How to overcome common pregnancy discomforts

How to overcome common pregnancy discomforts

It is more common in the morning and early pregnancy and may occur at any time during the day and at any stage of pregnancy. It usually starts in the sixth week of pregnancy and then settles between the 14 and 16 weeks.

The causes are unknown but have been linked to changes in hormone levels during pregnancy.

Suggestions that can help:

  • Eat small meals and light things at frequent intervals because a feeling of stomach emptiness and hunger can make nausea worse.
  • Drink plenty of fluids and avoid loss of water from the body such as sweating and vomiting.
  • Try drinking water, fruit juices, soups, chilled or boiled chili, lemon juice, ginger, soda and mineral water.
  • Avoid anything that can cause nausea, such as: foods that contain too many spices, spices, fat and foods with powerful aromatherapy, coffee, tea, alcohol or cigarette smoke.
  • Making sudden and powerful movements such as fast recovery from bed, running and going to shower under the shower makes you feel nauseated and nauseated.
  • Take a lot of rest because nausea is worse when you’re tired.
  • If you do not benefit from any of these methods and you feel tired. If you are absent and you lose weight, it is necessary to return your doctor.
  • There are medicines available to control the feeling of vomiting and morning sickness, which is safe and harmless during pregnancy.

Pregnancy hormones can weaken bowel muscles and cause constipation in some women.

It may be helpful to do the following:

  • Be sure to include plenty of fiber in your food, for example, fresh fruit and vegetables without peeling, bread made from whole wheat grains (unsweetened: bran bread: brown bread) and cornflakes in breakfast, dried fruits and crustaceans (almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, etc.) ), Legumes (chick peas, beans, beans, etc.).
  • Eat fiber additives such as quaker.
  • Drink plenty of water and fluids.
  • Do regular exercise regularly.
  • Avoid laxatives beyond consulting your doctor.
  • Constipation can occur as a result of ingestion of iron pills. Ask your doctor if it is appropriate to take other foods instead of the pills you are taking.

Some women during pregnancy have an urgent desire for food. We need to have plenty of calcium during pregnancy, tomatoes, oranges. (Pregnant women need a quantity of vitamin C). Some women may feel an urge to eat things that are not foods such as chalk and chlorine when there is anemia.

Women sometimes feel that the taste of food is somewhat different or that they refuse to eat some foods like tea, coffee and meat. This condition usually settles with pregnancy progression.

If you have difficulty eating some foods that are necessary and important for your diet, it may be appropriate to try it at a later stage during pregnancy.

Occurs partly as a result of changes in hormone levels and later in the result of fetal growth, which leads to increased pressure on the stomach.

Burning in the stomach is a burning sensation in the chest accompanied by an acid or bitter taste in the mouth.

It is useful to:

  • Eat small meals at frequent, close, and calm intervals (avoid nervousness / stress / eating speed).
  • Avoid fatty foods that contain a lot of spices and spices.
  • Sleep and you are half sitting (support your head with several pillows).
  • Drink a cup of milk before eating half an hour.
  • Avoid drinking during meals.
  • If these measures do not work, your doctor may prescribe anti-acid medications, many of which are safe during pregnancy.

Most pregnant women experience sleep difficulties in the early stages of pregnancy

At this point, sleep is a bit annoying and very quick to wake up to go to the toilet (the bathroom) and the burning of the stomach and increase the feeling of beating fetal feet and feeling uncomfortable lying on the bed.

Some women can suffer from nightmares or nightmares during sleep during the last two months of pregnancy, which can be seen as a result of anxiety about approaching birth and feeling of motherhood.

Good tips to help sleep:

  • Stretching on one side (preferably the left side) Place a pillow under your belly and another between your knees.
  • Take a rest during the day (afternoon nap).
  • Avoid drinking stimulants like tea, coffee and alcohol before going to bed for several hours.
  • Go to bed only when you are tired and tired and really want to sleep.
  • Do exercises such as walking late in the afternoon or early in the evening.
  • Have comfortable activities before going to bed, such as lying in the warm bath water, listening to quiet music, massage, massage, meditation and meditation.

It is a bloody vein swollen around the anus (the exit of the stool), which gives the feeling of itching is painful and hemorrhoid hemorrhage of a little blood and go to spend the need in the toilet uncomfortable and may begin due to severe constipation or pressure of the head of the fetus.

It may be useful to:

  • Be sure to include plenty of fiber in your food, for example, raw fruit, fresh vegetables and bread made from whole wheat grains, non-macaroni, and cereal chips at breakfast.
  • Avoid standing for long periods.
  • Avoid too much tedious stretching to remove the faeces as you sit in your toilet.
  • Talk to your doctor about fats or ointments and appropriate suppositories if bleeding and soreness persist.
  • In a few cases, you may need to consult your surgeon.

Most women release from their vaginas increased amounts of secretions during pregnancy.

If the smell of these secretions is unpleasant and causes pain or inflammation or if it is without any color, it may mean that you have vaginal inflammation and that the most common infections are vaginal secretions and it is important that you return your doctor to prescribe the treatment and you will be immediately followed.

Frequent urination is at the beginning of pregnancy as a result of a change in the size of the fetus that presses on your bladder. You may find it more difficult to completely discharge the urine in the advanced stage of pregnancy because of the pressure of the fetus on the urine outlet of the bladder.

In the last few weeks of your pregnancy, urine may leak out of you involuntarily as you stab or sneeze and increase weight.

You can discuss with your doctor the exercise of the pelvic floor.

Any soreness or feeling of burning when you urinate may mean you have an inflammation so you should go back to your doctor.

There may also be urinary infection even without any symptoms and here is useful for the cultivation of urine and not the normal analysis to detect inflammation and then give appropriate treatment, which should start immediately to prevent the negative effects of inflammation on pregnancy.

Muscle cramps in the foot, leg and thighs are common during pregnancy, especially during the night. The causes of muscle contraction are unclear.

To help relieve cramps or muscle cramps:

  • Massage, massage and stretching of the affected limb during cramping often relieve pain and provide rest.
  • Compresses and warm water.
  • Fat with warm olive oil.
  • Taking calcium pills may be helpful.

8% of pregnant women will experience swelling of this type. There is an extra amount of fluid in your body’s tissues during pregnancy, and some of these fluids accumulate in your legs, especially in the final stage of pregnancy. If you stand for long periods, especially in hot weather, the fluid causes swelling in the ankles and feet. This swelling can be observed at the end of the day and usually the tumor dims at night when you are asleep.

Tell your doctor about:

  • If the tumor is more than a mild tumor.
  • If the tumor does not diminish as a result of rest.
  • If you notice swelling in other parts of your body.

To relieve the tumor:

  • Avoid standing for a long time.
  • Take frequent breaks and lift your feet up.
  • Wear comfortable and spacious shoes in your feet.
  • When sleeping, put pillows under your feet
  • You may have symptoms of high blood pressure or an early symptom of pre-eclampsia.

Most women experience back pain at some stages of pregnancy. The causes can change the body’s position according to fetal development and the result of changes in the levels of hormones that will lead to the relaxation of muscle tendons and because of fluid retention in the tissues and have a backache worse during the night and contribute to difficulties in sleep, especially in the final stages of pregnancy.

In order to avoid back pain and reduce:

  • Avoid heavy objects and exhausting housework.
  • Avoid standing for a long time.
  • Take frequent breaks and lift your feet up.
  • Be aware of the position of your body to stand or sit.
  • Use fixed-backed chairs and chairs to support your back when you sit down.

Some pregnant women may feel faint. In most likely that you will feel faint if it gets from the chair you’re sitting on it quick and cursory way or you quickly from a hot tub Awama bathroom and stood for a long time. When you feel your first symptoms of fainting, stretch or feel numb. In late pregnancy can cause expansion Awalastelqa on the back Balhaourbalagme If turned on your side, you’ll feel better with satisfaction.

Call your doctor if you have recurring episodes of dizziness (dizziness) and fainting.

The more the fetus is flexed, the more the skin becomes tight in the abdominal area and becomes more intense. This may cause a feeling of itching. This is normal in pregnancy. However, contact your doctor if the treatment continues for a long time. This may be a sign of a more serious problem.

Pregnancy may change the color of your skin and this is caused by hormones pregnancy, the extra blood that runs in the veins around your body causes the glow of your skin color, but for some women may cause the emergence of red spots and acne may be worse. Areas of your skin may become dry and peeling and you may notice deep colored seeds in your face. Changes in colored skin granules occur in almost every woman, especially in the naturally colored parts of the body, such as dowry, scalp, freckles, and genital area, and between the thighs, under the eyes and under the arms, the colors may become darker. Some women can show a dark line in the middle of the abdomen (black line). Norelchas increases the affected areas and some of them find that their skin is getting brighter in the sun more easily during pregnancy and even after birth. Some changes in skin color remain dark for a period of time, but their color will gradually fade and disappear.

Is a special form of discoloration of the skin and appears as brown spots on the bridge of the nose and on the cheeks and neck (neck). Dark-skinned women have darker spots on the skin of the face and neck. The color of the spots gradually disappears after birth and you may need some cosmetics to cover the spots.

About 90 percent of women retain the effects of skin enlargement due to pregnancy. These effects appear throughout the abdominal range however only affect the thighs, hips, breasts and upper arms. Gradually increasing body weight allows the skin to expand without rupture, while red staining appears clearly during pregnancy.

There are some ointments or creams that can put on the skin to prevent / reduce these diagrams.

Dr.. Abdel Raouf Riad