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Urine red in pregnancy

Alexey Portnov, medical expert
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024

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Doctors pay special attention to women awaiting the appearance of a child. Urine of red color during pregnancy disturbs both the future mother and her treating doctor. Therefore, it is very important to find out the causes of hematuria, exclude possible pathologies and, if possible, stop this condition.

Causes

Factors provoking a symptom are urine red in pregnancy:

Idiopathic hematuria of pregnant women. A poorly understood clinical symptom, fortunately, is transient and is not considered an alarming sign.
Injuries, bruises of the back, fall.
Sharp changes in the hormonal background due to stress, anxiety.
Infectious diseases that carry a health risk not only to women, but also to the fetus (scarlet fever, chicken pox, rubella).
Urolithiasis disease.
Hemangioma of the kidney.
Chronic kidney disease in history before pregnancy.
Subcooling, cystitis.
Kista of the kidney.
Thrombosis of veins.
Hepatopathology.
Arteriovenous fistula.
Reception of drugs (medicines), vitamins.
Reception of anticoagulants.
Non-compliance with hygiene rules.
Cutting leap in fetal development, pressure on the bladder
Diabetes mellitus in the anamnesis.
Hemorrhoids.

The most extensible is the extrarenal hematuria of pregnant women, the therapy of renal and postrenal hematuria is worse and more risky for the fetus.

For other reasons for the appearance of red urine, see this article.

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What to do?

Details of what to do, to which doctor to treat, how to treat, if you have red urine read this article.

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