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Monitoring during pregnancy helps prevent serious exacerbations of asthma.
2004 SEP 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to asthma specialists, "The course of asthma during pregnancy is variable. When the total pregnant asthmatic population is considered, one-third improve, one-third are unchanged, and one-third experience increased symptoms.
"The course of asthma may be influenced by the many physiologic changes during pregnancy as well as the severity of the pre-existing asthma."
In a review of the course of asthma during pregnancy, L.C. Gluck and colleagues at the Florida Center for Allergy and Asthma, Miami, wrote, "Prospective studies have found that severe asthmatics have exacerbations during pregnancy more often than mild asthmatics. The first trimester and the last month of pregnancy are relatively free of exacerbations. The second and third trimesters have more potential for increased asthma
symptoms and the need for medications.
"Change in allergic nasal symptoms may precede similar changes in asthma during pregnancy," the authors said. "The course of asthma during labor and delivery is worsened in only 10% of patients, and their problems are usually mild. Postpartum most women return to their prepregnant state within 3 months."
Pulmonary function is adversely affected by the physiologic changes that occur in pregnancy; a decrease in functional residual capacity (FRC) occurs along with a 50% increase in minute ventilation," ...
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