Pregnant women who experience seizures due to high blood pressure have a condition known as eclampsia, a severe complication of preeclampsia.
Periods of unbalanced brain activity known as seizures can lead to violent shaking, convulsions, and episodes of staring.
Symptoms
You may experience symptoms of both preeclampsia and eclampsia because they can occur together; however, some of your symptoms could also be caused by other medical conditions, such as diabetes or kidney disease. It’s important to disclose all medical conditions to your doctor so they can rule out other potential causes.
Preeclampsia frequently manifests as the following symptoms:
- elevated blood pressure
- increase in size of hands or face
- headaches
- excessive weight gain
- nausea and vomiting
- issues with the eyesight, such as episodes of blindness or haze
- difficulty urinating
- upper right abdomen in particular, with stomach pain
The following are typical signs of eclampsia, which can manifest in patients with the same symptoms as those listed above or even without any symptoms at all.
- seizures
- loss of consciousness
- agitation
Causes
Preeclampsia is characterized by high blood pressure that occurs during pregnancy and, in rare cases, after delivery. Eclampsia frequently develops after preeclampsia, and other symptoms, such as protein in the urine, may also be present.
High blood pressure
Preeclampsia is a condition that develops when your blood pressure, or the force of blood against the walls of your arteries, rises to a level that damages them and other blood vessels, causing swelling in the blood vessels that supply your brain and your developing baby, restricting blood flow, and possibly even causing seizures.
Proteinuria
Protein in your urine, also known as proteinuria, is a common sign of preeclampsia and frequently affects kidney function. Each time you see a doctor, your urine may be tested for protein.
If your kidneys’ filters, called glomeruli, are damaged, protein can leak through and excrete into urine. Normally, your kidneys filter waste from blood and create urine from these wastes. However, the kidneys try to retain nutrients in the blood, like protein, for redistribution to body.
Risk Factor
You might be at risk for eclampsia if you have preeclampsia or have ever had it.
Other potential causes of pregnancy-related eclampsia include:
- pregnancy-related or persistent hypertension
- being either over the age of 35 or under the age of 20
- twin or triplet pregnancy
- first-time pregnancy
- diabetes or another blood vessel-related condition
- kidney disease
Eclampsia and baby
Preeclampsia and eclampsia affect the placenta, which is the organ responsible for transferring nutrients and oxygen from the mother’s blood to the fetus. If high blood pressure impairs the placenta’s ability to do its job, the baby may be born prematurely or with other health issues.
For the baby’s health and safety, issues with the placenta frequently necessitate preterm delivery; in rare instances, these issues result in stillbirth.
Diagnosis
- Blood tests
- Creatinine test
- Urine tests
HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT
Abies-can
Pickles are her favorite food, and she has unusual hunger that makes her feel weak and woozy.
Acetic-acid
During pregnancy, women may experience sour belching, vomiting, excessive water brash, and salivation throughout the day and night, giving the impression that they have a stomach ulcer. They may also experience intense thirst, frequent urination, and severe prostration.
Aletris-far
Obstinate vomiting while pregnant; obstinate indigestion; much sluggishness; excessive nausea and disgust for food; frequent attacks of fainting with vertigo; persistent sleepiness with emaciation; constipation.
Anacardium
While eating or after vomiting food, nausea can occur. Weak digestion is accompanied by fullness and abdominal distension. Morning nausea with an empty feeling in the stomach.
Antimonium-crud
Constant vomiting accompanied by convulsions, a milky tongue (Kali mur), eructations that taste like food, disturbances from an overloaded stomach, and a desire for acids are all symptoms.
Argentum-nit
Belching causes the sensation that your stomach is about to explode with wind and that your head is expanding. You also experience nausea after every meal, but especially at dinner, and you throw up sour, bitter, yellow, and green tough fluid.
Arsenicum
vomiting of green or black matter after consuming food and liquids, as well as at night; feeling as though cold water is on the stomach despite a strong desire for it; burning pains in the praecordium and agony; burning pains in the stomach, bowels, and breasts; extreme weakness and exhausting diarrhoea; (>) by motion; food is enjoyed but leaves a bitter taste in the mouth; dislike of meats and a preference for fruits and vegetables;
Asarum-europ
The stomach rejects everything during the first few months of pregnancy, and there is a constant urge to urinate. Other symptoms include constant chilly feelings, even in warm environments, nervous hyperaesthesia, and a perfect clean tongue.
Berberis
She fears every downward motion, the bitter taste of even her own saliva, and the flatulence and distention she experiences after every meal.
Bismuth
White tongue, flatulence, and great prostration when vomiting. The vomit also had a warm surface.
Bovista
After breakfast, morning sickness sets in and she VOMITS ONLY WATER (>); her stomach feels like it contains a lump of ice; and her genitalia feel voluptuous.
Bryonia
Nausea and vomiting (
Cadmium-sulph
vomiting that is exhaustingly persistent and accompanied by severe gastric irritability, (
Cantharis
Dysuria, burning at the pylorus, distaste for food and drink, violent retching while vomiting, and severe colic.
Carbolic-acid
Pregnant women who vomit may also have a frantic headache and be irritable. They may also feel sick in the morning, have a dull ache in their stomach, or experience bowel torpor.
Cocculus
Headache, a predisposition to throw up upon rising in the morning, and a propensity to dizzy spells; (
Coffea
Continuous throat nausea; lack of sleep; a giddy mood; intolerance for pain, etc.
Colchicum
Great sensitivity to food smells; unconcerned with surroundings; anxious; face flushed; faint ache around navel as if she must eat; hatred and disgust for food at the thought, sight, or smell of it; all attempts to eat cause violent nausea and vomiting; albuminuria, CANNOT STAND ERECT OR LIE DOWN WITH STRETCHED-OUT LEGS WITHOUT VOMITING; must flex knees together for relief.
Collinsonia
Vomiting and nauseous with stomach heat and cramp-like pains; OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION.
Conium
Breast swelling or soreness, especially if it has been a regular occurrence during menstruation; intermittent urination; eructations; and heartburn. In addition, women with scirrhosities often experience severe nausea and vomiting, with the vomited material appearing white and frothy or like coffee grounds.
Convallaria
After vomiting a clear liquid that looked like phlegm, nausea when rising from the pillow in the morning.
Cuprum-ars
Constant nausea and vomiting, a rapid and full heartbeat, extreme weakness, spasmodic uterine pain, etc.
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