It you are an asthma patient, and are awaiting pregnancy, you need not worry about the links between the two. Relax, and cherish the feeling of would-be-motherhood.
A new study has come to provide that extra relaxation for you. It says that adverse obstetric or pediatric complications are generally not increased in women with asthma.
Though, previous studies have linked asthma in women with the possibility of increased pregnancy complication-risks, those have been found with various statistical shortcomings.
The authors of the study said,
Our results provide reassuring evidence that the risks of most adverse pregnancy outcomes and obstetric complications are similar to those in women without asthma.
With the possible exception of increased vigilance in monitoring certain complications in pregnant women with asthma, our findings do not indicate a necessity to alter current practice of optimal (asthma drug therapy) in women of child-bearing age in the general population.
So, if ever any complication relating to your pregnancy rises, don’t link it to your being an asthma patient at the first place.
