Pre-Pregnancy Consultation
Pre-Pregnancy Consultation. Attention pregestational aims to identify and act on the risks of pregnancy before it occurs, promoting the health of women and their offspring. It is addressed to the couple before the pregnancy. Consultation is a pre-pregnancy in which a medical history to the detection of a hereditary type of disease to advise the couple about the potential risks.
Pre-Pregnancy CONSULTATION
During Preconception care should be done to prevent various infections:
1. HIV / AIDS screening and advice women of childbearing age or high risk.
2. Hepatitis B vaccination and advice women of risk.
3. Rubella vaccination to women before pregnancy
4. Toxoplasmosis, explaining the care taken with meat, cats and their feces.
5. Tetanus, we recommend the vaccination.
6. Other infections such as dental.
Genetic counseling should be done well, control of chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes, anemia, drugs …), (discouraging teratogenic drugs), education (recommending healthy lifestyles as balanced nutrition, eliminating snuff, alcohol and coffee in excess.
Pre-Pregnancy RECOMMENDATIONS
Practices which are recognized as effective are prophylaxis of neural tube defects (NTD) with folinate.
Dosage
* Women at high risk (history of pregnancy with NTD) wishing to become pregnant: 4 mg / day of folic acid, 1 to 3 months before conception and during the first 3 months of pregnancy
* Women with low risk (no history of pregnancy with NTD) wishing to become pregnant: 0.4 to 0.8 mg of folic acid, 1 to 3 months before conception and during the first 3 months of pregnancy
* Women of childbearing age with the possibility of unplanned pregnancy: 0.4 mg of folic acid daily
* Women who may become pregnant or plan to, as an alternative to the ingestion of folic acid supplements: increasing the daily consumption of folinate to 0.4 mg / day
We recommend the administration of folic acid in the form of plain, and not as part of multivitamin preparations. Supplement with folinic acid and calcium folinate offers no advantage over folic acid, except in women who are treated with anti-folinates like metrotexate or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and when the mouth is impossible.
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hi, it has been since 3 months i have married, i want to be pregant fast, but each month there is delay in periods, but when i test it is negative, though i have taken folic acid tablets for one month do u want me to continue the same, or to change anything else, please suggest me,
help needed urgent.