High blood pressure after childbirth, what to do?

High blood pressure after childbirth is increasingly common in medical practice, but the period of pregnancy is often overshadowed by unpleasant symptoms of hypertension. Vascular hypertonicity in this condition provokes the risk of developing serious catastrophes in the body at any gestational age and at the time of direct expulsion of the fetus. Sometimes these conditions not only impede the development of the fetus, but also endanger the life of the mother and child. Constant vascular tone adversely affects the possibility of adequate blood supply to the fetus and its membranes, at the same time wears out the mother's arterial and venous bed.

Types of hypertension

The twentieth week of pregnancy becomes the frontier for determining the type of hypertension. After the middle of the term, an increase in pressure flows over the diagnosis of gestational hypertension, before it - indicates the presence of a pathology without connection with pregnancy.

Hypertension of a chronic course occurs in a woman's body long before pregnancy, becomes significantly heavier when carrying a child and does not go away with his birth.

The variety of types of hypertension in pregnant women leaves behind the same clinical picture.

1. The characteristic symptoms of the disease are confirmed during the measuring procedure according to the Korotkoff method. The measurement technique most accurately reflects the pressure that blood exerts on the vessels after ejection from the heart. This indicator can be both overestimated and underestimated, which in any case causes discomfort for any person, and not just a pregnant woman.
2. Persistent high blood pressure obtained from at least three measurement procedures confirms the diagnosis of hypertension. Even if the diagnosis is not confirmed, it is necessary to continue measuring pressure constantly while maintaining the clinic and complaints characteristic of increased arterial tone.
3. The main process of the postpartum state of a woman is the formation of natural feeding. Sometimes lactation already in women begins to work excessively, which is regulated by taking the drug bromocriptine. His appointment should be strictly justified, and not the result of the whim of a woman in labor, carefully monitoring her appearance. A history of arterial hypertension is also a reason for refusing to take bromocriptine, even in case of urgent need.

postpartum recovery

The difficult physiological process of childbirth requires subsequent rest even for an absolutely healthy young woman. The presence of diseases in a woman in labor weakens the body, which throws all its strength into the expulsion of the fetus. After the outcome of pregnancy, a woman needs rest and rest for at least twelve hours. It’s good if the newly-minted mommy manages to sleep.

Mandatory rest will restore lost strength and will not allow various pathologies to manifest themselves.

A rested, restored organism will not respond to overexertion with high pressure and vascular resistance, as is often the case.

The next day should also take place in a gentle unloading mode. The desire to restore the figure should not be accompanied by exercise and diet from the first day from the moment of birth. Attempts to first feed babies should also be short and not cause fatigue and irritation, they should be replaced by rest in a comfortable bed, a light patting massage of the mammary glands.

Nutrition in the postpartum period already includes restrictions.

Products that can increase pressure and saturate the milk secretion with allergenic substances should be excluded.

This applies to:

1. citrus fruits,
2. smoked meats and pickles,
3. strong tea and coffee,
4. chocolate.

It is advisable to change your usual diet already during pregnancy. This is especially true for women who have close relatives whose pressure after the birth of a child differed from the established norm.

Hypertension is most often inherited, and such a difficult period for the body as pregnancy, and, in particular, childbirth, can provoke the onset of the disease. A salt-restricted diet can help delay this indefinitely. It is this substance that becomes the culprit of thickening the blood and increasing vascular tone, which forms high pressure.

Calcium-rich foods will help increase the body's defenses of a woman "in position":

• milk products,
• buckwheat grain,
• fresh fruits.

Preventive measures do not always stop high blood pressure, moreover, many expectant mothers are not aware of their predisposition.

Nevertheless, it is simply necessary to find new ways to deal with hypertension, since the causes of other complications of pregnancy lie precisely in it.

1. High pressure primarily affects small vessels and capillaries, causing damage to the eyes and kidneys.
2. Women dramatically lose their visual acuity, begin to see poorly at dusk and acquire problems with the excretory organs.
3. In the hospital, women who have received pulmonary edema as a complication of hypertension are monitored for a long time. The causes of this disease lie in heart failure against the background of high blood pressure.
4. Vasoconstriction due to hypertension entails both mental disorders and cerebral pathologies.

Often the first signs of hypertension are excruciating headaches that do not go away with taking an analgesic. For lactating women, this is a significant test at all, because most drugs penetrate the secret of the mammary glands, and mothers deliberately refuse painkillers. Then folk recipes acquire their relevance.

Traditional medicine and healthy lifestyle in the fight against postpartum hypertension

The recipes of traditional healers are especially relevant in the postpartum period in women, since the new role of the mother makes one afraid of all the chemicals of various pharmaceutical forms. Uncontrolled intake of drugs is simply unacceptable, since most of them in high concentrations enter the mother's milk and are passed on to the child. However, there are plenty of postpartum diseases, and the hated hypertension makes more and more women suffer after the birth of a child.

Traditional medicine offers recipes for eliminating the manifestations of hypertension without harm to the child and the nursing mother.

However, you can follow simple recommendations for a healthy lifestyle:

• Both mother and newborn baby enjoy spending time outdoors.
• If weather conditions do not allow a lot of time for walks, it is often necessary to ventilate the room and the room of the mother with the child.
• The duration of sleep in babies up to one month takes up to twenty hours a day, during which the mother must also rest. This should be strictly taken into account by the relatives of the woman and not to fully impose family responsibilities on her.
• Mothers with an established diagnosis of hypertension need to show even more attention to themselves.
• Everyday activities of a woman should not increase blood flow to the head and upper parts of the body: you should avoid sharp and excessive bending forward and to the side, rest and sleep on a small pillow of hard filling.
• Small rises in pressure can be eliminated independently using improvised means. So, compresses from hot bottles on the lower legs will divert blood to the limbs. Alternatively, you can use hot foot baths or alternately immersing them under a hot water shower.

In such cases, they are used in halved doses, although motherwort and valerian are absolutely harmless to young children and are not allergenic.

For women with hypertension after childbirth, it is important to maintain water balance.

The intake of the optimal amount of fluid will allow you to fully provide the child with food and maintain the required volume of the vascular bed. The amount of clean drinking water consumed by a nursing woman should be at least three liters.

Women also need a complete vitamin complex in the diet. Proper vascular tone is provided by the content of vitamins C and P in food, which also help to resist vascular wear. Citrus fruits rich in vitamin C are unacceptable in the diet of nursing mothers, but they can be easily replaced with rosehip infusions and cranberry fruit drinks.

Vitamin P is present in:

• buckwheat,
• beef,
• rabbit meat.

And yet it is important to provide a woman after childbirth and her baby with maximum psychological comfort. Such a condition is mandatory for any newly-made mother, regardless of the presence of diseases and chronic pathologies. Positive emotions will be the best defenders against high blood pressure and its painful clinical picture with a lot of complications.