Does threatened abortion have any effect on the fetus?

Many pregnant women will experience some bleeding after pregnancy. In fact, most of them are normal, also known as threatened abortion. At this time, the body is relatively weak, so it is necessary to protect the fetus. So does it have any impact on the fetus?

In fact, pregnancy-preserving drugs have little effect on the fetus. Because it is a smooth muscle relaxant, the use of tocolytic drugs may cause side effects such as accelerated heartbeat and difficulty breathing. It may also lower a person's blood pressure. If the reaction is severe, it may also cause pulmonary edema or myocardial failure. However, the chance of these side effects is very low, and most of the time, the use of injectable tocolytic drugs is more likely to cause problems.

Therefore, there should not be too much concern about using tocolytics for pregnant women who show signs of miscarriage or premature birth. However, it is a medicine after all, and the doctor will decide whether to use tocolytic drugs based on the possible causes of miscarriage or premature birth of the pregnant woman.

If the pregnancy-preserving drug affects the fetus, should we give up the pregnancy-preserving drug?

Some expectant mothers, after discovering threatened miscarriage, give up on preserving the fetus for fear that medication will affect the quality of the fetus. This is unscientific. Pregnant women who find signs of threatened miscarriage should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible instead of choosing miscarriage-preserving drugs at will. Because there are many causes of threatened abortion and the treatment methods vary from person to person, if you fail to choose the right medication to preserve the pregnancy based on the cause, it will be very dangerous to the fetus.

Adverse effects of misuse of pregnancy-preserving drugs on the fetus

Blindly preserving the fetus is not advisable. In a few cases, the abuse of the pregnancy-preserving drug progesterone may cause masculinization of female fetuses and reproductive organ malformations in male fetuses. In most cases, not only can the fetus not be saved, but it increases the difficulty for doctors to perform operations and increases the risk of pelvic infection and uterine bleeding in women who have miscarriages. Therefore, you should follow the doctor's instructions and comprehensively consider whether to preserve the fetus so that you can get the correct treatment in time.

Therefore, it is important to prescribe the right medicine to protect the fetus. For example, late threatened abortion (pregnancy more than 3 months but less than 28 weeks) is mostly caused by relaxation of the internal cervical os. If you want to preserve the fetus, in addition to using tocolytic drugs, you should also use drugs that inhibit uterine contractions and other means of auxiliary treatment.