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
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
Spots on the skin during pregnancy
Why are stains on the skin?
During pregnancy there is a large increase in melanocyte hormone, which stimulates skin pigmentation when exposed to sunlight.
Where do they appear?
These spots usually appear in normally pigmented areas such as nipples, areolae, freckles, the linea alba (between the umbilicus and pubis), armpits, and vulvar ano.También often appear in his face, upper lip, nose and front.
These spots usually disappear after a few months after childbirth, although sometimes they do not completely.
What is the dark line that forms from the pelvis to the navel in pregnancy?
That dark line is the linea alba is due to hormonal changes of pregnancy,
but can also be reached in other situations, such as making some
contraception. The appearance of it carries no risk and is totally reversible after the end of pregnancy or lactation period
How can I prevent mold and mildew?
While you can not stop this hyperpigmentation, help prevent overexposure to sunlight, avoiding the hours from 10 to 16 hours. And it’s recommended to use sunscreen.
Can I use bleaches?
In the case of wanting to hide or disguise some of these stains, cosmetics are useful, but should never be used depigmentantes agents, unless medically indicated, and once the pregnancy. Hyperpigmentation is attenuated or disappears several months after birth.
A legal or illegal Flat or inverted nipples when breastfeeding
Many women have flat or inverted nipples, those are nipples do not protrude too much of the areola, or look for outside seating to retract back.
A woman’s body changes during pregnancy as the breasts grow during the third trimester of pregnancy, your nipples may change, and become normal.
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