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Is pyelonephritis dangerous during pregnancy, how does pyelonephritis affect pregnancy?
Pregnancy with pyelonephritis can occur with complications in the form of recurrent back pain, difficulty urinating, and fever. If a woman suffers from chronic kidney disease, she needs to be especially attentive to her health.
Pregnancy and pyelonephritis
Pyelonephritis is an inflammatory process in the renal pelvis. Its occurrence is provoked by an infection that has entered the body.
Pyelonephritis during pregnancy is characterized by changes in the renal pelvis
Allocate acute and chronic forms of the disease. Acute pyelonephritis develops suddenly, accompanied by high fever, headache, lower back and back pain, nausea. If such symptoms occur, you need to call an ambulance, perhaps the health workers will decide on hospitalization of the pregnant woman.
Chronic pyelonephritis in most cases is a consequence of unfairly treated acute pyelonephritis.
The disease takes on a sluggish form, exacerbating with a decrease in immunity, for example, with a cold
It happens that symptoms occur in a pregnant woman who has never had kidney problems before. In this case, we can talk about gestational pyelonephritis. It develops mainly in the second and third trimester of pregnancy, when the uterus begins to actively grow and squeezes the internal organs. It constricts the ureters, disrupting the normal flow of urine. Also, pregnant women are more susceptible to various infections. Even ordinary cystitis can lead to the development of pyelonephritis.
Is pyelonephritis dangerous during pregnancy? If you do not start the disease, take medications in a timely manner and regularly take urine tests, there will be no serious consequences. But if you let the disease take its course, the threat of miscarriage increases, the risk of premature birth.
In addition to how pyelonephritis affects pregnancy, its effect directly on the fetus is also important.
The risk of hypoxia increases for the child, which means that he will not receive enough oxygen and nutrients.
Intrauterine infection of the fetus is also possible. It is difficult to predict how this will turn out for the child after childbirth. The development of both a relatively harmless conjunctivitis and pneumonia is possible.
Therefore, it is so important to take a responsible attitude to the treatment of pyelonephritis. The doctor may prescribe antibiotics that are allowed during pregnancy, herbal preparations that stimulate kidney function, and pain relievers.