What is postpartum depression

What is postpartum depression

May constitute the process of procreation (birth) exhilarating and memorable experience. The physical effort and psychological that accompanies childbirth, or Caesarean section, showing particularly in the early days after birth, and in addition to the feelings that accompany the birth itself, you may feel pain mother that her body is changing, that ideas are changing and that their mood, too, is changing, change reflected in tears, anxiety, excessive emotion and others.

These feelings variable unit, which go away, and 50% - 70% of births women feel in the period between the fourth day and the tenth day after birth. This is a natural phenomenon, and relatively easy to handle. There are other symptoms including: restlessness and discomfort, headaches, confusion, forgetfulness, excessive emotion, sleep disorder and negative thoughts about the new baby. Because the situation is temporary and transient, there is no need to cure, but to comfort and support from family and friends.

8% - 12% of women births gestational situation more difficult than just Chagrin and melancholy, a condition called postpartum depression, which is characterized by a drop in mood, apathy and indifference, lack of pleasure, disturbances in appetite and sleep, excessive emotion or slow, fatigue or lack of activity, lack of self-esteem or guilt, difficulty concentrating or making decisions. In the most severe cases may show other symptoms of postpartum depression.

The psychosis postpartum (Postpartum psychosis) is the most dangerous of this disorder, as appears fairly depressing

schizophrenia (schizophrenia - Schizophrenia) or disease psychosis manic depressive (Manic Depressive Psychosis) who knows, newly named "turbulence two-way" or " bipolar disorder "(Bipolar disorder).

When you see signs of suicidal thoughts or attempts to hurt the baby, it is very necessary to get immediate advice from a psychiatrist. You also need to this consultation, emergency, also, women who suffer from severe depression characterized by difficulty communicating with people, to maintain personal hygiene and child care. It is common to postpartum depression reappear after the next pregnancy (50% - 100% of the cases), and women who suffer from it may develop depression has nothing to do with birth (20% - 30%).

Women who have contracted, in the United States, acute HAV postpartum depression are young women, under the age of 20 years, is married and do not receive medical treatment on a regular basis, women from the families of women with 6 children or more, and who separated from their families at an early age did not receive support in adolescence. And these women fail to establish healthy relationships with their husbands, Mthaglat economic problems, dissatisfied with their education, and suffer from emotional disorders and lack of self-confidence

Symptoms of postpartum depression

Deteriorating mood, apathy and lack of intimacy, disturbances in appetite and sleep, a tendency to excess emotion, slowness, fatigue, lethargy, lack of self-esteem, guilt, difficulty concentrating or making decisions. And if it was a deep depression after giving

birth indicators may appear on suicidal thoughts. And show symptoms of postpartum depression during the first three months after birth, usually. This is similar to depression, its symptoms and its features, other cases of depression that have nothing to do with pregnancy and childbirth

Symptoms of postnatal depression more severe and difficult, include confusion, disorientation (Disorientation) and lose contact with reality, to the extent that women in this case has progressed to hurt herself or her child.

Treatment of postnatal depression

Pharmacological treatment for depression after birth can take place by different psychiatric drugs. Medicine and are selected according to their safety and, of course, to the need of the mother to breast-feeding. Generally, it is advisable to start with half the usual dose and then increased gradual. Should continue taking the drug for a period of 6 months to prevent depression again. But if the body does not respond to treatment within 6 months, it is advisable to go to a psychiatrist for a consultation.

All antidepressant medications transmitted with mother's milk, and this issue is one of the important factors that are taken into consideration when choosing a medication.

Medicine for Ustral (Lustral) is the recommended medicine during the nursing period.

The treatment of postpartum depression is up through psychiatry (Psychiatric) in the hospital may include treatment  Supply (treated with electric shocks - Electroconvulsive treatment), note that the prognosis is high and usually improves patient's condition within 2 - 3 months, but depression may appears again in the next pregnancy.