At each visit to the doctor to a pregnant womanmeasure pressure. This is an important indicator of the health of both mother and baby. Ideally, pressure should be measured once a week. But in Russian clinics, this is done only during a routine inspection, that is, about once every three weeks. With the slightest deviations, this should be done every day and even several times a day. It is very good to get a tonometer in advance in order to monitor the pressure at home on your own.
Normal pressure in a healthy adulthuman is 120/80 mm Hg. st. If, before pregnancy, a woman had just such pressure, then during gestation period it should not rise to 140/90 and decrease to 90/60. This is an average figure. For some people, in normal condition, the “working” pressure is very different from the norm. Therefore, during pregnancy it will change in other limits. Well, when a woman is still at the planning stage, she measures the pressure to determine the “working” rate.
When a new life appears inside the expectant mother,load on the body increases. Now we need additional reserves that go to the growth and development of the baby. The metabolism is intensified, the volume of circulating blood increases, the metabolism changes, even the heart is located differently. All this is necessary for the baby to be born healthy. If changes in the mother's body entail hypertension or hypotension, the fetus suffers first. It is very important to take immediate steps to stabilize your condition. But the difficulty is that almost all drugs that lower blood pressure during pregnancy contraindicated.
In pregnant women, often indicatorspressure deviates from the norm. It is important to take readings regularly and do it correctly. It does not make sense to take a tonometer immediately after physical exertion, for example, climbing stairs. Nervous tensions, stresses, too, will not give an objective picture. To make the picture accurate, you need to prepare in advance, sit in a chair or in a comfortable chair for about 15 minutes, calm down. And only then turn on the tonometer. Drinking tea or coffee, even without caffeine, before the measurements are also not worth it. Hot fluid can also increase pressure for a short time. It is generally better to take measurements at the same time, for example, before bedtime. During the measurement, the hand should be approximately at the level of the heart or slightly below. Clothing must be loose.
Often the pressure rises due tooverwork or hereditary predisposition. But sometimes this symptom can signal pathological conditions of both mother and fetus, the most dangerous of which is preeclampsia. If there is no blood pressure monitor at hand, such signs as headache, nausea, vomiting, flies before the eyes, facial flushing, tinnitus can speak about high blood pressure. If you find any of these signs, you should call your doctor immediately or call an ambulance. If the pressure rises with a certain periodicity, but does not cause a reason for anxiety in the attending physician, you need to know how to reduce the pressure during pregnancy yourself. By changing the daily diet and lifestyle, you can completely get rid of hypertension.
Preeclampsia is a type of elevatedpressure at which traces of protein are also found in the urine. The disease occurs only in pregnant women. Preeclampsia can go away on its own after childbirth, but if not properly monitored and treated, it can turn into eclampsia, a condition that causes convulsions and even coma. Treatment is carried out only in the hospital under the supervision of a physician.
Salt and animal fats possessability to retain fluid in the body. At elevated pressure, it is necessary to limit salt intake or eliminate it altogether. The same applies to animal fats. The cause of hypertension is often the use of products such as chocolate, coffee, black tea. Lingonberry and cranberry juice will help reduce the pressure during pregnancy. Raw cabbage, carrots, beets, spinach, pumpkin - all these products, which lower the pressure during pregnancy, will solve other problems, for example, they will save you from beriberi or rapid weight gain. Tea is better to drink with lemon and sugar free. Ambulance with increased pressure is a cool shower and fresh air.
If a woman before pregnancy suffered fromhigh blood pressure, then surely she has in stock drugs that can quickly come to the rescue. But what was good before, in the new position is already unacceptable. Medicines for pressure can cause irreparable harm to the child. Reception of any means should be coordinated with the doctor. Since the risk to the baby is great, doctors without urgent need try not to prescribe drugs that reduce the pressure during pregnancy. If the situation is not critical, the doctor may recommend sedatives, such as valerian or motherwort, and diuretic drugs. If simple and safe sedatives do not help, the doctor may prescribe a ten-day course "Band" or "Dopegita." For the planned treatment of high pressure apply "Metaprolol" and "Nifedipine." Additionally appointed "Papaverin", "No-Shpa". With a very high pressure, a woman is asked to go to the hospital to conduct therapy under the supervision of specialists.
In the first trimester, pregnant women oftenface reduced pressure. It so happens that girls who are not yet aware of their position, begin to feel weakness, a faint state. Previously, before the appearance of rapid tests, many believed that low blood pressure was a sign of pregnancy. In part, it is. The fact is that it is low pressure that creates favorable conditions for the formation of new blood vessels. But the normal figure should not be more than 10% of normal, low blood pressure should not cause fainting, ringing in the ears, nausea, feeling of lack of air. For any of these symptoms, you should immediately contact your doctor. Because as a dangerous symptom is considered lower lower pressure during pregnancy. Lower (diastologic) pressure may alert kidney problems. In this case, the attending physician must prescribe an additional urine test. But no matter what the tonometer records, it is impossible to take medication on its own. It so happens that the analyzes of the future mother are normal, but her state of health is unimportant.
And if the whole pregnancy has low blood pressure, what should be done in this case to alleviate your condition? Take advantage of simple, but effective advice.
Low blood pressure during pregnancy can be slightly adjusted with the help of simple exercises.
Low blood pressure during pregnancyoften the result of lack of sleep or physical fatigue. Good sleep and fresh air walks will help you to feel unwell. Sometimes it is useful to eat a piece of salted fish or cracker. Salt retains water in the body, and the pressure from the liquid rises.
Even with well-being is necessaryregularly measure your blood pressure. This will allow time to detect and prevent the slightest deviation from the norm without harm to the mother and baby.