What are cold at the mother and fetus harm?

Text/Zheng Yuanyuan Qi Wang

Generally cold, if symptoms are less quickly without watery discharge, sneezing, little impact on the fetus, is nothing but a few days \' rest. But if suffering from influenza, and heavier, the significant impact on fetus. Currently known to be associated with human influenza virus has more than 300 species, of which 13 species of virus in the infected mother can affect fetal growth, low energy, mental retardation and various malformations occurred. Early in the pregnancy (before 12 weeks \' gestation) is the organ of embryonic period, if infected, cold symptoms, it is timely to the hospital, check the virus series such as TORCH, understand there is no obvious risk virus infection. But if you are suffering from a bad cold or cold complicated with pneumonia, appear symptoms of high fever, cough, breathing difficulty, can lead to fetal hypoxia, spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, fetal intrauterine growth retardation, prematurity, and so on. And improper drug use may further increase the risk of the fetus. When these symptoms occur when timely treatment, timely treatment, especially fever.

Mother to a faster metabolic rate, body temperature higher than that of most people, people is slightly higher than normal body temperature 0.5 ℃, when the mother\'s temperature rose to over 37.5 ℃, you should consider is fever; if the body temperature of over 38.5 ° c, special attention must be paid. Fever at mother, increases the metabolic rate, and also merge a lot of discomfort symptoms, such as headache, loss of appetite, body fatigue, pa

lpitation, or even dehydration, but will also increase the burden of heart and lung function in pregnant women. For the baby, many animal experiments proved that early in the pregnancy, if the maternal temperature than normal 1.5 c, can cause fetal brain development disorders. Early in the pregnancy, if pregnant women in about 6 weeks of embryonic development in the body, that is, God-administered growth stage, severe hyperthermia (2 c ~3 ° c every day, for 1 hour) can cause microcephaly, mental disorder, and so on. Also reported that, in one-third during the period before the pregnancy, maternal fever more than 38.9 ° c for 1 day or longer, can increase the rate of fetal malformations.

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Source: 2007 issue of the parents must read