Itchiness among pregnant women
Many pregnant women have itchiness during gestation. This trouble often disappears few weeks after childbirth. However, some can recur in later pregnancy.
Itch ness during pregnancy can be the reason of ., stagnant gall, lumpy dermatitis. In addition, the skin is more sensitive with unsecured hygiene or contact with itchy, strange substances.
Treatment is often focused on reducing the symptoms. Scratching is an immediate reaction to relieve itch temporarily. Bathe in pure water every day is the most active way. Acupuncture can partly reduce itch but cannot recover completely.
Apply fat such as almond oil can effect to some extent. Soap of the type acid pH=4.5 can be useful if there's no skin injuries. You can apply light therapy to inhibit the production of histamine and hence cope with itchiness.
For medicines, doctors can prescribe the medicine to inhibit H1, H2 (polaramine, atarax) to reduce the synthesis of histamine. Or the medicine to reduce the stagnancy of pregnant cholesterase, tranquilizer.These medicines have to be prescribed by doctors.
Gestational lupus erythematosus
This is the skin disease due to the patient's auto-immunization during pregnancy. Conceiving is the transplantation of the foetus organization into mother's body, with the appearance of antigen from the bottom membrane of the placenta disc. The antigen remains in the skin and then releases chemical substances into the skin causing rash in the shape of water bladder. Sometimes the rash spreads to the mouth's mucous membrane, vagina and other skin areas. The disease can possibly recur in later pregnancy.
Treat by corticoid and anti-histamine.
Popular dermatitis
The rate of pregnant women contracting this disease is 0.5 - 2%. At first, lumpy red areas appear (diameter about 3 - 5 mm) on the stomach, vulva bone, rib and then disappear after birth, not spread to face.
Treatment by abater, drinking anti-histamine and corticoid.
Gestational gall stagnancy
The main symptom is itchiness due to liver stagnancy; the disease gets serious gradually until birth day and quickly recovers in post birth period. In around 70% of the cases the disease occurs when the foetus is 28 - 32 weeks old. The pregnant women are itchy, sleepless and the itch begins to spread from four limbs to the whole body. The skin is injured because of scratching; the skin and mucous membrane is rather yellow. The patient is tired and vomits.
Once having those symptoms, pregnant women should go for medical examination and treat according to doctor's advice.
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