Gastric disturbances at pregnancy

Heartburn at pregnancy

More than a half of future mothers complain of an unpleasant burning sensation behind a breast and overpopulation of a stomach. These symptoms are caused by heartburn at the pregnancy provoked by throwing of an acid gastric juice in a gullet. The return current of gastric contents is explained by features of physiology of future mothers.

Heartburn at pregnancy is provoked by weakening of a tone of the lower esophageal sphincter. It occurs under the influence of hormone of progesterone whose level considerably increases in the woman's organism during incubation of the child.

As a result of it the sphincter leaky closes a gullet cavity, and a part of contents of a stomach rises up, causing to future woman in labor discomfort.

One more provocative factor of heartburn at pregnancy – the increased intra belly pressure caused by the large sizes of a fruit. For this reason the bulk of women suffer from heartburn of the III trimester of pregnancy in time.

The accessory factors provoking heartburn at pregnancy

Pregnancy – the period of check of the general state of health of the woman. Now the organism spends all the resources for incubation of the child. In this regard in time pregnancies quite often escalate all chronic diseases. Including diseases of a GIT, whose main symptom, as we know, - heartburn.

Carry to the factors provoking heartburn at pregnancy also:

• diet errors (abuse of sweet, fat, hot or acid dishes),
• trunk inclinations after meal,
• horizontal position on the left side,
• reception of some medicines or vitamin drugs.

Treatment of heartburn at pregnancy

Heartburn at pregnancy – a temporary phenomenon. It causes considerable discomfort to future mother and at the same time is not dangerous to the child at all. Unless heartburn at pregnancy acts as one of symptoms is hidden the current disease of a liver or other pathology of a GIT.

Therefore at frequent attacks of heartburn all pregnant women are recommended to consult at the gastroenterologist. Carrying out an ezofagogastroduodenoskopiya can be necessary for specification of the diagnosis.

For fight against heartburn at pregnancy it is recommended:

• not to transfer,
• it is fractional to eat,
• it is active to eat alkaline products (cottage cheese, eggs, low-fat meat, vegetable and creamy oils, sour cream, boiled vegetables, the baked fruit),
• to carry out prevention of locks as in time the complicated bowel emptying intra belly pressure increases,
• to exclude from the diet hot drinks, crude cabbage, onions and other food stuffs with rough cellulose,
• to eat food at least in 3 hours prior to a dream,
• to sleep with the raised headboard,

In drug treatment of heartburn at pregnancy antiacid drugs are used: Маалокс, Rennie, Fofsfalyugel, etc.

Systematic reception of baking soda from heartburn at pregnancy provokes formation of hypostases and causes only short-term simplification of a state.

Stomach aches at pregnancy

More serious gastric disturbance at pregnancy - a gastralgia or a stomach ache. The discomfort is felt, as a rule, in the fourth left intercostal space. Otherwise calls it still epigastriß area.

The stomach ache at pregnancy is caused by pathologies of the body, for example, various forms of gastritis, a peptic ulcer or polyps of a stomach.

The possible reasons of a stomach ache at pregnancy also:

• overeating,
• food indigestion,
• lock,
• injury,
• allergy,
• emotional stress, etc.

Stomach ache at pregnancy against the background of other dispepsichesky phenomena: nausea, vomitings, spasms, diarrheas - it can be caused by poisoning or a rotavirusny infection. Sometimes the gastralgia is also one of symptoms of pneumonia, quinsy and other viral or bacterial diseases.

Acute systematic stomach ache at pregnancy – a possible sign of an inflammation of appendicitis.

During a painful attack in a stomach at pregnancy it is recommended to ask for the help the doctor as soon as possible. Having estimated character and intensity of pain, the doctor will direct the patient to inspection or will appoint drugs for simplification of a state.

Self-treatment during pregnancy is hazardous to health of mother and the kid.