Maternity Secret

Dangerous signal 7 - Nameless itching

Throughout the pregnancy, pregnant women may be many symptoms, itching is one of them. Itching pregnancy often started from the abdomen, across the whole body, especially in the lower abdomen, palms, especially foot-plam. Pregnant women there was no skin rash, skin lesions, only scratch. In severe cases, can be seen sclera, skin yellow dye, but no diarrhea, loss of appetite and other gastrointestinal symptoms.

This is a unique to pregnancy itching and characterized by jaundice complications, particularly harm to the fetus. Fetus died in utero often suddenly, especially in the event of contraction, the medically diagnosed as “intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy.”

The emergence of the disease may be due to pregnancy after the body of pregnant women have a lot of estrogen, affecting the function of liver cells, causing the body bile excretion obstacles. Cholestasis in the liver cells around the skin, blood vessels around the placenta. Cholestasis as a result of the subcutaneous tissue to stimulate nerve endings, skin itching caused by the body; placental villi blood vessels around Cholestasis, can cause pregnant women and fetal blood circulation between the obstacles, intrauterine fetal hypoxia in a state prone to slow fetal growth and development that in case of “trouble” to make fetal death.

Therefore, pregnant women once itching symptoms, they should inform the doctor and tests to check liver function and jaundice index. Timely detection of abnormal early. If the gestational age of patients is still small, should be strengthened fetal monitoring (including the number of movements of cord blood flow measurements, etc.); such as the nearly full-term, it is necessary to hospital for observation because of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy may endanger the life of the fetus, if necessary when the need for cesarean section in advance of termination of pregnancy, so that the fetus from the adverse intrauterine environment.