Dr. Ambika V | Appointment Booking No.08088970970|Consultant Obstretician &Gynecologist Jayashree Multi-Speciality Hospital Vishwapriya Nagar, Bangalore
Autoimmune diseases like SLE has become more these days. These are conditions where abnormal antibodies are there in the body and in pregnancy it cases abnormal problems to the growing fetus. SLE usually presents with recurrent miscarriages, recurrent abortions in the first trimester, growth restriction to the baby where we see fetal growth restriction and unexplained IUD’s. How are these managed. Don’t’ worry. When the investigations are done and if it comes positive the APA profile and the ANA profile, along with the immunologists advice, you would be started on heparins, which are all the treatments that has come to treat these antibodies affected pregnancy. Low molecular weigh heparins and heparins will be started during pregnancy as soon as the pregnancy is confirmed and this treatment goes on during pregnancy and during delivery also. These ensure that the growth of the baby is normal and miscarriages or other growth abnormalities don’t happen. So series of ultrasounds will be required and monitoring will be required during pregnancy but again it does not means that with an Autoimmune diseases you should not conceive or get scared about pregnancy. Yes recurrent miscarriage is very difficult to take but treatment is definitely possible. A person with an Autoimmune diseases either SLE or other things can conceive and have a safe delivery with the modern techniques available.

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