I know there's something about high blood pressure but how does that occur.. my blood pressure has always been in the low normal range.
2007-01-11 14:28:26 · 7 answers · asked by tunafish 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
A wonderful website that you might be interested in checking out is www.blueribbonbaby.org . This is Dr. Tom Brewer's website and, taken from the website:
Dr. Thomas Brewer is this century's foremost crusader for healthy mothers and babies. In the sixties he stopped drug companies from promoting diuretics for pregnant women with preeclampsia/toxemia, and he eliminated toxemia completely from his own obstetrical practice with what has since come to be called The Brewer Medical Diet for Normal and High-Risk Pregnancy.
Dr. Brewer advocates a simple regimen of good nutrition to prevent and in some cases even reverse a host of common complications of pregnancy, including toxemia, low birth weight, prematurity, and preterm labor.
The studies and work that Dr. Brewer had done is amazing, and a must read for any pregnant woman. I hope you find it useful.
2007-01-11 15:17:15 · answer #1 · answered by mcdaid36 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had toxemia. I still have no clue why I had it. I do know that my body tries to reject pregnancies though. I miscarried my first baby at 8 weeks. From the time I was 6 weeks the baby was no longer viable but I didn't miscarry for 8 weeks. Then I had toxemia with my 2 1/2 year old. I had placenta abruptio with my youngest. Each time I get pregnant I am considered high risk.
To answer your question again, I still have no clue why I had toxemia.
I have to disagree with the first answer. I didn't have a cat and was never around cat litter. So that is definitely not the reason.
2007-01-11 14:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine has been lnormal as well. I was due on Feb 22 04 and i had a doctors appointment on feb 23. I went to the doctor and boom! My blood pressure was sky high. Don't know why.They induced my labor that day and I had to end up having a c-sec because my pressure would not go down. My fiinal day in the hospital, I almost couldnt go home because my pressure was still high! I had to gon on meds and here we are almost 3 years later and no signs of high blood pressure. I never got toxemia or preeclampsia because they started treating it immediately.
2007-01-11 14:34:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows why some women develop pre-e while pregnant. It can happen to anyone, but is most common in first pregnancies.
My BP had always been low to low normal range too. But I had to deliver my daughter at 35 weeks due to me getting really sick with pre-e. Delivery is the only cure for it.
2007-01-11 14:56:11 · answer #4 · answered by gummygrins 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can be at higher risk if other females in your family had it when they were pregnant, but it all depends on your preganacy kind of like gestational diabetes, there are no direct causes it is just how your body responds to a pregnancy.
2007-01-11 14:38:36 · answer #5 · answered by Jody 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diabetes is usually treated through a combination of diet (low sugar), exercise and medications/insulin. Read here https://tr.im/N6U9X
Milder cases can be controlled with just diet an/or exercise while more severe cases require meds or insulin as well.
2016-05-02 16:36:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First respondent is referring to toxmoplasmosis not toxema.
2007-01-11 14:42:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that toxemia has something to do with cleaning out cat's litter - something to do with animal feces...
2007-01-11 14:32:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋