Causes and symptoms of anembrion

A cherished positive test in the hands, joy and happiness, unfortunately, often end in bitter tears on ultrasound.


A woman hears a diagnosis of embryos and can not understand how this is possible, because there were all signs of pregnancy, confirmation of the district gynecologist, and the tests do not lie. Shokovosostoyanie and grief do not allow to adequately assess the situation and understand it.

Similar, as it is not terribly aware, can happen to each of us, so we will try to explain the causes of anembryonia, how it can be prevented and detected on time.

What is this and why is happening?

Anembrionia is a frozen, undeveloped pregnancy. The vice of development is due to the fact that a fetal egg, although it is entrenched to the uterus, nevertheless does not contain an embryo. It happens that the embryo develops, but ceased to develop.

Statistics show that this happens to 15% of women. For those who have ever survived a dead pregnancy, they have all the chances to continue to endure and give birth to a healthy baby. But the mothers of small crumbs are uninsured, he embryos into a subsequent pregnancy.

Signs of anembryonia

The most common pregnancy occurs at the beginning of the first trimester, for up to six weeks, sometimes a little later. After fertilization of the egg with sperm, the cell division begins. Some of them become embryos, the rest form fetal membranes and placenta. So, sometimes those cells from which the embryo should have been formed stop dividing, while others continue to divide as they should. As a result, the egg continues to grow in size, but in fact, it is empty.

This is the main trick of frozen pregnancy-the woman does not even suspect what is happening inside. Hormones of pregnancy continue to be developed, thereby deceiving the organism.

It happens that the body reacts to anembironia spontaneous miscarriage. Of course, then the woman is most likely to feel pain and will find a blotchy discharge (after which it is necessary immediately to seek medical help). But in most cases, a woman completely feels all the pre-pregnancy in the form of toxicosis, engorgement of the mammary glands, enlargement of the uterus, absence of menstruation and so on.

The most reliable acknowledgment of embryonemia (not counting ultrasound) will be a decrease in the level of hCG. If you are worried, then this analysis can be taken in any laboratory every three days. In the rest, the frozen pregnancy itself does not manifest itself.

Causes of anembryonia

Thanks to new technologies, research methods, doctors managed to identify some of the most probable cause embrionia.

One can single out several external factors of influence.

An acute viral infection, which a woman could get sick at the time of the embryo's embryo, can cause a frozen pregnancy. The virus can directly hit the embryo itself, or significantly worsen the state of the futuremuma, cause a rise in temperature, thereby having a damaging effect on the development of the embryo.

Pyelonephritis pneumonia (any other acute bacterial infection), involves the use of antibiotics as a treatment, which in turn can negatively affect the development of the embryo.

Toxic substances cause disruption of the whole organism of the mother and exert a tremendous load on all internal organs, the uterus and the embryo that has just begun its development.

Is it worth it to lyraskazyvat about the destructive effect of radiation on a person? What can one say about this process, as the birth of life.

Harmful habits such as smoking, alcohol dependence or addiction significantly increase the risk of anembrionia.

Genetically abnormalities are the most common cause of a stiffened pregnancy.

Changes in the parental sex cells can also lead to fetal death at the safest stages of development. For example, if a viable, healthy sperm cell is seen with a pathological egg or vice versa. An incorrect set of chromosomes entails a disastrous effect on the embryo. The same radiation can cause genetic changes and cause rejection by the mother of the fetus.

Hormonal infections in the body of a woman can also lead to anembrion. That is why the alignment of the hormonal background is the foundation of the foundations in the centers of restoring the reproductive function of the family.

Diagnosis of frozen pregnancy and subsequent actions

Anembrion is diagnosed exclusively by ultrasound. And never conclusions are not made only a single result of ultrasound. The main task of both mothers and doctors is to keep the pregnancy, it is not uncommon for an unskilled doctor or an instrument with insufficient sensitivity to produce an albuter. Any competent doctor will not make hasty conclusions and will invite you to undergo a second examination in a few days or a week. Most likely, it will be extremely difficult time in the moral plan, but it is necessary to make sure that there is really no embryo in the fetal egg or to get a good start on the good news.

Nevertheless, there are normals that say that when the size of the fetal egg is more than 20 mm, not the videnembrion, in this case the highest probability of anembrionia.

Additionally, the level of chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is analyzed. If the indicators are low, then with the help of them it will be possible to calculate at what time the death of the embryo occurred.

After the diagnosis is confirmed, you will be offered two options. Most likely, this will be a scraping of the uterus (cleansing), removal of the fetal egg. And the second option is a medical abortion, if it is a question of the shortest period (in Russia, only cleaning is possible so far).

On this your life does not end, moreover, there are all chances for a quick conception and a healthy pregnancy with happy birth. But do not rush and plan right after anembrion.

It should be given time for the organism to recover. With the help of a number of drugs and vitamin complexes, which will appoint a doctor, the uterine mucosa will recover. Usually it is recommended to be protected for about half a year after a dead pregnancy.

It is practically impossible to precisely determine the cause of the embrion. Doctors can only guess why this happened, looking back at external factors. Alas, but the results of histological studies here also will not help, because for a while the scraping of cell division has already stopped.

More detailed diagnosis of treatment is prescribed only in repeated cases of miscarriage.

We hope that you will not be faced with such a diagnosis, but if this happens, you must remember that the next attempt will be successful, and you will necessarily become the best mom.

Frozen pregnancy often occurs because of fetal pathologies and the body thereby rejects the embryo at the very beginning of development, thereby giving you the opportunity to bear and give birth to a healthy and strong baby, which we wish you.