What are the dangers of high blood pressure during pregnancy?

Pregnant women will experience a lot of discomfort during pregnancy, and their health will also face many threats and troubles. For example, high blood pressure cannot be ignored. Some pregnant women have high blood pressure before pregnancy, so they need to be more vigilant at this time. Even if the high blood pressure is caused after pregnancy, the problem is very serious. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the dangers of high blood pressure during pregnancy in time.

Pregnancy-induced hypertension is very harmful and can cause multiple organ damage such as convulsions, coma, heart failure, and in severe cases even threaten the lives of mother and child, and may also cause sequelae.

Harm to the brain: Pregnancy-induced hypertension can cause spasm of small arteries in the brain, leading to ischemia, hypoxia, and edema of brain tissue, loss of self-regulation function of cerebral blood vessels, and cause punctate or localized macular hemorrhages. Patients may experience headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, and may even fall into a coma.

Heart harm: Pregnancy-induced hypertension can cause coronary artery spasm, leading to myocardial ischemia, interstitial edema, punctate hemorrhage and necrosis, increased cardiac burden, and in severe cases can lead to heart failure.

Kidney harm: Pregnancy-induced hypertension can cause renal arteriosclerosis, tubular stenosis, blood flow blockage, renal ischemia, and thus renal function damage, which can cause oliguria and proteinuria, and in severe cases, renal failure.

Harm to the liver: Severe gestational hypertension can cause spasm of the small arteries in the liver and then dilation and relaxation, sudden congestion in the blood vessels, a sudden increase in pressure, localized bleeding around the portal vein of the liver, and varying degrees of necrosis of liver cells due to ischemia and hypoxia.

Harm to the placenta: Pregnancy-induced hypertension can cause uterine vasospasm, vascular wall necrosis, and lumen stenosis, affecting the maternal blood supply to the fetus, damaging placental function, leading to intrauterine growth retardation of the fetus, and in severe cases, placental abruption, leading to stillbirth, stillbirth, or neonatal death.

Eye damage: Pregnancy-induced hypertension can cause spasm and ischemia of retinal arterioles in the fundus. In severe cases, retinal edema, retinal detachment, or cotton-like exudate or bleeding may occur. Patients may experience dizziness and blurred vision, and in severe cases, temporary blindness may occur.

I believe everyone is clear about the dangers of high blood pressure during pregnancy. What pregnant women need to do is to always pay attention to the development and growth of the fetus without any negligence. They should also pay more attention to their diet. Don't eat too light or too spicy. While eating a light diet, they should also adjust their diet structure reasonably.