Pregnancy and HIV: there is always a way out!
Today, many believe that the diagnosis of " HIV " is a verdict, and a woman with such a disease should not give birth in any case In this case, you can't. But the fact that healthy children are born to HIV-infected mothers convinces us otherwise.
HIV infection is not a medical indication for termination of pregnancy. Give birth or terminate a pregnancy-the solution, which is reserved for the woman herself. However, this issue must be approached with full responsibility!
It is necessary to undergo a thorough examination, in which the doctor will tell you whether there are indications for termination of pregnancy or not.
All HIV-infected people should know that a woman with a positive HIV status can give birth to a healthy child. HIV is not a reason to refuse to start a family and plan a pregnancy.
If a woman receives regular therapy during pregnancy, the risk of infection of the child is reduced to 2 %. If a woman if nothing is done, the probability of transmission of HIV from the mother to the child will be 13-50 %.
A woman can reduce the risk of infecting a child by following a healthy lifestyle, being observed in a women's clinic and in the At the AIDS Center, regularly taking chemoprophylaxis.
In any woman during pregnancy, the immune function of the body is suppressed. In HIV-infected women, immunity is already reduced, so there is a danger that pregnancy in this case can accelerate the development of the infection itself. Therefore, a woman in the position of an individual scheme is prescribed chemoprophylaxis. Unfortunately, reduce the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child to zero-not possible. Therefore, the most important thing in the desire to become a mother is to take all measures for the birth of a healthy child.
Birth through the natural birth canal, compared to cesarean section, does not carry a risk. Therefore, if the mother has a low viral load and all precautions have been taken for the birth of a new person, then prescribed natural childbirth. In any case, each decision is made according to each specific obstetric situation. Breast-feeding is considered one of the most common ways of transmitting HIV from mother to child, so it is important for an HIV-infected mother to completely exclude breastfeeding her child! The baby must be transferred to artificial mixtures.
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