Asthma and Pregnancy

Asthma is one of the common health problems that a pregnant women can experience at the time of pregnancy. It can also affect those women's also who had never experienced it before. Asthma reduces the supply of adequate oxygen to the foetus of the pregnant women. The common asthma symptoms generally includes wheezing, difficulty in breathing, etc. A majority of pregnant women are more concerned about the effects of asthma on their baby. Asthma if it is treated effectively can lead to healthy delivery. However, if the asthma is not cured properly then it can have a negative effect on the foetus of the pregnant women as well as on her baby. Also, it can give rise to some of the following problems:

• It can have a severe effect on the kidneys, lungs, brain, liver, etc.
• It can lead to complications during the time of pregnancy.

Besides these problems, asthma also presents some of the problems to the foetus of the pregnant women. Some of them are as follows:

1. It can lead to immediate death of the women after the delivery.
2. It leads to low birth weight.
3. It can also lead to a premature delivery.

A pregnant women diagnosed with asthma must immediately take the treatment; otherwise it can become fatal for her. The austerity of asthma varies from one women to other women. Asthma can attack the pregnant women during the seventeen to twenty four weeks of the pregnancy. A pregnant women must try out the following things in order to avoid asthma:

• She must immediately stop the consumption of alcohol and cigarettes.
• She must reduce the intake of caffeine.
• She must go for the blood test of various other diseases such as chicken pox, HIV, hepatitis B, etc.
• She must continue taking the medications prescribed by the doctor.
  

Asthma Medications and Pregnancy
A women diagnosed with the asthma must immediately take the medications from the doctor; otherwise this problem can worsen in the long run. The various researches' undertaken does not provide a very clear picture that any of drug used to cure asthma can lead to any problems during the time of pregnancy. One thing that can be done is that the pregnant women should be provided with the proper knowledge about the maintenance of asthma, proper use of inhalers, asthma prevention, etc. There are many medicines or drugs that are considered safe for the women's infected with asthma such as budesonide, Corticosteroid tablets, formoterol, theophylline, etc. Besides, there are several other medicines that should be avoided by the pregnant women's such as tetracycline, aspirin, iodides, etc.

Note: It is advisable that the pregnant women must take the asthma medicines only after the prescribed guidance of the doctor.