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Preganancy And Shingles
Pregnancy and shingles poses potential risks for both mother and baby and should be dealt with carefully. If you are planning to conceive, find out if you have chicken pox or shingles immunity. If you had previous history of chicken pox, the risk of pregnancy and shingles to develop is most like less than those who had not have chicken pox in their lives. Pregnancy and shingles should be dealt with by consulting your doctor to test your blood for immunity and if you are not immune he will give you immunity by injecting immunoglobulin before you conceive. Pregnancy and shingles can cause difficulties to the fetus and the conceiving mother if nothing had been done to immunize the mother. Pregnancy and shingles can cause complications and dangers including to the expectant mother. It is extremely important to avoid chickenpox or shingles during pregnancy. For the mother it can develop varicella pneumonia such a complication can even lead to death.).It can cause inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) that is rare but a serious complication. An unborn child could develop abnormalities if chicken pox virus is caught within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy and yet the risk is even higher if the virus is caught earlier than 20 weeks. If the virus is caught after the 20th week of pregnancy, the risk of abnormality to the baby is less. However, if you have chickenpox or shingles is caught within seven days before or after delivery the newborn baby may develop a severe form of chickenpox.
Pregnancy and shingles can be dealt with extra precaution to prevent contracting the virus. If you are pregnant, stay from crowd epically in shopping malls, buses, trains and other public place. The virus causing shingles and chicken pox could be floating around which poses a big risk for you and your baby. Unlike chickenpox, shingles is not transmitted through the coughs and sneezes that circulated through air. Shingles are usually caught from contact with the rash or touching the blisters.
Pregnancy and shingles is a serious matter and should be dealt with accordingly. See a doctor as soon as possible if you suspect that you have chickenpox or shingles while you are pregnant, or within seven days of giving birth. Remedies can be administered using antiviral drugs but this treatment is most effective within 24 hours the rash started appearing on your skin. Treatment administered on mothers who are more than 20 weeks pregnant does not cure the illness, yet it makes it less severe and reduces the effects it might have on the fetus. Pregnant woman can be admitted to a hospital with an intensive care unit for treatment with intravenous drug and at the same monitoring of blood.
Pregnancy and shingles is a special concern when the pregnant woman is less than 24 weeks' gestation. The virus can cause defects syndrome on the baby and varicella pneumonitis for women who never had been immunization at all. To avoid chickenpox in the pregnant woman, prophylaxis should be given to the pregnant woman if someone in the same household is infected with the virus.
