Poisoning Pregnancy Leads to Koma
Diet Tips January 28th, 2011
Poisoned pregnancy or eclampsia, ranked second as a cause of maternal mortality in Indonesia. Eclampsia is a spasm and can lead to coma, which followed pregnant women experience preeclampsia conditions that are not handled properly.
Serious complication of preeclampsia itself is a collection of symptoms that include high blood pressure, proteinuri (the existence of excessive protein in urine) and edema (swelling due to excess fluid in body tissues). This condition can be experienced by mothers during pregnancy, childbirth, or parturition.
Preeclampsia most experienced by first-time mothers who are pregnant, teenage pregnancies are also at or above the age of 40 years. Other risk factors related to pregnancy, history of hypertension, history of preeclampsia in mother or sister, obesity-related pregnancy, twin pregnancy, history of diabetes, kidney disease, lupus, or rheumatoid arthritis.
Symptoms of preeclampsia are:
* Body weight is more than 1 kg per week.
* Headache.
* Abdominal pain.
* Swelling in the feet, hands and face.
* The problem of vision.
Still difficult to gauge where pregnant women with preeclampsia who will experience a seizure. However, the high risk of seizures, among others:
* Abnormal blood test results.
* Headache.
* Very high blood pressure.
* Impaired vision.
Until now the exact cause of eclampsia is not knowable. Experts suspect that the condition of blood vessels, nervous system and brain factors, diet, and genetic factors play a part.
Diet-related problems, a study in Seattle, United States, found that women with preeclampsia have a level of consumption of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is low. In a study of 283 high risk women, preeclampsia down on the group using the antioxidant, vitamin C and F
