A 38-year-old pregnant woman died of sudden epilepsy. Are you also a high-risk group of "pre-epilepsy"? Older women are at high risk of preeclampsia. At 32 weeks of pregnancy, a 38-year-old pregnant woman suddenly developed blurred vision, generalized epilepsy and convulsions, and the fetus was deprived of oxygen, putting both the mother and the baby at risk. Fortunately, after the doctor's emergency caesarean section, the mother and son were safe. Recently, a 38-year-old pregnant woman in Hsinchu was pregnant for 32 weeks. Suddenly, her vision became blurred and she had many generalized seizures. Her family was shocked to find that something was wrong and rushed her to the emergency department. The doctor diagnosed her as "pre-epilepsy" and the fetus in the abdomen was seriously deprived of oxygen. In case of emergency, the pregnancy must be terminated immediately. During delivery, the mother was in a coma, and the baby was born prematurely, weighing only 1.660 g. Both the mother and the baby are in the intensive care unit, and now they are both safe.

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Preeclampsia is the three leading causes of maternal death. When the artist Da s 39 gave birth to a second child, it was reported that she had a seizure, coma and instant hypoxia during delivery, and was rescued twice. Beyonce, the American music queen, was giving birth when one of the twins stopped beating many times and had an emergency caesarean section.

Dr. Chen Wenbin from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Dongyuan General Hospital pointed out that many women suddenly have epileptic symptoms during pregnancy or childbirth, commonly known as "pre-eclampsia", "eclampsia" or "toxemia of pregnancy". Preeclampsia is the most worrying pregnancy complication for obstetricians and gynecologists, which mostly occurs after 20 weeks.

The main symptom is hypertension, systolic blood pressure ≧1.40 mmhg; Or diastolic blood pressure ≧90mmHg, other symptoms such as proteinuria, urinary protein content of more than 2+ or accumulated more than 5g within 24 hours, systemic edema, inability to rebound when the skin is pressed, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, excessive weight gain, etc.

Seizures in pregnant women are very dangerous. In severe cases, it may lead to the interruption of maternal breathing, and then the fetal brain is damaged by hypoxia, especially the "early epilepsy" that appeared before 34 weeks of pregnancy. In severe cases, it may endanger the lives of pregnant women and fetuses. If the circulatory system of pregnant women is greatly affected, complications will include renal failure, liver failure, pulmonary edema, generalized spasm and other epileptic symptoms. If the fetus is less than 30 weeks old, the mortality rate is high, and the causes of death are mostly premature delivery and placental dysfunction, which leads to placental detachment.

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Who are the high-risk groups for epilepsy? . Older women over 35 years old

I have hypertension, diabetes and kidney disease.

Fetal edema

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Pregnancy-induced hypertension has also occurred in the past.

Suffer from autoimmune diseases

The etiology of preeclampsia is related to maternal immune response and placental dysfunction caused by fetus. If the vasodilation of preeclampsia patients is not good, it may not be noticed when the fetus is very small in the early pregnancy. However, with the increase of the fetus, if the blood vessel diameter is 1 times, the blood flow is 16 times, which will affect the growth of the fetus. At this time, maternal blood pressure will continue to increase to increase supply, and vascular resistance will continue to increase and form.