Contents:
- Medical Video: Here's What Your Baby Will Look Like
- The higher the minus eye, the higher the risk of loose retina
- Pregnant women who have minus eyes cannot give birth normally?
Medical Video: Here's What Your Baby Will Look Like
Approaching the last weeks of pregnancy, you will be faced with a choice of methods of giving birth later. For those of you who have a healthy pregnancy or are not at risk, you are strongly advised to give birth normally. But for pregnant women who have a minus eye, you should first discuss with your obstetrician about the choice of a safe delivery method. He said, pregnant women who have a minus eye should not give birth normally. What is the reason?
The higher the minus eye, the higher the risk of loose retina
The higher the minus eye, the higher the risk that the retina can be released from the eyeball. This condition is called the retinal detachment. Retinal detachment is the condition of detachment of the retina from the surrounding supporting tissue behind the eyeball. Retinal detachments can cause sudden blurred vision - maybe even sudden blindness. This condition includes a medical emergency.
Nearsightedness results from an eyeball that is too long or a curved cornea that is too steep. This results in light that should fall right on the retina to be in front of the retina of the eye. That is why people with minus eyes cannot see objects that are far away clearly.
Well, people who have severe nearsightedness (a minus score of 8 or even more) have a high risk of experiencing retinal detachments. This is caused by increasing the extension of the eyeball to the front which is increasingly depleting retinal peripherals by force.
Depletion of the retinal lining can cause the retina to tear so that the vitreous (fluid in the middle of the eyeball) will seep into the gap between the retina and the layer behind it. This liquid then accumulates and causes the entire retinal layer to detach from the base. The risk of retinal detachment in severe nearsightedness can be 15-200 times higher than people with normal vision.
There are various things that can cause tearing of the retina. Starting from inflammation, head injuries due to collisions, tumors, complications of diabetes, and preeclampsia. This condition is also caused by the thinness of the retina which makes it easy to tear. Usually as you get older, this part of the retina gets thinner or brittle.
Pregnant women who have minus eyes cannot give birth normally?
He said, pregnant women who have a minus eye should not give birth normally because of fear of causing blindness.This opinion arises after several studies have linked the risk of blindness to normal childbirth.
Chasing (signed) requires a lot of energy and can cause severe tension. This is believedcan increase pressure on the muscles of the abdomen, chest and eyes. This great pressure is feared to trigger the release of the retina of the eye.
However, the assumption that pregnant women who have a minus eye may not have normal childbirth has never been medically proven. There is not enough scientific evidence to prove that the strong pressure that occurs when you push can damage the retina of the eye.
A journal publication researchGraefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology notfound a problem in the retina of the eye that appears when pregnant women minus eyes give birth normally. This study was conducted by observing 10 women who experienced a decrease in certain visual impairments to those who did have a history of retinal detachments.
Pregnant women with minus eyes can still give birth normally, provided that the retinal condition is checked first. If the condition of the retina is not weak, then you can and is legitimate to give birth normally. However, if your retinal condition is already weak even though the minus is still low, the best solution that the doctor recommends is to have a caesarean delivery to ensure your health. Talk to your obstetrician further about this.
