Can Women with IgA Nephropathy Get Pregnant

Having a healthy baby is all parents' wish. Some women with IgA Nephropathy afraid that the disease can inherit to their babies so they hesitate to have a baby. Experts point out that IgA is not a genetic disease so they patients can not worry about the mentioned problem. However, they should consider that IgA may cause damage to their fetus and may aggravate their disease.

According to some researches, if the patients with IgA Nephropathy do not have high blood pressure or renal dysfunction, they can have a healthy baby and also does not cause damage to mother's health. Therefore, the pregnant women should control their blood pressure within 140/90mmHg, serum level under 1.1mg/dl and creatinine clearance above 70ml/min. At the same time, pregnancy also can cause high blood pressure. However, if they can control their blood pressure within control, it will not cause threatening to the fetus.

However, the pregnant women also should watch out for the risk of pregnancy to themselves and the fetus. The pregnant women with IgA Nephropathy are more likely to have abortion, stillborn foetus, and low birth weight, slow growth of foetus, premature birth, and postpartum hemorrhage and so on.

In addition, the incidence of preeclampsia is higher among women with IgA Nephropathy. Preeclampsia is a serious complication occurring in the terminal stage of pregnancy. The diseas is characterized with suddenly increased high blood pressure, rapidly increase in body weight, edema, proteinuria, headache and decline in vision. Preeclampsia can do much harm to both foetus and mother.

The women with IgA Nephropathy should also know that pregnancy can aggravate the disease. Generally speaking, it is very possible for women with high blood pressure or renal damage to encounter risk during their pregnancy. In some cases, the pregnant women have healthy condition in the early time of pregnancy. However, their disease may aggravate very rapidly during the pregnancy or after birth.

Therefore, the women with IgA Nephropathy should consult their doctors carefully about their disease condition. If so, their doctors can predicate the potential risk so that the women can do their best to take preventive measures to decline their risk and guarantee the safety of mother and foetus.