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What are the symptoms?

The narrowing of the bronchial asthma made to feel one or more of these problems: difficulty breathing, tightness and whistling in the chest, coughing and phlegm.

What percentage affects more women?

In adulthood, 2 out of 3 asthmatic women.

Family responsibilities that usually fall more heavily on women can you make the disease worse?

Adult women and mainly in the average age of life, have work and responsibility within and outside the home, are often primary caretakers of their children, and increasingly more often for their grandchildren and their elders. There is no time for self-care. Moreover, all these tasks are usually not recognized or rewarded by society or by the members of his family, who see it as “a natural” This is the way that makes women easy prey to anxiety and depression. In this situation it is difficult for women who are asthmatic may be able to control their asthma.

Does asthma can cause complications to the fetus and mother during pregnancy?

Yes, both.

When these complications occur?

The complications for the fetus and mother, when pregnant are reduced or stop treatment that controls his asthma inhaler, and this is manifested as she begins to cough, have whistling in the chest and bad breath, and even can having a severe asthma attack.

What are the main complications that can affect the fetus when the asthma is controlled?

Mainly by maternal asthma (caused by the lack of oxygen supply) in the fetus can occur:

- A low growth during pregnancy and low birth weight due to lack of symptom control throughout the pregnancy.

- Premature delivery when necessary to use oral steroids for an asthma attack.

- Malformations

- Increased perinatal mortality from lack of oxygen at birth.

What complications can cause this lack of control to the mother?

It can produce:

- A lower growth of the placenta (low input and low fetal growth)

- Abortions spontaneous.

- Placenta previa (risk of severe bleeding)

- Preeclampsia

- More likely to have a caesarean

Being asthmatic, would it be wise to consult a pulmonologist before thinking about pregnancy?

The asthmatic woman, from the moment it is the first rule should be informed on this subject.

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