Women who suffer from asthma may suffer a worsening of their disease during pregnancy because the physiological changes that occur cause the body to increase respiratory work and oxygen consumption.
Specialists believe that the female gender of the pregnant baby could lead to greater complications of asthma compared to the pregnancy of a male baby. Asthmatic pregnant women who expect a child have 10% less symptoms than those who expect girls. Apparently, fetal testosterone would act as a disease modulator.
Therefore, the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) has decided to deepen the issue and will conduct a study to determine if indeed being pregnant with a child is more bearable for women with asthma.
Many women tend to abandon the treatment because they fear that it could harm the baby, however, specialists recommend not doing so because the risk of the baby suffering from some effect of the drugs against the damage that the adverse effects of the disease like oxygen deficiency in the mother's blood.
40% of asthmatics have an exacerbation of the disease during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum. That is why SEPAR has set out to investigate how asthma evolves in pregnancy, what differences occur between the pregnancies of girls and boys and the influence of the baby's sex on the disease. We will be attentive to the results.
