Category Archives: Pregnancy
Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension: Drug Treatment
There are different types of drug treatment: Rest and sedation will be the first step to try to control the blood pressure if it is mild not require hospitalization, maternal-fetal controls will be made within the periods established by the obstetrician. When the box is moderate or severe, will be used a number of antihypertensive [...]
Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension: Levels of Pre-Eclampsia
Several levels of pre-eclampsia in terms of signs and symptoms and the severity of them: Doctor visits – Pregnancy – Down Syndrome Risk – Risk of fetal malformation – Pain during pregnancy – How to calculate the weeks of pregnancy There are pictures very slight adequately controlled with rest, and allow the arrival of the [...]
Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension
What is pre-eclampsia? When after the twentieth week of gestation, the pregnant woman has high blood pressure, fluid retention with edema and protein loss in urine, it triggers the table is known as pre-eclampsia. Not always happen the three groups of clinical signs and symptoms. It is a picture that requires a very strict control [...]
Exercise for Healthy Pregnancy
The practice of exercise during pregnancy improves cardiovascular fitness, muscular and posture, as well as avoid excessive weight gain, improve blood pressure levels and protect against gestational diabetes. It also helps to relieve digestive problems so characteristic of pregnancy and constipation and mental well-being increases, reducing the degree of anxiety and depression. Similarly, it is [...]
Pregnancy with Heart Problems: Childbirth and Postpartum
If the patient is receiving anticoagulant therapy for prosthetic valve being a carrier, it should be suspended within 12 hours of delivery and restarted between 6 and 12 hours later. Also, as usual, given prophylaxis against bacterial endocarditis if the patient suffers from congenital heart disease: from the American Heart Association, as if the mother [...]
Pregnancy with Heart Problems: Regular strict control
Its control is based on prevention, identification and treatment of maternal and fetal complications A healthy woman tolerated in general, the changes in your body throughout pregnancy. However, these changes can lead to decompensation in the heart of a pregnant woman with a history of heart disease. If the risk is very high for the [...]
Obesity in pregnancy
It is considered a fat pregnant woman who starts pregnancy at a mean overweight of 20% or more for your ideal target weight. To consider a pregnant obese takes as a parameter an increase of more than 15 kilograms at the end of gestation. Being either case, both are more likely to suffer complications during [...]
Influenza A (H1N1) in pregnancy
Here are some frequently asked questions are formulated pregnant swine influenza-related: 1 – What is recommended to the common flu vaccine during pregnancy? It is advisable to apply the common flu vaccine in cases where the pregnant woman is in his second or third trimester in winter and flu season. 2 – What extra precautions [...]
Antibiotics cause birth defects
A study on antibiotic use by pregnant women found a surprising link between antibiotic commonly used to treat urinary infections and certain birth defects. The most widely used antibiotic in the early stages of pregnancy, penicillin, seems to be the least harmful. Bacterial infections untreated can cause disruption to the fetus, experts said. Therefore, mothers [...]