Magnesia during pregnancy

Magnesia, or magnesium sulfate, is magnesium salt.  The spectrum of the use of magnesia is very wide, in many ways it is determined by the positive effect of magnesium on the human body. Nowadays, drugs are used in medicine, which include magnesium salts. For example, Magne B6, containing magnesium lactate. The deficiency of magnesium in the body leads to diseases of the heart and impaired calcium metabolism in tissues and bones. Therefore, magnesium is part of biological additives and multivitamins.

Magnesia is produced in the form of powder or liquid. Magnesia powder is used as a laxative. To do this, the powder must be dissolved in water and drink the solution. Magnesia is not absorbed into the blood from the stomach and intestines and therefore does not affect the body as a whole. As a laxative can be used as a doctor’s prescription, as a cleanser before surgical or diagnostic manipulations.

Magnesia also has a choleretic effect, for this it is prescribed courses in the form of a weak solution. Such treatment is prescribed for gastrointestinal diseases, stagnation of bile.

Why is Magnesia prescribed during pregnancy

Magnesia is prescribed to pregnant women if there are certain diseases or causes: the threat of miscarriage, swelling, high pressure, convulsions. In the late pregnancy, magnesia prevents the development of cerebral paralysis in a newborn, since it protects the nerve tissue of the fetus. Also, magnesium preparations positively affect the acceleration of metabolism, which prevents the birth of children with a very small body weight.

The action of magnesia:

1. Normalizes pressure.
2. Relieves hypertonicity of the uterine muscles.
3. Relax the muscles and tone of blood vessels.
4. Removes muscle cramps.
5. Relieves swelling, removes excess liquid.
6. Prescribed for complex treatment, if there is a danger of placental exfoliation.
7. In complex therapy, if there is a delay in the development of the fetus.

Pregnant Magnesia is administered intramuscularly or intravenously, only in this form from magnesia can be expected. Magnesia powder dissolved in water does not enter the bloodstream, but acts only as a laxative.

The amount of injections and the concentration of magnesia depend on the condition of the pregnant woman. Therefore, treatment is prescribed by a doctor.

Indications and contraindications for magnesia during pregnancy

Magnesium sulfate is prescribed in cases where in a pregnant woman:

1. If there is a threat of miscarriage.
2. Hypertension with periodic crises.
3. Swelling, stagnant phenomena.
4. Convulsions. Lack of magnesium, confirmed by the results of laboratory research.
5. It is necessary to remove heavy metals from the body: mercury, lead, arsenic.
6. An attack of epilepsy.

Like all drugs, magnesia has contraindications:

1. Hypotension. Reduced blood pressure.
2. Unlocked magnesia.
3. Slowing heart rhythm.
4. Malignant tumor.
5. Chronic renal failure.
6. Immediately before childbirth in a few hours.
7. Exacerbation of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
8. Breastfeeding.

Magnesia treatment with vitamins or dietary supplements containing calcium cannot be combined. Magnesia cannot be taken at the beginning of pregnancy.

How to take magnesia at a time of pregnancy

Magnesia during pregnancy intramuscularly

Magnesia is rarely prescribed intramuscularly during pregnancy, as this reduces the effectiveness of treatment. Also, intramuscular administration of magnesia is a fairly unpleasant procedure. Intramuscular injections are painful and leave behind for a long time that are not passing “cones” in places of injection.

Magnesia during pregnancy intravenously

It is better to do injections of magnesia during pregnancy intravenously. The medicine enters the blood directly, which increases the effectiveness of treatment and allows you to immediately relieve the threat of miscarriage and muscle hypertonicity.

Magnesia treatment has its own characteristics, for example:

1. A solution of magnesia before the injection must be warm.
2. It is necessary to make an injection with a long needle.
3. The drug is administered very slowly.

That is why droppers are used.

Magnesia during pregnancy in droppers

Magnesia in the dropper allows you to administer the medicine slowly. The intake of magnesia in droppers is easier to carry, because after intramuscular injection, rather painful, seals in the places of introduction of injections remain. These seals are also painful and are not absorbed for a long time.

For a dropper during pregnancy, a 25%solution of magnesia is used. The number of droppers is determined by the doctor, while taking into account the state of the future mother and the course of pregnancy.

In what cases during pregnancy is prescribed magnesia in droppers:

1. There is a threat of premature birth. This is expressed in an increased tone of the uterine muscles. The expectant mother can feel pulling and stitching pains in the lower abdomen or heaviness in the lower back.
2. Hypertonic crises often occur, blood pressure rises.
3. Gestosis of pregnant women. This is swelling associated with the fact that the body is difficult to cope with the load. As a result, the kidneys of the pregnant woman suffer, the placenta detachment may occur.
4. An attack of epilepsy.
5. Convulsions, especially manifested at night. Convulsions often occur in the calf muscles. The appearance of convulsions can indicate a disease, for example, about Varricosis. And perhaps there is simply a lack of trace elements in the body of the future mommy.
6. Late toxicosis of pregnant women. This condition is called eclapsia.
7. It is necessary to remove heavy metals from the body of the pregnant woman.
8. Studies have shown a lack of magnesium in the body of the future mother.

What are the risks in the use of magnesia during pregnancy

You can read about side effects in the instructions for the use of magnesia, the attending physician should tell about this.

Side phenomena:

1. A drop in blood pressure.
2. General weakness.
3. Anxiety.
4. The appearance of headaches.
5.   Nausea.
6. An increase in urine.

During treatment with magnesia, medical staff observes the state of health of the pregnant woman. If the pulse began to slow down, blood pressure dropped sharply, it is urgent to inform the doctor. This indicates an overdose of magnesium sulfate.

A long course of treatment with magnesia during pregnancy is unacceptable, since the drug is accumulated in the mother’s body, which leads to fetal hypoxia. This is the name of the intrauterine condition of the fetus associated with oxygen deficiency. Fruit hypoxia is a serious deviation that threatens the health of the child. Therefore, the attending physician constantly controls the fetal heartbeat, prescribes the necessary tests to the future mommy.

There are situations when treatment with magnesia during pregnancy is simply necessary. This is due to the uterine hypertonicity, inexpressive pregnancy, a detachment of the placenta. In such cases, it is reasonable to agree to treatment in order to ensure the birth of a healthy baby.

To understand the difficult situation, it is best to find a doctor you trust.

Reviews of magnesia during pregnancy

If you doubt whether you can take magnesia during pregnancy, you need to talk to your doctor, read the reviews of pregnant women who have received treatment with magnesia.

Many future mothers are afraid that taking injections or droppers of magnesia will harm the child. But for a long period of use of magnesia precisely for pregnant women, the positive reviews of women allow you to calmly treat the appointments of magnesia at the attending physician. If the droppers of magnesia help to endure pregnancy and prevent risks, then the discomfort associated with the administration of the drug can be tolerated.

Future mothers who received magnesia during pregnancy note an improvement in the condition after taking droppers. A hypertonicity is removed, which was expressed by pulling pain in the lower back and lower abdomen.

Pregnant women suffering from edema and high pressure also more often respond positively. Edema falls and pressure normalizes.

It should be remembered that all drugs must be prescribed by a doctor, not self-medication and follow all the recommendations of the obstetrician-gynecologist. And then you are guaranteed a great state of health and the birth of a healthy baby.

Magnesium sulfate instructions for use. Video