The birth of a child is a welcome happiness for most women. This happiness can be overshadowed by different points. Young mothers are afraid of the words "wrong position of the fetus", "muddy waters", "not listening to the heartbeat". But a total shock for the majority is the diagnosis of doctors, like an ectopic pregnancy.
Ectopic pregnancy and its symptoms. In the medical literature, the definition of an ectopic pregnancy is described: pregnancy, in which the fetus is outside the uterine cavity. In ninety-nine percent of ectopic pregnancy, the fetal egg is attached to the uterine tube, and further development of the fetus occurs exactly there.
Now it is already possible to say exactly - for some reasons some pregnancies can become ectopic. Doctors talk about a variety of changes in the body of a woman who can cause an ectopic pregnancy, but the main ones are inflammatory changes in the fallopian tubes. If there has never been inflammation, you can still be at risk if you are endocrine disrupters that affect the peristalsis of the tubes.
What threatens ectopic pregnancy?
Alas, a young woman who was diagnosed with this condition will lose a child with 100% probability. Pregnancy of the ectopic type quite often ends in fetal loss due to tubal abortion, when a fruit egg is pushed out of the fallopian tube because of peristalsis, or in connection with a rupture. Both can cause intra-abdominal bleeding, which in itself is extremely dangerous for a person's life.
But for what kind of symptoms do doctors define an ectopic pregnancy?
Unfortunately, in early terms, it is impossible to say exactly whether there is an ectopic pregnancy. There are ways to diagnose at 6-8 weeks of pregnancy. It's a pity to see the eyes of a woman who has been carrying on under her heart for 8 weeks and has already fallen in love with a small, lump developing in her, and who is told that he will not survive because of such a terrible diagnosis.
In order to explain how doctors define ectopic pregnancy, you need to know what kinds of ectopic pregnancies exist. In the medical literature there is such a classification: progressive and interrupted ectopic pregnancies.
Progressing ectopic pregnancy is accompanied by the same symptoms as the usual uterine pregnancy: menstruation delay, nausea and vomiting in the morning, increase and softening of the uterus, and much more. A young woman comes to the office to a gynecologist, gets the joyful news that she is pregnant, and does not suspect that this pregnancy will bring her many unpleasant sensations and emotions. After all, as it was said earlier, at the initial stage this type of ectopic pregnancy can not be diagnosed.
Interrupted ectopic pregnancy can be diagnosed at 6-8 weeks, because it is at this time that the uterine tube breaks, accompanied by abdominal pain, dizziness, fainting, lowering of blood pressure, and sometimes spotting from the genital tract. Predict in advance this kind of ectopic pregnancy is also impossible, you can diagnose only the fact of the changes that have occurred, and this is the worst thing.
Is there an ectopic pregnancy treatment?
The only thing that can comfort a mother who has lost a child is the news that the treatment exists. At the first suspicions on ectopic pregnancy the hospitalization with the subsequent operation is provided. Doctors will try to reduce the chances of internal bleeding in time and correct the rupture of the tube, which is likely to help a woman get pregnant in the future. After the operation, a restorative treatment is prescribed, which can simultaneously become a prophylaxis against the recurrence of an ectopic pregnancy. Doctors now guarantee only five percent of women who underwent restorative treatment, that they will not have a situation with ectopic pregnancy. The remaining 95% will have to believe in the best and hope for a normal, royal, pregnancy course.