For women, pregnancy is a very happy thing, but sometimes there are cases of ectopic pregnancy. Do you know what are the early symptoms of ectopic pregnancy? How long can ectopic pregnancy be found out?
What does ectopic pregnancy mean
During normal pregnancy, after sperm and egg combine to become fertilized eggs, they will be implanted in the uterine cavity, that is, intrauterine pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancy refers to the implantation and development of the fertilized egg outside the uterine cavity.
The fertilized egg must be implanted in the inner wall of the uterus, which is the beginning of pregnancy
In addition, in the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy, it is often associated with 'ectopic pregnancy', with slightly different meanings. Ectopic pregnancy refers to all pregnancies that occur outside the uterus, while ectopic pregnancy refers to pregnancies in which the pregnant egg is located outside the normal implantation site, including cervical pregnancy, pregnancy between the uterine muscle walls, pregnancy in the uterine horn, etc., so the meaning of ectopic pregnancy is broader and more scientific Accepted by the world.
Early symptoms of ectopic pregnancy
1. Suspension of menstruation. In the early stage of ectopic pregnancy, menopause also occurs, which is easily confused with the common early pregnancy symptoms. But in fact, sometimes one side of the ectopic pregnancy will have abdominal distention and pain, and sometimes the examination will find that the fallopian tube is normal and swollen.
2. Abdominal pain. The abdominal pain caused by ectopic pregnancy is the pain of lower abdomen falling, accompanied by the feeling of defecation. Severe pain accompanied by cold sweat dripping. If rupture occurs, the patient will suddenly feel tear like pain in one side of the lower abdomen, accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
3. Vaginal bleeding. How to distinguish the vaginal bleeding in the early stage of ectopic pregnancy from normal menstruation? The vaginal bleeding in the early stage of ectopic pregnancy is dark brown, with less amount, generally not more than menstrual amount, but not clean.
4. Shock and fainting. Because ectopic pregnancy is an acute abdominal disease, many patients may cause blood volume reduction or severe abdominal pain due to acute intra-abdominal bleeding, fainting in the light, shock in the heavy and life-threatening.
How long can ectopic pregnancy be detected
Generally speaking, ectopic pregnancy can also lead to menopause. At this time, early pregnancy test paper can also be used. Generally speaking, if a woman's menstrual cycle is normal, when her menstruation has not been delayed for a week, she can have a urine test to determine whether she is pregnant. Then B-ultrasonic examination can be carried out to determine whether ectopic pregnancy or not. Generally about 40 days of pregnancy can find out the fetal sac, on the hospital blood HCG and vagina 4-D color ultrasound. If the blood HCG test shows pregnancy, but the four-dimensional ultrasound does not find normal implantation in the uterine cavity, it is an ectopic pregnancy.
How to prevent ectopic pregnancy?
Through a large number of research experiments, it has been proved that the probability of ectopic pregnancy of women who smoke or drink alcohol is up to 4 times of that of ordinary people. Because nicotine contained in tobacco and alcohol contained in wine will affect the movement of oviduct cilia, thus inducing ectopic pregnancy.
In addition, a large number of women's smoking and drinking will lead to more physical diseases, and will also affect pregnancy in the future, so for the sake of the health of female friends, we should avoid smoking and drinking.