Dangerous disease when Pregnancy part 2

Midwife News-Mitral Valve Prolaps

Prolaps on the mitral valves, leaf of valves protruding into the left atrium during ventrikel contraction, sometimes cause leakage a small amount of blood into the atrium. Mitral valve Prolaps more often found in young women.
Symptoms, murmur, palpitation (heart throb), and sometimes unregulary heart rhythm. During pregnancy, most women of this disease do not experience complications. But during the process of childbirth is usually given intravena antibiotic (through a vein) to prevent infection in the heart valve.

High Blood Pressure
If you have a slightly high blood pressure (140/90 - 150/100 mmHg). Usually, doctors will stop using drugs to lower blood pressure. Drugs cause a high risk to the fetus than benefit for mother.
To control blood pressure, patients are advised to restrict salt Feed and reduce physical activity. Pregnant women who suffered from hypertension, midle (high blood pressure are, namely 150/90 - 180/110 mmHg), often have to continue to consume anti-hypertension drugs.
Anti-hypertension drugs which are usually given metildopa and hidralazin. Diuretic (medication that can remove excess fluid in the body) is not used because it can prevent the growth of fetus.
Each month inspections conducted kidney function and monitoring the growth of fetus with USG. Labor usually starts on 38th weeks of pregnancy. Pregnant women who suffer serious hypertension (above 180/110 mmHg) requires special care.
The pregnancy can aggravate hypertension and may cause swelling brain (stroke). In the female patients of hypertension more often occurs abrupsio plasenta (plasenta premature delivery), the dissolution of oxygen supply and oxygen to the fetus so that nutrition can fetus died. Even though there is no abrupsio plasenta, hypertension can cause reduced blood supply to the fetus so that the fetus be slow growth.
If the pregnancy would like to continue, usually should be given anti-hypertension drugs which are stronger. To protect the fetus and the mother, usually the patient must be treated hospitalization. If the condition worsened, it is recommended to end the pregnancy in order to save the mother.