruction of the cilia that cause difficulty in transporting the egg, which is nested in the tube. Continue reading
What is an Ectopic Pregnancy?
Ectopic pregnancy is one that is implanted outside the uterine cavity and, therefore, in a place that is not ready to receive the fertilized egg and allow further development. This is a viable pregnancy because, in most cases, the embryo dies early in life and even fails to develop. The most common site where it develops an ectopic pregnancy is the fallopian tube, in rare cases, the fertilized egg can nest in the ovaries, cervix or other body within the pelvis.
Since only the uterine cavity is prepared for growth and development of the fertilized egg, nesting outside this means that the development of the unborn baby will not be possible and may even endanger the life of the mother. Indeed, the growth of the egg inside the fallopian tube means, in most cases, an increase of the same but, since this structure is not equipped to hold a pregnancy, there comes a time when it breaks, causing internal bleeding to the woman who, if not quickly diagnosed and treated, can cause death. Continue reading
Pelvic Arthropathy in Pregnancy
What is pelvic arthropathy of pregnancy?
Because hormone action that occurs during pregnancy, pelvic joints undergo a process of relaxation and movement that ends up producing pain. The diagnosis of this disease is not difficult if we consider the existence of this problem and its symptoms.
What are the symptoms of the disease?
Women with pelvic arthropathy of pregnancy complain of pain in the pubic region, these pains are irradiated (target) to the English and the top of both thighs (front and back). The pain usually will increase progressively throughout pregnancy, exceptionally by suddenly. The pain of pelvic arthropathy can be as important to limit the mobility of the patient and her ability to walk, was forced to make small steps and the difficulty is even greater than the rise or fall. Pain may be worse when taking certain positions, such as spins in a lying position.
Women should know that his troubles will persist for an indefinite period after birth, disappearing afterwards. We note that in the latter stages of pregnancy all women will suffer a pelvic arthropathy to a greater or lesser extent. Continue reading