Scientific and moderate
life style, together with practicing exercise regularly, can help women limit unexpected symptoms of
pregnancy.
Pregnant women should be careful with some
phenomena during pregnancy.
Cramp
The fact that muscle is contracted painfully
is called cramp. This phenomenon
happens popularly from the 5th month of pregnancy, usually at night.
The reason of contractions at women’s legs is lack of calcium and increase of
weight more and more, which creates pressure on their legs.
Can
you prevent cramp in pregnancy?
Cramp is thought to be the phenomenon that
pregnant women lack potassium (in banana), calcium (in milk products), salt in daily
diet, or phosphorus (in meat). Therefore, to limit the risk of cramp in
pregnancy, women should supplement these above nutrients via daily diet. You
can also refer to doctor’s instructions to add medicine containing these
nutrients.
What
should you do to deal with cramp during pregnancy?
The first advice for pregnant women is
practicing exercise regularly and frequently to reduce the risk of cramp. In
addition, when having cramp, you need to stretch legs and have your husband
massage. Besides, you should practice gently some exercises for legs every
night by using a long towel to put under foot, sit straight up, then stretch
legs. This movement can decrease cramp at night.
When do
you need to visit doctor?
In case that you have cramp frequently and feel
very painful, call doctor. When symptoms of contraction occur much, that is
sign of blood clot.
Cramp
happens popularly from the 5th month of pregnancy, usually at night.
Cystitis
Cystitis makes you want to urinate more
frequently and creates feeling of inhibition in lower abdomen. This disease is
common during pregnancy by the pressure of baby on bladder and creates feeling
of urination.
How
to deal with this disease?
Urinate immediately when you want.
Wear cotton underwear, avoid tight clothes,
and hygiene your private part regularly.
Drink much water, at least 2 liters a day.
Lemon juice, orange juice, or chrysanthemum tea are good for pregnant woman.
Remove foods high in acid and sweet.
Eat much garlic, vegetable and rice.
How
to hygiene your private part?
To prevent and decrease the phenomenon of
cystitis, pregnant women should hygiene their private parts clearly by using
betel leaves or green tea.
Is
cystitis dangerous?
If you have urinary retention in a few
days, visiting doctor is necessary. In the case that you suffer a backache,
together with retention, fever, headache, vomiting, or urine containing blood,
you must go and see doctor immediately because that can be signs of kidney
infection.
Diabetes
According to statistics of researcher,
there are 5% of pregnant women having diabetes in pregnancy. Pregnant diabetes
usually does not have clear manifestation; it is the reason why you are tested
diabetes in each time of antenatal care. If result of urine test has any
problem, you will be assigned to make blood test in order to have more obvious
result.
Who
is easy to suffer pregnant diabetes?
Diet containing too much sugar during
pregnancy causes pregnant diabetes. Moreover, if you are in overweight, consuming
foods high in sugar or over 35 years old, you will have higher risk of
diabetes.
The
best way to control diabetes is adjusting diet.
Can
diabetes be treated?
Injecting insulin or taking diabetes
medicine is usually not necessary for pregnant diabetes, so you still need to
be watched carefully, usually by medical consultant. As usual, you also need to
adjust daily diet to limit pregnant diabetes.
What
should women do for pregnant diabetes?
The best way to control diabetes is
adjusting diet. Pregnant women need to limit maximum foods containing sugar.
Some research showed that foods high in vitamin B6 can reduce pregnant
diabetes. Vitamin B6 is found most in fish, meat, yolk egg, butter, cereal and
green leafy vegetables.
Is
diabetes dangerous?
The answer is “Yes” in case of severe
condition. If not treated, diabetes can create serious problems for both
mothers and babies such as injured kidney, lethargy. Therefore, diabetes must
be controlled closely during pregnancy.
Diarrhoea
Changes in digestive system can make
pregnant women sensitize with some foods and cause diarrhea. In that case, the
first thing you should do is supplement liquids for your body. If diarrhea
comes with stomachache and takes place a few days, you only need to drink much
water and eat more supplemental foods.
Is
diarrhea dangerous?
Your babies will not be affected much if
you cannot eat much within 1 – 2 days, but the important thing is you must not
lack water. If the phenomenon lasts in long time and becomes more and more
serious, please consult your doctor.
Notes
Sometimes, diarrhea at the end of pregnancy
is sign that you are about to take a delivery, so you need to keep track of
carefully.
Decrease
of blood cells bringing oxygen to babies can be the reason of faintness and
dizziness.
Faintness/dizziness
Decrease of blood cells bringing oxygen to
babies can be the reason of
faintness and dizziness taking place more frequently. Moreover, level of blood sugar and low blood pressure can make you
be dizzy.
How
to handle these phenomena?
Add frequently foods containing high
protein such as yogurt and cheese which can assist to prevent quickly the decrease
of sugar in blood.
Supplement liquids into body. Drink a glass
of water if you feel signs of dizziness and faintness.
Gradually sit down or lie down, hold legs
higher in order that blood can come back brain.
Avoid lying on back especially at the last
months of pregnancy. That position can easily make pressure on main blood
vessels and worsen the condition of disease.
Is
this disease dangerous?
Faintness and dizziness are sometimes due
to anemia; therefore, let consult your doctor to be supplemented iron. If you
are faint to unconsciousness and this occurs frequently, call doctor because
those can be signs of high blood pressure.
