Actovegin - a drug that prevents the occurrence of hypoxia (lack of oxygen). This is very important during pregnancy, when it often happens that a child begins to lack of oxygen, and this affects all organs and tissues, primarily brain tissue.

Pregnancy Complications

Today obstetricians antenatal clinics carefully monitor pregnant women, allowing time to identify and being treated all the complications of pregnancy.

When placental (fruit-placental) failure violated exchange, providing food fetal tissues and endocrine (synthesis of hormones that support pregnancy) function of the placenta.

Properties aktovegina

When placental insufficiency obstetricians commonly prescribed aktovegin - a natural product extracted from calves' blood, which contains low molecular weight peptides and amino acid derivatives. It improves the metabolism in tissues, their nutrition and cell renewal. But most importantly - aktovegin increases the resistance of tissues to lack of oxygen (hypoxia), this increases glucose uptake (improved its transport), which leads to an improvement of energy metabolism, because glucose - a source of energy. Action aktovegina realized mainly at the level of capillaries (small blood vessels) of the placenta. All this leads to an increase in the energy reserves of cells, which is very important in conditions of lack of energy - this leads to its resistance to oxygen starvation.

Aktovegin also significantly improves arterial and venous circulation, including in the "mother - placenta - fetus." Proper blood flow to the fetus leads to an increase of its mass, and improve cerebral circulation, which is the prevention of perinatal (occurring during the second half of pregnancy for the first week after birth) brain lesions child. In this regard, reducing the frequency of early delivery, including the use of cesarean section Caesarean section: do not rush to go under the knife That were required urgently in severe oxygen starvation Fasting - this is natural   fetus, and thus decreases the number of complications during pregnancy.

Application aktovegina during pregnancy

Application aktovegina in the second half of pregnancy had a positive impact on a child in a developing placental insufficiency: improved blood flow in the blood vessels of the placenta leads to a rapid recovery of growth and development, and the formation of better tolerance of child labor.

More precisely set aktovegina advancement in pregnant women is impossible, because it consists only of physiological components that normally always present in the human body. Rapid absorption and distribution to tissues aktovegin allow use for treatment of both chronic and acute fetal oxygen deficiency.

The antenatal aktovegin usually administered intravenously daily for two weeks (a total of 10 times on saturday) with further transition to pills one tablet three times a day for a month. Sometimes aktovegin prescribed for the prevention of fetal hypoxia. In this case, the tablets are used for tablet 3 times a day for three weeks. Aktovegin not toxic and adverse reactions, even at doses that are 30-40 times higher than the dose for human.

Contraindications

Aktovegin has virtually no contraindications except for individual intolerance to the drug. For intravenous drip with a large enough volume of solution takes into account the presence of edema pregnant and her state of the cardiovascular system.

Aktovegin - a natural drug that significantly reduces the risk of perinatal brain damage in the fetus in terms of placental insufficiency. Take it yourself without a prescription is not necessary, because in some cases one aktovegina is not enough to reduce the effects of hypoxia in the fetus. In addition, such a condition requires constant medical supervision and monitoring of the child (for that women with placental insufficiency regularly cardiotocography).

In appointing aktovegina pregnant woman has to visit more often an obstetrician-gynecologist of female consultation and undergo additional tests and specialist consultations. But this is not happening because aktovegin dangerous, but because the state of placental insufficiency requires continuous close monitoring.

Galina Romanenko

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