Caring for the high blood pressure in pregnancy vary according to the case and scratchs that hypertension can lead to gestation. Some measures include:
- Reduce the pace of daily activities;
- Move away from work if it is too stressful;
- Hospitalization for resting and monitoring of blood pressure;
- Use of antihypertensive drugs in the most complicated cases;
- Control the feeding by decreasing the intake of salt and fats;
- Practice light physical activities, low impact, such as water aerobics.
THE arterial hypertension Nagravidez occurs when the pressure presents values equal or superior to 140/90 mmHg ("14 by 9"), and can be classified in 4 ways:
- Pre-eclampsia (pregnancy-specific hypertension): When the high blood pressure appears after 20 weeks of gestation and the pregnant woman has loss of proteins by the urine;
- Chronic hypertension: When it is identified before pregnancy or before the 20th week of gestation;
- Pre-eclampsia with chronic hypertension: The pregnant woman was already hypertensive and began to lose protein through the urine after the 20th week of pregnancy;
- Gestational hypertension: When high blood pressure manifests itself in any period of pregnancy, but without the aggravating factors of pre-eclampsia.
Learn more at: What is pre-eclampsia and what are the symptoms?
High blood pressure during pregnancy can lead to serious complications for gestation, interfering with fetal growth and the functioning of the woman's kidneys.
If hypertension is not detected and treated properly, it can progress to eclampsia convulsion in the pregnant woman, which may cause death mother and baby.
Therefore, pregnant hypertensives should be closely monitored by the obstetrician, with an even stricter prenatal.
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