affect poisoning on pregnant mother and birth outcomes: A narrative review
affect poisoning on pregnant mother and birth outcomes: A narrative review
Maryam jafari,1,*
1. Student research committee, Anzali International Medical Campus, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Guilan, Iran
Introduction: Pregnancy is a high-risk period of a mother's life because many factors can affect the mother's and fetus's health and growth, and this time needs exact evaluation. Poisoning during pregnancy is the cause of mortality and morbidity of mothers and their fetus. It was reported that 0.3% of all the poisoning in America yearly happened during pregnancy. Carefully analyzing the type of component, treatment, time, and type of exposure can lead to a general view for better intervention and decrease problems during pregnancy due to poisoning. This study aims to investigate factors and causes of poisoning during pregnancy and birth outcomes of pregnant mothers and mother health after poisoning.
Methods: This comprehensive study was conducted by searching scientific databases, including PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus, with "Poisoning" and "Pregnancy" keywords during the last ten years of English articles. The subject was the poisoning of pregnant women with different components and birth outcomes.
Results: This comprehensive study was conducted by searching scientific databases, including PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus, with "Poisoning" and "Pregnancy" keywords during the last ten years of English articles. The subject was the poisoning of pregnant women with different components and their children's birth outcomes.
The result of the previous studies investigated that the most common cause of poisoning during pregnancy was medication poisoning, that the use of Benzodiazepines and painkillers in high doses was prevalent, and in the next step of poisoning with Pesticides and drugs was prevalent. Most of the poisoning happened of Self-harm intentionally and, in the 1st and second trimesters of pregnancy, suicide history was seen in some mothers. Notably, poisoning with CO was also shared and unintentional in pregnant women. CO may lead pregnancy to abortion and mother to danger of death. Oxygen therapy is indicated in CO-poisoned mothers. The pregnant mother's average age has been under 25, and pregnant with their first child. Poisoning during this period affected the children's health and growth, and children birthed with poisoning history needed to follow up to grow up normally.
Conclusion: Poisoning can affect the mother's and fetus's health. Mothers can be poisoned intentionally or unintentionally due to many factors, and it is essential to know the common reasons for dealing with referred poisoned mothers and following up with their children after birth to reduce the risk of future problems.