Thank you! Your e-mail was sent. Save to my dashboard Sign in or Sign up to save this page. Saving Just a moment, please. You've saved this page It's been added to your dashboard. In This Topic. What is Rh factor? What is Rh disease? You have an amniocentesis also called amnio or chorionic villus sampling also called CVS.
These are prenatal tests that your health care provider may recommend during pregnancy. You have bleeding during pregnancy. You get hit in the belly during pregnancy. You have a miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy.
A miscarriage is when a baby dies in the womb before 20 weeks of pregnancy. An ectopic pregnancy is when a fertilized egg implants itself outside of the uterus womb and begins to grow. Your baby is at risk for Rh disease and needs to be checked closely. Who gets tested for Rh factor? You get a second antibody test at 28 weeks of pregnancy. Can Rh disease cause problems for your baby? Anemia Brain damage Heart failure Jaundice. Stillbirth is when a baby dies in the womb after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Death after birth. This often happens at birth when the placenta breaks away. This can occur during a miscarriage or fall. It may also happen during a prenatal test. These can include amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling. These tests use a needle to take a sample of tissue. They may cause bleeding. Your immune system responds by making antibodies to fight and destroy these foreign cells.
Your immune system stores these antibodies in case these foreign cells come back again. This can happen in a future pregnancy. You are now Rh sensitized. Most issues occur in future pregnancies with another Rh positive baby. During that pregnancy, your antibodies cross the placenta to fight the Rh positive cells in your baby's body.
As the antibodies destroy the cells, your baby gets sick. Your baby could have jaundice, heart failure, and enlarged organs.
Women who are Rh negative and are pregnant with a baby whose father is Rh positive are at risk for this condition. Symptoms can occur a bit differently in each pregnancy and child. During pregnancy, symptoms may include:. A yellow coloring of amniotic fluid. This color may be because of bilirubin. This is a substance that is released when blood cells break down. Your baby may have a big liver, spleen, or heart. There may also be extra fluid in his or her stomach, lungs, or scalp. These are signs of hydrops fetalis.
This condition causes severe swelling edema. There is a method of preventing the blood system from producing these antibodies in a woman not already Rh sensitized. This is another reason for testing your blood, to see if you are already sensitized, either due to a prior pregnancy that involved an Rh-positive fetus or due to having received Rh-positive blood through transfusion.
Sensitization to the Rh factor has no effect upon your health during a pregnancy; it will affect only the health of any future Rh-positive baby. Because blood tests show that you are not Rh sensitized, you will be given an injection, after the abortion, of a special protein product called Gamulin Rh Rh [D] immune globulin human which will block the formation of antibodies your body would otherwise produce.
This is a highly effective means of preventing Rh sensitization and is a simple method. Even though it is not always possible to determine the blood type of a fetus, it is important that Gamulin Rh be given when a pregnancy is aborted or miscarried. Gamulin Rh is used for the prevention of hemolytic disease, not as a cure.
Also, Gamulin Rh must be given after each pregnancy is terminated, either in abortion or full-term delivery.
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