Yeast Infection During Pregnancy

Most frequent "causer" of infectious problems during pregnancy - yeast fungus with rather poetic name "white candida" or Candida albicans. This fungus causes the infectious disease, named a candidiasis, more known as yeast infection or thrush infection.

At pregnant women the candidiasis meets in 2-3 times more often, than at no pregnant women. It is connected with the raised level of female sexual hormones which leads to change of micro flora of vagina and creation of favorable conditions for reproduction of fungi. During pregnancy the chemical environment in vagina becomes sourer - and it is very favorable for fungus. Hormonal changes in organism conduct to decrease in immunity and activity of leukocytes that also promotes the strengthened reproduction of fungus in vagina of mother to-be.

The diagnosis "candidiasis" proves to be true or excluded by microscopic research of dab taken from woman’s vagina, DNA analysis (PCR) or bacteriological sowing.

Fetus infection usually occurs an ascending way. The causative agent can affect many organs and systems of fetus, but is more often limited to umbilical cord, skin, mucous of mouth and bronchial and pulmonary system. At considerable distribution of fungus consequence for fetus can be crushing (up to death).

How to treat the yeast infection during pregnancy? Remedies for yeast infections, that are promising to cure disease with one pill, in fact only lull illness, reducing its symptoms. The infection in organism remains and continues to harm woman’s organism. Rising on ascending, it becomes the reason of inflammatory diseases of the internal organs. As consequences adhesive processes are developing. Adhesion cause painful sensations which especially amplify when the uterus wall is stretched with increase in term of pregnancy. Presence of adhesion during pregnancy threatens fetus growing and woman health.

Infant, passing through patrimonial ways, has big chance to catch the yeast infection from mum. Result - vesicles on tongue or whitish touch on child’s gum. Treatment of the yeast infection demands application of the special scheme, which appoints your doctor.

Certainly, it is desirable to cure the yeast infection at a stage of planning of pregnancy. If it is found out when you are already in expectation of baby, don’t despair. For today there are ways of treatment also for pregnant women. First of all it is local therapy – candles, vaginal tablets, creams - and, certainly, ozone therapy.

In general for candidiasis treatment it can be applied both system therapy, and local therapy. System preparations are the tablets accepted inside, operating first of all in intestines, and then soaked up in blood and getting into all bodies and organism tissue. However during pregnancy their reception is limited because of their toxicity and collateral actions. During pregnancy reception of ineffective Nistatin and Pimafucin only is possible. Pimafucin is anti fungal preparation of a choice during pregnancy and feeding. It possesses sufficient efficiency and is nontoxic even in high doses. Other system preparations (Diflucan, Levorin, Nizoral, Clotrimazol or Canesten and other) are counter-indicative during pregnancy.

You should revise your diet: it is necessary to limit sweet, flour, acrid food and to love bifida products.

It is important to remember that all preparations for candidiasis treatment should be prescribed by physician. He/she will be based to specific features of woman - propensities to an allergy, conditions of liver and kidneys, features of pregnancy. Self-treatment at pregnancy can be dangerous both for the woman, and for the baby!

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