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Warning signs for potential complications during pregnancy
Warning Signs For Potential Complications During Pregnancy
Most women only experience the normal discomforts that take place during pregnancy. However, sometimes there can be complications that need immediate medical attention.
If you experience any of the symptoms listed below, contact your health care provider immediately, or go to the hospital or emergency room.
- Vaginal bleeding
- Vaginal discharge that is different
- Severe, persistent, frequent headaches
- Pain or burning with urination, or decrease in urination
- Persistent nausea or vomiting
- Leakage of fluid from the vagina
- Sharp pelvic pain or severe cramping
- Frequent dizzy spells or fainting
- Visual disturbances such as blurred vision, white lights or flashes, dots in front of the eyes
- Sudden swelling in hands, feet, and face
- Falling or hitting your abdomen
- Noticeable decrease or absence of fetal movement
- High fever with chills, over 100.4º Fahrenheit orally
- Contractions more often than four an hour if you are less than 37 weeks
- Low back pain that comes and goes but never goes away
- Any other problem that feels unusual
Review Date: June 29, 2001
Reviewed By: Peter Chen, M.D., Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare
Network.
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