Heavy bleeding during pregnancy- Dr. Shalini Varma

Even if a lady is pregnant, there cud be episodes of bleeding ranging from mild, moderate to even severe. First and foremost you have to make sure that fetus is not miscarried only an ultrasound can make sure that a viable pregnancy is present or not. It could be a threatened abortion were the fetus is fine and growing but there are signs of miscarriage which can be treated especially, with bed rest and with injections and progesterone supplementation. There could be a situation where there is no miscarriage and the fetus is fine but there could be large clot near the fetus, which is called as the subchorionic hematoma. The treatment is again symptomatic again with rest, progesterone supplementation and serial follow up sonography. The only dangerous thing that we should think at this stage when a patient knows that she is pregnant and she is pregnant is an ectopic pregnancy, which I most likely otherwise called as the tubal pregnancy because the rupture of a tubal pregnancy and missing its diagnosis can even cost the life of the mother. Once diagnosed the treatment is very simple but it requires surgical or medical depending on the stage of gestation.