What are the sequelae of spinal anesthesia for cesarean section?

Caesarean section is a modern delivery technology that has solved the painful problems of many women and greatly reduced the rate of difficult labor and mortality among pregnant women. It can be said to be a medical method with great contribution. However, since cesarean section is a surgical operation, anesthesia will be used, and anesthesia is bound to have certain side effects on the body, and pregnant women are no exception. Let’s take a look at the sequelae of spinal anesthesia for cesarean section.

Cesarean section is very popular in modern society, but people don’t know that it can leave women with very serious sequelae.

During the delivery process, mothers who give birth by caesarean section will have more trouble than mothers who give birth naturally, and there will definitely be an anesthesia process. Anesthesia has both good and bad effects on mothers. The good thing is that it can reduce the pain during childbirth, but the bad thing is the impact of anesthesia sequelae.

Before delivery, the doctor will recommend a delivery method based on the mother's physical condition. If a natural birth is recommended, the mother should not blindly choose a cesarean section, because the impact of anesthesia during a cesarean section is really significant. For mothers who choose cesarean section, if the anesthesiologist uses spinal anesthesia for painless delivery, the spinal cord will inevitably be affected in terms of sequelae.

Although spinal anesthesia for painless delivery is a highly safe and effective analgesic method of anesthesia. At the same time, the mother does not feel any pain during childbirth, but after anesthesia, the pain may not be more comfortable than a normal birth. Especially for spinal anesthesia, the spine will definitely be very painful after anesthesia.

Since cesarean section uses spinal anesthesia, including spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia and combined spinal-epidural anesthesia, when the baby is taken out of the uterus and the anesthesia is removed, the mother's waist will still be rigid and protruding like when she was pregnant. In addition, during pregnancy, due to carrying a heavy belly for a long time, the spine will bend significantly, which will cause severe protrusion of the lumbar spine. It’s not a good feeling for mothers to be attacked by both after giving birth!

From the perspective of Western medicine, there is a central nervous system in the spine that manages all the sensory nerves in the body. During caesarean sections, anesthesia is injected into the spine because the spine connects to the brain at the top, the limbs at the bottom, and controls the internal organs in the middle. If the spine is deformed it will affect many physiological functions. It can be seen that the sequelae of spinal anesthesia during caesarean sections have a significant impact!