Medical Health Care Advices

Prevention

The most important thing is prevention, so that all pregnant women be monitored with a midwife from the beginning of her pregnancy, the examinations that you ask your doctor and be aware of warning signs and symptoms (headache, excessive weight, vision, flashing lights and upper abdominal pain). If a patient has risk factors is important that your doctor tells you drugs are useful in preventing this disease, such as calcium, fish oil and others. It is also important a balanced diet.

Treatment

It is important that the diagnosis is made by a physician and assessed by laboratory tests. The behavior depends on the type of preeclampsia:

If preeclampsia is mild treatment at home is most important thing is rest and marked diet and antihypertensive.

On the other hand if preeclampsia is severe, the patient should be hospitalized and was hypertensive and drugs should indicate that prevent it, seizures (eclampsia). Must be serial laboratory studies to evaluate the severity of the disease and to treat complications time or if possible prevent them.

Of course, we must evaluate the fetus through ultrasonography and fetal well tests.

If the fetus is mature you have to terminate the pregnancy, either normal or cesarean delivery.

If you are not there to help mature their lungs mature through medicines and then performing the abortion.

The most important thing is prevention: Make adequate prenatal care, indicate if there are medications to prevent risk factors, treat it if it already exists to prevent and complicate progress and watch for warning signs and symptoms:

High blood pressure.

Excessive weight gain in a short time.

Swelling.

Headache.

Light Vision.

Upper abdominal pain.

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