There may be some changes in the body after pregnancy, which leads many pregnant mothers to struggle with the problem of ugly pregnancy.
In fact, many problems will gradually recover after giving birth to babies, and basically do not need special treatment during pregnancy or after giving birth.
Today, please ask Mr. Chen Yulan to tell you about the following [blackening] problems that need not be worried too much.
The skin turns black as a whole.
Most pregnant women turn black during pregnancy.
This may be related to the increase of melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH), estrogen and progesterone: MSH needless to say, literally you know what it is. In addition, estrogen can also stimulate melanocytes to secrete melanin, while progesterone can promote melanin diffusion.
Therefore, most pregnant women are darker than when they are not pregnant.
After delivery, most pigmentation can subside as hormone levels gradually return to normal.
Blackening of specific parts
In addition to the overall blackening of skin color, many people will complain that their nipples, areola, belly center and navel are terribly black.
In fact, there is also a place that pregnant women can hardly see-vulva, which has become darker.
This is because melanocytes in these parts are already relatively dense, and when affected by hormone changes, these parts will also change more obviously.
Similarly, after delivery, most pigmentation can subside as hormone levels gradually return to normal.
Long line on stomach
Some people will have a black line in their belly line, while others will not.
Generally speaking, pigmentation during pregnancy is less obvious for whiter skin color, and it is not easy to appear abdominal black lines. However, this is not absolute. For example, I have had black lines on my abdomen when I was pregnant twice, and the first child did not have black lines on my abdomen when I was pregnant, while the second child did not. The children are all very healthy children, so it doesn’t matter.
After delivery, the black line in the abdomen will also be obviously relieved, but it may not disappear completely.
If after lactation, there are still black lines left and you feel troubled, you can go to the dermatology department to consult if it is suitable to do some freckle removal treatment.
Red hands
The phenomenon of hand redness is called palm erythema, which can fade and turn white when pressed, and restore flushing when released. It can continue to exist without pain or itch, and at most it feels a little swollen from time to time.
These subtle changes are hard to resonate with the people around you. If you stretch out your palm for people to see, people may think: You are pregnant, eat more nutritious, and your palm is ruddy, shouldn’t you?
If you say that your palm is not in a panic, others may think that pregnant women are really angry and want to fan people if they don’t agree with each other.
Palmar erythema is also easy to mislead doctors. Most doctors who do not work in dermatology think of liver cirrhosis when they hear palmar erythema.
Because of the decompensation period of liver cirrhosis, the normal inactivation effect of the liver on estrogen is not enough. As soon as estrogen is high, palmar erythema comes out, so palmar erythema is also called [liver palm].
During pregnancy, estrogen and progesterone are elevated, and estrogen can also stimulate arteries at this time, making pregnant women appear palm erythema. As long as the prenatal examination does not find abnormal liver function, it does not need treatment. After delivery, hormone levels gradually fall back to normal, palm erythema will disappear.