In addition, the hormonal system also contributes to the change in the level of blood pressure. Normally, usually during the gestation of the fetus, there is a decrease in blood pressure, which is provided by pregnancy hormones. However, due to certain circumstances, there may be an increase, which is a violation. Let's consider this phenomenon in more detail and tell you about the dangerous high pressure in pregnancy.
What is meant by the definition of "high blood pressure" during the gestation of the fetus?
Diagnosis of hypertension doctors usually expose when the level is exceeded in 140/90 mm Hg. The same indicator is used in the diagnosis of the disease in women in the situation.
When most often during pregnancy there is an increase in blood pressure and what can it lead to?
In pregnancy, high blood pressure is more frequent in later periods than in early ones. This fact is explained, first of all, by the fact that as the size of the fetus increases, there is an increase in the load on the cardiac system of the expectant mother. In most cases, such a violation is fixed by doctors after 20 weeks of gestation.
This condition requires urgent medical intervention. Otherwise, all this can lead to negative consequences. So, for example, with high blood pressure after 20 weeks, which is accompanied by the appearance of protein in the urine, a state such as preeclampsia may develop. As a result, neurologic symptoms also join the above symptoms: dizziness, headache, mental disturbance, the appearance of seizures, disruption of the visual apparatus.
Also, as a result of increasing blood pressure, complications such as premature detachment of the placenta, partial detachment, which can lead to spontaneous abortion, can arise.
In addition, as a result of the so-called compensatory spasm of the blood vessels, in particular those that are located directly in the placenta and uterus, this can cause oxygen starvation, which in turn increases the risk of developing congenital pathologies in the infant.
How is the blood pressure level corrected during pregnancy?
Almost all pregnant women, when they detect high blood pressure, do not know what to do in this situation.
First of all, after discovering the like, a woman should report this to a pregnant therapist. In those expectant mothers who have a tendency to hypertension before the onset of pregnancy, blood pressure monitoring is carried out constantly.
In order to determine what can be pregnant at high blood pressure, doctors first of all pay attention to the term of gestation. So at the beginning of the process of bearing the baby, the correction of the blood pressure level is attempted without the use of medications. So, doctors recommend that a pregnant woman follow a certain diet,
Talking about how to reduce high blood pressure during pregnancy, it should be noted that from this violation doctors prescribe pills. Among such it is possible to distinguish magnesium-containing preparations improving microcirculation (Aspirin in small doses, Dipiridamol), calcium gluconate and carbonate. Antihypertensive drugs are not used often, because the effect of most of them on the fetal organism has not been studied. Among the group of these drugs can be identified only Methyldopa, which belongs to the category "B" (study of the drug was carried out on animals).