Duphaston is often prescribed in the first and sometimes the second trimester of pregnancy to prevent miscarriage Miscarriage - is more common than you think . Clinical experience shows that this is indeed a very effective tool that will significantly reduce the rate of miscarriage.

Features hormonal levels during pregnancy

Hormonal support pregnancy, especially during the first trimester (the first twelve weeks) is characterized by a large number of secretion of progesterone by the ovaries. In order to stimulate the secretion of progesterone, the shell of the embryo begins to develop even a special pregnancy hormone - human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).

Progesterone is necessary for an organism of women during the whole period of pregnancy. But especially need this hormone in the first weeks of pregnancy, when the fetus is not yet appreciated in the uterine wall, because it inhibits uterine contractions, ie, prevents miscarriage. This is a natural physiological defensive reaction, which, however, gives rise to a number of negative symptoms, as the vast physical activity throughout the smooth muscles of the pelvis and abdomen. That's why pregnant women are beginning to disturb chronic constipation (reduction in motor activity of muscles of the intestine), which is the result of hemorrhoids. Another consequence - violation of urination, stagnation of urine in the urinary tract and pyelonephritis pregnant.

Yet nature is set so that, without progesterone or its content insufficient continuation of the pregnancy is not possible.

How does djufaston during pregnancy

Djufaston - a synthetic analogue of the female sex hormone progesterone (such drugs called progestins and progestins). He has the body of a pregnant woman is exactly the same effect as natural progesterone. However, this drug is more convenient to use, since the discharged tablets. Before the advent of drugs in this group of pregnant women had to prescribe progesterone, which is produced only in the form of an oily solution for intramuscular injection (very painful).

Djufaston as well as progesterone inhibits the contraction of the muscles of the uterus and prevents miscarriage. It operates smoothly and side effects during pregnancy has little, and has no adverse effects on the fetus. It does not cause it, and male pattern changes in the mother and the female fetus, since produce djufaston Djufaston: Assistant desperate   not because of male sex hormones, like most progestogens. Therefore, it is widely used for the prevention of miscarriage. The reason for the appointment duphaston is threatened and habitual miscarriage.

How to take djufaston during pregnancy

Like any other drug djufaston pregnant woman may appoint a doctor. Usually, the dose is adjusted individually, focusing on the status of women, and in accordance with the identified violations of the hormonal levels.

When threatened abortion encouraged to initially 40 mg (four tablets) duphaston and then 10 mg (one tablet) every eight hours. This dosage is stored for seven days, even if all the signs of threatened abortion disappeared, and then gradually move on to maintenance dose. If the threat of miscarriage The threat of miscarriage - how to prevent spontaneous abortion   It arises again, returning to the previous shock dosage.

When habitual miscarriage djufaston prescribed before pregnancy (it does not suppress ovulation - out egg from the ovary) for the 10 mg twice daily from the eleventh to the twenty-fifth day of the menstrual cycle. Reception continues after the start of her pregnancy until about the middle of the (twentieth week), and then reduced, and even canceled.

Side effects and contraindications

Side effects duphaston during pregnancy is the suppression of their motor activity of smooth muscles of intestines and urinary tract, resulting in constipation (and possibly to hemorrhoids) and the stagnation of urine (ie, pregnant women may develop pyelonephritis). But this is not a contraindication to administration of the drug, because that's what works, and natural progesterone, which is produced in a woman's body.

There may also be side effects like headaches, but they are rarely severe and are not a cause for discontinuation.

But if during pregnancy there are signs of violations of the liver (right upper quadrant pain, jaundice), the drug overturned. He also is contraindicated in the case of a woman in the previous pregnancy had jaundice. It does not take Duphaston if you are hypersensitive to the components of this drug.

Galina Romanenko

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