Posts Tagged ‘Pregnant’

February 25 2010

Itch When You’re Pregnant?

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1. Itching that occurs in the area around the belly is the effect of stretching the skin. The skin stretches to accommodate the growing fetus.

2. It could also be caused by hormonal changes experienced by pregnant women.

3. Not infrequently also grow mushrooms in skin folds such as groin. Fungi that causes itching around the creases.

4. Immune pregnant women is also declining, so the risk of developing allergies is very large. This is what causes allergic itching in the skin.

5. Tickle may also be a symptom of a disease or a separate disease. Skabies lice penetrate the skin layers which often cause itching on the skin.

6. Skin during pregnancy is usually more dry, this condition often causes itching of the skin.

7. Some time after birth, the complaint will be lost due to itchy skin stretch the stomach is reduced. Hormone production begins to return to normal. Later, if the mother was pregnant again, this could itch came back.
8. Itching during pregnancy is also often appeared in women who are talented so-called allergic urticaria pruritus. Symptoms include skin will look like biduran, swollen, reddish bumps, from small to large.

SELECT DRUG SAFE itching

1. If one wants to use drugs, you should use Calamine solution. Consult a physician specialists for other treatment.

2. When exposed to mild itching, quite overcome with a special ointment antigatal safe for pregnant women. While great for the itching, which caused rising levels of bilirubin and bile acids, doctors sometimes have to give up additional drugs. Usually kolestiramin containing materials, which can bind bilirubin and bile acid levels in the blood that was not to high. When you are bound by the intestinal kolestiramin, expected bilirubin and bile acids can not be absorbed and thrown out of the body.

3. When skin disorders that arise to cause infection or complications, then treatment will be difficult. Should be handled by a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology specialists and skin doctors.

4. Other drugs that may be used by doctors is a corticosteroid ointment and some antihistamine pills are safe for pregnancy. The use and administration of drugs should be careful, because the use of inappropriate drugs can cause abnormalities in the fetus. For example, the use of corticosteroids in early pregnancy can cause cleft lip in infants. That is why, consult your doctor medications that will be used while pregnant. Should be seen once the ratio between risk and benefits.
5. Avoid the use of drugs that contain cortisone, prednisone who belonged to corticosteroids because it can cause interference with the pregnancy and the fetus.

COPING TIPS itch

Here are tips from dr. Tina Wardhani Wisesa, Sp.KK. of Clinic Medika Sakti, Jakarta, a safe and comfortable to deal with itching and sore during pregnancy.

1. Solved according to the cause itching, whether itching caused by allergies, flea bite, or because it is affected by the condition of pregnancy.

2. If you or a family history of allergies, should avoid pencetusnya factors. If pencetusnya food, known to consume food that is safe.

3. See also the conditions and situation at home, if cleanliness is maintained. Condition dirty house is a comfortable place for the lice cause itching. Clean the carpets, too, sofas, and curtains with a vacuum cleaner on a regular basis.

4. Bath with warm water will relieve the itching of the skin.

5. Avoid wearing tight clothes during pregnancy, can cause skin irritation, in addition to the skin as well so it was easy to sweat, and heavy pressure. All that could cause itching in the skin.

6. Go take a shower twice a day and make sure all members of the body tersabuni correctly.

7. Dry skin can also be a trigger itching. After bathing, use emolien cream or lotion, especially on the abdomen where the skin stretched.
8. Itching often-so if the body sweats due to overheating. Therefore, avoid excessive heat.

9. Mothers often sweat during pregnancy. Therefore do not be lazy to change clothes.

10. Do not scratch the itchy skin. Actions that would cause itching had spread and become-so, so scratching grew louder and cause wounds that leave scars blackish. Also facilitate the existence of wound infection.

11. If you still want to scratch, do not use the nail, simply use a fingertip no nails, by pressing. Avoid scrubbing too hard to make your skin does not hurt.

12. Consume lots of water to replace sweat and body moisture to stay awake.

13. She also should diligently to clean folds areas damp enough. Clean with a routine and regular part of the vagina, armpits, under breasts, and ears.
14. Before bed, wash the skin from the dust and the remnants of cosmetics.

Source : tabloid-nakita

February 5 2010

Flu While Pregnant Can Infant Brain Damage

An advice given by Ezra süßer from New York State Psychiatric Institute (U.S.) to mothers who are pregnant to not ignore or consider trivial with the flu. Because Ezra see if the flu while pregnant attack will make the child has schizophrenia later in life.

Flu while pregnant when the time expected to damage the brain of the infant and raise the risk of schizophrenia illness.

In a small study involving 64 families. Ezra süßer found that mental decline in children is probably due to the flu suffered by the mother during pregnancy run the first three months of pregnancy.

If the flu strikes in the first three months and three months of the second half the level of risk only in the number 3. While the impact of the flu will not cause any risk of the pregnancy into the middle. “Our findings show a strong relationship between the newborn baby with the impact of the flu that could lead to schizophrenia.”

In previous studies mentioned that there is a relationship between pregnancy with schizophrenia in children when mothers experienced during pregnancy in two or three semesters. In contrast to previous studies that made measurements of the results of blood samples, Ezra doing research right from newborn infants, nutrition food, and a number of other factors.

64 families who researched by Ezra also experienced some schizophrenia, where a quarter of the mothers said they had the flu while pregnant. Schizophrenia is a common symptom associated with psychotic disorders are able to bring a reduction or logical thinking.

The signs of a person affected by this disease can be seen when they are teenagers or at the age of 20 years. Ezra also mentions damage to the baby’s brain occurs when the drug antibodies from the mother into the placenta and act to make the baby’s immune system.

But Ezra is also worthy of study dipertanyatakan in one case where the mother is also getting routinely vaksinansi while pregnant and if it used the plot would have an impact on the baby. Ezra süßer research results published by the Archives of General Psychiatry.

January 31 2010

Causes Miscarriage, Myths, and Prevention

Miscarriage in medical terms more commonly known as abortion. This term shows the expenditures of conception / fertilization until the age of 20 weeks or weighing less than 500 grams. The process may take a spontaneous abortion or artificial.
Spontaneous abortion due to many factors, namely:
1. Maternal factors (trauma and diseases in women: infections, hyperthyroidism, diabetes mellitus, smoking, consumption of alcohol and drugs)
2. Factors fetus (chromosomal abnormalities)
3. Environmental factors (pollutants, radiation)
4. Abnormalities of genes / chromosomes. Approximately 60-70% miscarriages occur because the sperm chromosomes are not in accordance with the chromosomes of eggs so that the fetus does not develop or develop abnormally. Miscarriage is the body’s way to end a pregnancy is not perfect.
5. Disorders and infectious content. Embryo fetus needs a suitable place to grow. Deformity or infection in the womb can cause a miscarriage because the embryo fails to stick.
6. Immunity. Maternal blood cells can form antibodies that prevent the normal development of the placenta.
7. The opening of the cervix. At the age of further pregnancy, the cervix opening too soon (before the time of delivery) can cause miscarriage.
8. Blood clotting (blood clotting). Some pregnant women have abnormal thrombosis (blood clotting) that prevents the formation of blood vessels of the placenta.
9. Other causes. Hormonal disorders, uncontrolled diabetes, smoking, alcoholic beverages and a variety of parasites can also cause miscarriage.

Based on maternal factors that most often leads to abortion is infection. In accordance with the natural mother’s complaint that the cause of the possibility of abortion is an infection of the genitals. But it might also be influenced by factors other. Infection in the vagina / vaginitis in pregnancy is associated with the occurrence of abortion or premature partus.

Various kinds of infections of the vagina, namely:
1. Vaginal infections due to bacteria / bacterial vaginosis. Unbalance caused by bacteria in the vaginal ecosystem. Usually marked by a whitish watery and smelly / fishy.

2. Vaginal infections due trikomonas / Trichomonas vaginitis. Caused by parasites that berflagela the trikhomonas. Vaginal discharge caused so many, purulent, foul-smelling and accompanied by intense itching.

3. Vulva and vaginal infections due to fungi / Vulvovaginal candidiasis. The cause of candida albicans is 85 to 90 percent of vaginal yeast infections. Predisposisinya factor is the use of antibiotics in pregnancy and diabetes mellitus. Discharge happens very peculiar cheese powder and very itchy. When you travel with chronic illness can cause pain and heat.

4. Infections due to inflammatory processes in the vaginal / inflammatory vaginitis. The exact cause is unknown. Symptoms caused a lot of vaginal discharge, purulent and cause symptoms of irritation / hot on the vulva and vagina with pelvic pain.

Given the many factors that lead to abortion, the mother should be checked out to be known for certain causes of abortion in the mother, so get the right treatment to prevent recurrent abortion in subsequent pregnancies.

Some of the signs of miscarriage include:
1. Bleeding from the birth canal accompanied by cramping or pain in the middle of the lower abdomen.
2. The pain intensified and continued for several days
3. Bleeding quite a lot, like when you are menstruating. It could be also just a rash but continued for more than three days.
4. Cramping pain in the lower abdomen.
5. The release of solids from the vagina.
6. The release of fluid without bleeding or pain, possibly because of the loose membrane content.

see signs above and doctors concluded a miscarriage, so we had agreed the mother was having a miscarriage.

80% of miscarriages are caused by genetic factors, namely the number of chromosomes due to discrepancy between husband and wife. For this we can not avoid, this is a law of nature and natural factors the death of the womb, for this reinforce our prayers, may not experience it.
Other causes are hormonal factors, can the hormone prolactin that are too high or too low progesterone. for this may be done hormone therapy.
Other causes are infections, such as TORCH virus, HIV, Hepatitis etc.. for this should be done before pregnancy blood test used to believe are completely free of the virus.

Additional most try to rest sufficiently, consumption of nutritious food, mothers do not get too tired, avoid stress, healthy lifestyles and call your doctor immediately if you experience bleeding or pain in lower abdomen

One in four pregnant women at risk of miscarriage, according to medical experts note, so do not overlooked this miscarriage risk, especially if this your first pregnancy. Every pregnant woman can minimize the risk of miscarriage, one of them by avoiding the cause.

Here are some causes of miscarriage myths you should know:

Sex. ”Pregnant women should not have sex on the first 12 weeks of pregnancy”, so many obstetricians advise. When in fact there are no medical studies that prove the sexual relations cause a miscarriage. So long as it does not hurt and does not cause discomfort, so be it.

Sports. Regular exercise in portions during pregnancy good enough for you and your baby. There is absolutely no risk of miscarriage, as long as you’re not too tired to do it. But you should not start a new sport you’ve never done at the time before pregnancy.

Air travel. There is no evidence that mention traveling on the plane cause a miscarriage, whether short or long trip.

Ultrasound examination. Many mothers fear ultrasound tests – including an ultrasound to check fetal development in the womb, because never heard ultrasound can cause a miscarriage. Actually not proven ultrasound can increase the risk of miscarriage, though indeed, some women who undergo an ultrasound several times during her pregnancy had given birth the babies are left-handed.

Sauna. A study in the 1970s sauna associate with a number of problem pregnancies, is the greatest risk of miscarriage. But this study confirmed no further. However, to prevent the fetus in the womb suffer from excessive heat. Sauna should be limited to only 10 minutes, and should avoid water that is too hot.

Coffee. Studies indicate if pregnant women drink more than six cups of coffee, tea, or cola per day, eat a higher risk of miscarriage. Therefore also the body naturally often sort themselves by “refusing” coffee in the first weeks of pregnancy.

X-rays. One-time examination with X-rays or X-rays during pregnancy will not cause a miscarriage, cause problems in pregnancy, or harmful to the fetus. However, doctors are usually very careful in the use of X-rays in pregnant women, and never recommending a series of X-ray therapy in pregnant women before the age of 8 weeks of pregnancy.

Using Computers. If the mother works with computers, do not have to worry about radiation monitors cause a miscarriage. The study was undertaken intensive and detail have shown there is no relationship between computer use with miscarriage or other labor problems, even though you all day typing on the keyboard once.

Use of Microwave and Oven. Recently there were reports in the media that mention microwave radiation chance of pregnancy problems, but this report is not supported by scientific research. This is well confirmed that there has been no research on similar electronic objects around the radiation pregnant women causes miscarriages.

Pull teeth. If you have patches of copper on your teeth, do not need to remove it during pregnancy for fear of endangering the pregnancy. Copper patches are allocated teeth do not contain mercury, which if exposed to mercury in the body of this amount is said with the risk of miscarriage. Medical experts also recommend that pregnant women not change the types of fillings on the spot

Prevention

As has already been submitted, miscarriage generally occurs without controllable. Mother’s womb strength strong enough to withstand the shock so that a miscarriage because of the trauma (impact) is rare. Also there is no evidence to show the influence of stress and sexual activity of a miscarriage.

If there is threat of miscarriage as bleeding in early pregnancy, prevention efforts may be conducted with adequate rest in a few days, reducing sports activities, and stop having sex in a few weeks. In 50% of cases, the threat of miscarriage can be resolved so as not to continue.

If the threat of miscarriage caused by the premature opening of the cervix, your doctor may be doing the sewing to close up again until such time delivery. Medical and treatment actions are also required when there are abnormalities of the uterus and cervix.