Which is the danger of a high arterial tension? In this case all the sanguine vessels get narrowed, including the blood vessels of the uterus, which “feeds” the baby with oxygen and nutritive substances. As result of the insufficient provision of the baby with these products, it can take place the deceleration of the baby’s development.
The slowing-down of the uterus alimentation with blood increases the risk of the displacement of the placenta (the organ which makes the connection between mother and baby), which in grave cases may provoke dangerous abundant bleeding. The most obvious symptom of the placenta’s displacement is the vaginal hemorrhage after the twentieth week of pregnancy. In this case you should go immediately to a doctor. Pregnancy induced hypertension may be also one of the symptoms of pre-eclampsia, which involves many problems.
Pre-eclampsia is the condition of the organism that has the following characteristics: the increase of the arterial tension (hypertension), the presence of a high quantity of proteins in urine (more than 3grams in 24 hours), edemas, the fast increase of the corporal weight (more than 2 kilograms per week). Pre-eclampsia may go with visual disorders, headaches, somnolence, pains in the epigastric region, nausea, errutctation, decrease of the baby’s movements, decrease of the urine’s volume. Pre-eclampsia is often met after the thirtieth week of pregnancy.
Which is the treatment method in the case when pregnancy induced hypertension? The treatment is always individual; it depends a lot on the health of the women and on the pregnancy’s term. If the evolution of the malady is slow and easy, than the doctor will recommend you a diet and the bed regime, until your arterial tension will get normal or until the moment of the birth.
It may be possible that the doctor will prescribe you a medicament treatment. But even in the easy cases it is necessary to frequently go to the doctor (at least two times a week). If the measures effectuated are not efficient and the condition of the pregnant is getting worse or she suffers of chronic hypertension, than she will be interned into the hospital until she gives birth to her child.
In this way there can be avoided the grave complications. At the hospital, the arterial tension of the mother will be measured 2 or 3 times per day, and the determination of the corporal weight and of the presence of proteins in the urine will be done daily. As well, it will be daily controlled the condition of the baby by determining the movements of the child.
In some cases, when the arterial tension increases too much, the doctors consider that it is inevitable the stimulation of a premature birth, in order to avoid the appearance of grave problems of the mother’s health, such as: infarction, affection of the liver, of the kidneys and the edema of the lungs.
If the patient suffers by chronic arterial tension or has symptoms, like: visual disorders, epigastric pains or diastolic tension higher than 100, than the doctors recommend a treatment with intravenous magnesium sulfate. It is evident that the premature birth is not desired, but sometimes this is the only chance, and in this case the babies who are born before the term are feeling better in the incubator than in their mother’s womb.