ANEMIA IN THE PREGNANCY

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	ANEMIA IN THE PREGNANCY
	*ANEMIA IN THE PREGNANCY*

ANEMIA IN THE PREGNANCY

Anemia in the pregnancy

Low level of hemoglobina during the pregnancy.

The hemoglobina transports oxygen to weaves of all the body within red or hematíes globules, reason why it is essential for a good breathing (oxigenación) of weaves.

Causes

Low iron ingestion in the diet.

Acido deficiency of fólico.

Loss of blood by hemorrhage by hemorroides or gastrointestinal.

The pregnancy aggravates or triggers most of these general causes of anemia:

It alters the digestive processes.

It increases the amount of circulating blood in the organism (of about five liters in the normal adult to seven in the pregnant woman, with which the red globules are diluted in her).

The fetus consumes acido part of fólico and the iron of the mother.

Signs and symptoms

Some, as you feel nauseous them, difficult to distinguish of the effects of the pregnancy, are:

Fatigue and weakness.

Pallor.

Lack of air sometimes.

Dolores of head.

You feel nauseous.

Palpitaciones.

Factors of risk

Deficient, devoid feeding of vitamins and minerals.

Tobacco, that reduces the absorption of important nutrients.

Excess of alcohol consumption that takes to the undernourishment.

To take anticonvulsive medication.

Prevention

To eat rich iron foods, like dry liver, calf, lentils, cereals, eggs and fruits.

To eat rich foods in acido fólico, like beans, flour, mantequilla of peanut, champiñones, brócoli or asparagus.

To eat rich vitamin foods C, like the citruses and vegetables; vitamin C causes that the iron absorption is more efficient.

To take vitaminic and mineral supplements, specially acid fólico (since this it is necessary for the mother) to form necessary red globules, and for the fetus, since its deficiency is related to déficits in the development of its nervous system.

Given the facility of their prevention by means of the indicated supplements, these are recommended habitually in all the protocols of handling of the pregnant women.

Diagnosis and treatment

The diagnosis is made by means of analytical sanguineous, either a routine one, or because the appearance of the described symptoms or insists to the doctor to discard it.

GENERAL MEASURES

Medication

Vitaminic supplements and of iron.

Activity

Rest if the anemia is serious.

Diet

Rich feeding in iron and fólico acid (to see prevention).

Complications

Deformities in the nervous system of the fetus.

Premature childbirth.

Excessive loss of blood during the childbirth.

Low weight of the fetus when being born.

Increase of infections in new born.

Prognosis

Curable with nutritional treatment or medication, or by oral route or intramuscular injection.

More information

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