After the woman successfully transferred the conception and found out that she will soon become a mother, her body, such an acquaintance, begins to change cardinally and rapidly, directing all efforts to maintain a new life. The most significant process that changes the entire hormonal background, and thanks to which the mothers become extremely irritable and sensitive, is the increased secretion and accumulation of the hormone progesterone. He becomes a kind of guardian of gestation and provocateur of the appearance of abundant, viscous, yellow discharge during pregnancy.
Is this a dangerous phenomenon?
In the period of gestation, any pathological or unusual state of the body can become a signal for an emergency visit to a gynecologist or other doctor. Allocations during pregnancy in yellow color are one of such alarming bells that warns about the possible development of an infectious disease or about the present inflammation, which was the result of the same time of not detected and untreated infection.
What can yellow mucus discharge indicate during pregnancy?
If this phenomenon is provoked by an infection, the woman, in addition to unpleasant vaginal discharge, will feel an itch or burning sensation in the area of the genital area. The cause of dark yellow discharge during pregnancy may well be staphylococci, gonococcus or E. coli. In this case, mucus is pus, so it has a specific and unpleasant smell.
It is worth noting that dirty yellow discharge during pregnancy can indicate the presence in the female body of such a serious disease as gonorrhea . This diagnosis is accompanied by pain during urination, burning and itching of the genitals, an unpleasant odor, a change in the viscosity of the vaginal mucus and other unpleasant symptoms. Yellow-green discharge during pregnancy, especially if they are pemphigus, equally can signal both gonorrhea and trichomoniasis.
Also, do not ignore the bright yellow discharge in pregnant women, which can be the result of a flowing inflammatory process in the ovaries or fallopian tubes, and also indicate the presence of a bacterial infection in the vagina.
Why do liquid yellow discharge appear during pregnancy?
It is not at all necessary that the above diseases were acquired during the period of gestation. It is possible that the infection for a long time did not let know about its presence or was brought in at the slightest deviation from hygienic norms. It happens that a woman for a long time was a carrier of a disease that revealed its "charms" only when the body sent its forces to another channel. That's why physicians constantly advocate careful planning of pregnancy, which involves a comprehensive examination and treatment of the entire body.
Ignore, as well as panic if you find a light yellow discharge during pregnancy, is not worth it. It is necessary to address this problem to your supervising obstetrician immediately, which specifies the cause of its appearance and the method of elimination.
Separate attention deserves yellow-pink discharge during pregnancy, which can be the result of detachment of the placental organ or leakage of amniotic fluid . A sharp signal of treatment in the women's polyclinic will be the appearance during pregnancy of yellow-brown secretions, which signal the presence of hematomas and clots of coagulated blood.