What are the dangers of maternal anemia?

Postpartum women are a special group. In daily life, many postpartum women will suffer from anemia after giving birth. There are also many postpartum women who ignore the anemia caused by heavy bleeding during childbirth and think it will get better after a while. This idea is wrong. Postpartum anemia will bring many harms to the body. So what are the harms of postpartum anemia? Let’s take a look at the detailed explanation below. I hope everyone understands this.

Mild anemia does not have much impact on pregnancy, but it usually causes symptoms such as dizziness and fatigue. Some women may also experience headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, vertigo, fatigue, palpitations, inattention, memory loss, poor appetite, and stomach discomfort.

2. Severe anemia can cause changes in the circulatory system of pregnant women, and the most serious impact on the mother is heart failure.

Newborns born to anemic mothers have low iron reserves in their bodies. Even if there are no obvious lesions at birth and their hemoglobin is within the normal range, they often develop anemia soon after birth due to insufficient iron reserves.

4. For the fetus, the direct consequence of anemia is that the oxygen-carrying capacity of the pregnant woman's blood cells is reduced, which leads to fetal intrauterine hypoxia, and then causes intrauterine fetal death, premature birth, and delivery of low-birth weight babies.

5. Due to the fetus's congenital iron deficiency, nutritional anemia occurs soon after birth. Anemia can also affect the development of fetal brain cells, causing the child to have poor learning ability in the future.

The above introduction is about the dangers of maternal anemia. I believe that after the above introduction, everyone has understood the dangers of maternal anemia. Moreover, the harm caused by anemia is not only personal, but also endangers the baby. In general, mothers need to pay special attention to their own nutritional status and replenish blood in time after anemia.