Last week, I saw the physical changes after pregnancy summarized by the director of the garden, and found that many pregnant mothers were struggling with [getting ugly].
At the invitation of the director of the garden, I’d like to talk to you today about the following [ugly] problems that need not be worried too much-because they will gradually recover after giving birth to the baby, and basically do not need special treatment during pregnancy or after giving birth.
Various [blackening]
Most pregnant women turn black during pregnancy.
1. The skin turns black as a whole.
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.
Step 2: Local blackening
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.
3. Long line on belly
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.
4. Blackening elsewhere and red hands?
Palm erythema occurs in the thenar of the size of the palm. It can fade and turn white when pressed, and flush can be restored when released. It can continue to exist without pain or itch. At most, it feels that the palm is 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, people may think that pregnant women are really angry and want to fan people if they don’t agree with each other.
Palm erythema is also easy to mislead doctors. Most doctors who do not do dermatology think of liver cirrhosis as soon as they hear palm erythema. Because the liver cirrhosis decompensated period, the normal inactivation effect of estrogen by the liver is not enough, and palm erythema comes out as soon as estrogen is high, so palm 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.
All kinds of [long hair] and [shedding]
During pregnancy, affected by various hormones, most hair follicles are in the growth period, and hair and fine hair grow vigorously.
1. [hair] will fall off
Some pregnant women, whose entire belly is covered with thin fur, are very anxious to ask if laser hair removal can be done.
Not to mention that pregnancy is a contraindication to laser therapy, these hairs will gradually return to the level before pregnancy after delivery, including hair.
Therefore, no matter hirsutism during pregnancy or alopecia after delivery, what does not need special treatment.
After delivery, some head hair follicles will enter the resting period together, resulting in postpartum alopecia, which will recover naturally within about one year. If you are afraid of too many sewers blocked by postpartum alopecia, it is good to cut your hair short in the third trimester of pregnancy.
2. It has nothing to do with the sex of the fetus,
Some people will make an issue of whether their belly has long hair to guess the sex of the fetus.
There is really no basis for what. Hair growth is affected by many hormones. Androgen certainly stimulates its growth. Prolactin, another hormone that increases during pregnancy, can also stimulate hair growth. According to what, it must be the result of androgen birth.
In addition, even if the hirsutism during pregnancy is caused by the increase of androgen, it is difficult to say from whom the androgen comes.
Some pregnant women have some tumors that can produce androgen, such as luteal tumor, luteal cyst, or polycystic ovary syndrome.
Under these circumstances, the mother itself produces too much androgen, and this androgen will also affect the fetus: if it happens to be pregnant with a female fetus, it can be affected by the mother’s high androgen, resulting in masculinity and giving birth like a [female man].
Of course, the sex of the fetus is determined by the chromosome. Short-term hormone effects will not change the sex of the child. Even if the female fetus is masculine, it can naturally return to normal after birth without the influence of the maternal hormone.
Finally, I would like to mention that some pregnant mothers are troubled by the problem of [acne], which is worth spending a whole article on, and please look forward to the following.