Pregnant women in the late stages of pregnancy can determine whether their feet are swollen through symptoms and signs.
Pregnant women often have mild edema of the ankles and the lower part of the calves in the second half of pregnancy, which subsides after rest and is a normal phenomenon. This is mainly due to the significant increase in venous pressure in the lower limbs during pregnancy, coupled with the increasing uterine compression of the inferior vena cava, resulting in edema of the lower limbs, varicose veins and hemorrhoids, the incidence of increased.
Pregnant women often feel sore and swollen feet, especially after sitting for a long time, the symptoms will be more obvious.
Pressing the leg or the top of the foot with the finger, if it can be recovered immediately after pressing, consider that there may be no edema, if it cannot be recovered immediately after pressing, but a pit appears, consider that there is edema.
If the edema of the lower limbs of pregnant women is obvious and does not subside after rest, we should think of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, combined renal diseases or other comorbidities, and recommend timely consultation, identification of the cause of the disease and timely treatment.
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