To avoid the risk of fetal defects, pregnant
women should take notice of those following factors.
1. High fever in early pregnancy
To pregnant women who have high fevers in
the early pregnancy, their newborns will have no sign of defects but, the
newborns still need long-term observation. When pregnant women have high
fevers, fetal brain cells will be affected; fetuses will have a decrease of
nervous cell number, which leads to intellectual disability.
Note: It’s not that every pregnant woman
who has high fevers have abnormal children; it depends on the body of the
pregnant and other undiscovered factors.
Having
fevers, flu in pregnancy is considered to be one of the reasons causing fetal
defects.
2. Contacting with cats
There’re few people knowing that the
bacteria parasitizing in cats can badly affect fetal development.
In England, there’re 40% of pregnant women
who have infectious diseases from cats and 500 children who died for contacting
with the bacteria in cats every year.
3. Putting on heavy makeup
According to a research in England, women
who put on heavy makeup daily have 1,25 times the chance of having
teratogenicity in comparison to women who didn’t.
The reason is that in cosmetics, there’re
plenty of harmful substances, such as lead (Pb), mercury (Hg) and asen (as)
which get into the body through the mucosa and skin, then enter to fetal bodies
and cause bad effects on fetal normal developments.
Besides, some elements in cosmetics, when
contacting to the sun, will turn to aromatic amines – a toxic product that are
able to cause fetal defects.
Women
who put on heavy makeup daily have 1,25 times the chance of having
teratogenicity in comparison to women who didn’t.
4. Stress
The human temper is under control of
central nervous system and excretory systems. One of the excretory systems that
closely relate to the changes of human temper is adrenal. When pregnant women
get stressed, the hormones from adrenal can interfere the merging role of fetal
embryonic tissues. If the stress occurs in the 3 first months of pregnancy, it
will cause fetal defects which could be cleft lip or cleft palate.
5. Drinking lots of alcohol
Women who drink lots of alcohol will have
the alcohol entered the placenta and get in to the on-developing embryo, which
causes bad effects on fetal health.
Drinking
2-4 glasses of alcohol a day can cause fetal deformity such as underdeveloped
brain, ears and nose, thick, wide upper lip, etc.
During pregnancy, if pregnant women have
more than 2 glasses of wine, it’ll badly affect fetal health. Drinking 2-4
glasses of alcohol a day can cause fetal deformity such as underdeveloped
brain, ears and nose, thick, wide upper lip, etc.
6. Eating poisoned foods
Specialists claim that if pregnant women
eat contaminate foods (moldy foods), foods that have toxic products, the
bacteria can get through the placenta, harm fetuses and transform chromosome
cells.
7. Imbalanced diet
One of the important factors affecting
fetal health is the diet.
In pregnancy, some women wanted to save
shape so they applied diets. They didn’t know that their diets can lead to severe
fetal malformation.
Some
fetuses who don’t receive more nutrients can have malnutrition and risks of
fetal defects.
8. Late delivery
Late delivery also raises the risk of fetal
defects. If pregnant women are over 35 years old and their husbands are over
50, there’re fewer chances that fetuses will normally develop.
Especially, pregnant women who work in
harsh environment, have to contact with chemicals, pesticides, dyes… can also
affect fetal health.
9. Taking medicines arbitrarily
Pregnant women who arbitrarily use
antibiotics, anti-thyroid drugs and anti-cancer drugs can make their fetuses
have defects in nervous systems, urinary tracts and limbs. Using acne
medication can lead to the same results.
According to FDA, pregnant women shouldn’t
use drugs that belong with X group because of the high risk of fetal
deformation. In the drug group, there’s Thalilomide which is used for sedative
treatments and antiemetic so that people often overuse it, especially to treat
nausea.
The popular phenomenon of newborns is that
they don’t have limps that normally develop; they have organ defects and
distorted faces. In 1960, Thalilomide was dispelled from the market. In 2005,
England, people built a statue of fetuses who had defects because their moms
had used Thalilomide to warn people not to use the drug. A apart from
Thalilomide, there’re the pill, reproductive medicines, acne medications,
anticancer drugs and epilepsy cures.
In case of having chicken spot, rubella in
pregnancy, it’s really dangerous because of its extreme risk of fetal defects.
10. What’re
the preventions?
To not suffer from the pitiful situation,
future mothers should take notice of the following information.
3 months before the conception, you should
drink one tablet of folic acid a day. That will prevent fetuses from risks of
severe birth defects, such as open neural tube defect, hydrocepharus…
Women who have cardiac disease, blood
pressure problems, diabetes and thyroid diseases should have their diseases
cured before pregnancy.
To prevent rubella and chicken spot during
pregnancy, you’d better have vaccinations before getting married and have other
vaccination at least 3 months before pregnancy.
Having healthy babies is every mother’s wish.
Pregnant
women should have recurring gestational test to have prenatal diagnosis.
During pregnancy, pregnant women should ask
doctors for suitable diets.
Pregnant women should have recurring
gestational test to have prenatal diagnosis. With screening tests, doctors can
diagnose fetal defects and have timely treatments.
The most ideal time to have fetal defect
diagnosed is between 12th-13th weeks. Fetuses that are
more than 28 weeks old will face with more difficulties in treating. Pregnant
women should take this in notice and have ultrasound tests soon.
11. Eating
·
Avoid eating fishes that have high level of
mercury, such as shark, swordfish, mackerel, marlin…
·
Eat the small amount of fishes that have low
level of mercury, such as salmon, tuna, Pollock fish, catfish…
·
Do not eat vegetables that start to grow bud
because they often contain lots of toxic products; milk, butter products,
unpasteurized cheeses, raw fish, meat, egg; poisoned foods, foods with strange
smells; alcohol; foods that have lots of caffeine, cocaine…
·
Wash hands, processing tools, food containers. Take
general examinations before pregnancy to find out and have timely treatments for
infectious diseases or sexual transmitted ones.
Pregnant
women shouldn’t shark meat because of its high level of mercury.
Note: Some of the toxic source can remain
in the body in a considerable long period of time, even when you aren’t
pregnant. Hence, this is a synoptic note for human health, especially for
pregnant women and women who are planning to be.
