Patient's question:
Female, 28 years old, pregnant for more than half a year. When she had a thorough check-up at the hospital, everything was normal, but she was very upset about the possibility of a recurrence of gestational hypertension. What are the symptoms of gestational hypertension?Doctor's answer:
Symptoms of gestational hypertension, it has different manifestations. The most common one is when you go for irregular prenatal check-ups, we measure your blood pressure, and it's below 140/90. After resting for a while and rechecking, it's still high. Then the doctor might diagnose you with gestational hypertension. This applies to the group of people with irregular prenatal check-ups. For those without irregular prenatal check-ups, some may suddenly experience dizziness at home, or sudden severe lower limb edema, or suddenly find that their urine output is reduced. For more severe cases, she might suddenly collapse and have convulsions, losing consciousness. This is what we commonly call, colloquially known as epilepsy, but in obstetrics, it's called eclampsia, which is a recurrence of convulsions, and there are also people who experience a recurrence of this condition.