In anticipation of the child, the future mother tries to protect herself from a sick tooth, a common cold and from any illnesses. even such a common disease as a runny nose can cause serious complications in pregnancy and develop into sinusitis, which will harm the newborn baby and mother.
Sinusitis during pregnancy
Because of poorly cured colds, there is inflammation of the maxillary sinuses of the nose, because of them outflow from the sinus is blocked and not allowed to be produced naturally by cleaning the mucous membrane of the sinus. In this case, there is a protective reaction of the body, in that the amount of mucus produced increases, which worsens the situation.
Bacteria living on the mucous membrane, enter a favorable environment and multiply intensively, which leads to the formation of pus in the sinuses. Rarely, but the cause of the disease can be an infection that has fallen due to untreated roots of teeth in the upper jaw.
Genyantritis during pregnancy is dangerous because this inflammatory process passes near the eyes and brain. And if you do not treat the inflammatory process, then pus will cause multiple infections, inflammation of the meninges and easily fall into the neighboring departments.
Not all future mothers during pregnancy notice the manifestations of this disease, but they note general weakness, lack of appetite, fever, nasal congestion, headaches.
Usual patient for diagnosis of sinusitis is carried out by radiological examination of the sinuses of the nose, but in pregnancy this method of diagnosis is prohibited. In pregnancy, sinusitis can be detected with ultrasound examination of the sinuses of the nose, but this method is approximate.
The correct means of diagnosis will be a puncture of the maxillary sinus, it is also useful during treatment, but because it is a great stress for a pregnant woman, they try to refuse it. This procedure is performed with local anesthesia, but it is resorted to in extreme cases.
Treating sinusitis allows pharmacological agents, but since pregnancy is undesirable to use antibiotics, the drugs are injected into the nasal sinuses. The patient is prescribed vasoconstrictor, which will have an effect if there is a minimal pus flow.
The presence of an inflammatory process in the body of a mother can lead to sad consequences for the development of the fetus. But if only in pregnancy there are the slightest signs of sinusitis, you need to immediately seek medical help.