Born 6 babies earlier in Taiwan but Nguyen Ngoc Anh and her husband still wanted to welcome another baby this year.The decision to give birth to the 7th baby in Vietnam, Ms. Anh chose to visit the Hanoi French Hospital from 33 weeks and was closely monitored by obstetricians to ensure safety.

However, 3 weeks later she showed signs of headache, insomnia, and painkillers ineffective.At 36 weeks 1 day, Ms. Anh appeared the condition of her legs, high blood pressure 159/95 mmHg, severe headache, slight convulsions, blurred eyes.Immediately, the obstetable doctors were admitted to the hospital, conducted a combination of cardiologists and treated the pre -eclampsia regimen to avoid the risk of more severe seizures, affecting nerves, easily leading to.Cerebral vascular stroke, can be dangerous to the lives of both mother and daughter.

Closely monitoring during the process, realizing that the patient's headache is not improved, the blood pressure is unstable, the doctors conducted the consultation and transferred emergency surgery on the day.In just a short time, the surgery was successful, the mother was round and square.After 2 days of postpartum monitoring, blood pressure and other signs of the mother have returned to normal, the baby's health is stable, sucking and lying happily, fully in the arms of the mother.

Doctor Cao Thi Thuy Ha, a doctor directly closely followed the treatment and emergency surgery for patients, said: "This is a serious pre -eclampsia with many risk factors including: quite older patients, who have experienced many giving births first, have a history of gestational diabetes, obesity.

In addition, at the 6th baby's birth, the patient had postpartum haemorrhage, had to transfuse 3 days later.Considering the full history and actual condition during the patient's hospitalization, we have carried out parallel to the uterine artery during the caesarean section and combining contraction medications to prevent haemorrhage., avoid leaving the risk, ensuring the safest for both mother and baby. "

The emergency surgery was successful, so the mother and the baby were healthy and was discharged according to the normal route.

Pre -eclampsia - dangerous obstetric complications

According to Dr. Thuy Ha, pre -eclampsia is a pregnancy complication, characterized by high blood pressure and vulnerable to other organs, usually liver and kidney.This phenomenon can occur early after the 20th week of pregnancy, but rarely encounter this case.Most of the symptoms appear after the 32nd week of pregnancy (about the last 3 months of pregnancy).

Pre -eclampsia causes a risk of slow growth in the fetus, causing the baby to produce light weight and malnutrition, causing cardiovascular and kidney complications for pregnant women.In severe cases, it may affect the lives of both pregnant women and babies.

The first sign of pre -eclampsia is usually pregnant hypertension.Therefore, pregnant women need to be monitored blood pressure from the first days of pregnancy and regularly check blood pressure during pregnancy.Blood pressure exceeds 140/90 mmHg - recorded in twice, at least 4 hours apart - is considered abnormal.

In addition, other manifestations include:

- Excess protein in urine.

- Severe headache.

- Change in vision, including temporary vision loss, blurred vision or light sensitivity.

- Upper abdominal pain, usually on the right side of the ribs.

- Nausea and vomiting.

- The amount of urine decreases.

- Shortness of breath.

- Sudden weight gain (more than 2kg/week).

- Swelling (edema) - Especially on the face and arms and legs.

In some pregnant mothers, sometimes the signs of silent and difficult to recognize.

Doctor Thuy Ha also noted that with mothers who have many times can increase the risk of gestational diabetes, pre -eclampsia and the risk of postpartum haemorrhage.Therefore, pregnant women should have regular examination with obstetricians to be able to screen and offer the most effective treatment roadmap.