Post Date December, 03 2023
In daily life, women often experience nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and loss of appetite during pregnancy, which is a normal physiological response during pregnancy. But is it normal for the husband to experience similar symptoms during his wife's pregnancy? Next, please listen to the editor's detailed introduction to everyone.
This strange phenomenon of wives getting pregnant and husbands getting sick is medically referred to as "pregnancy associated syndrome".
The doctor conducted a three-year survey of 147 men who were about to become fathers, and the results showed that about 90% of the subjects had symptoms of pregnancy reactions. For example, during the wife's early pregnancy reaction, the husband may also experience nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, or desire to eat certain special foods. When the wife gives birth, the husband may experience anxiety, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, and abdominal distension, and sometimes symptoms such as depression, insomnia, irritability, nervousness, and headache. This series of symptoms often persist until the wife gives birth for about a month before they disappear.
This phenomenon is mainly caused by psychological factors through research. Medical experts believe that pregnancy associated syndrome is a neurological or psychosomatic disorder caused by psychological factors. The main cause of its onset is the interweaving of the joy of being a father, the anxiety of waiting for the birth of a baby, the confusion of future responsibilities, the anxiety of children's health, and various strong emotions, leading to the husband's mental disorder.
Pregnancy associated syndrome patients not only have psychological factors, but also have physiological changes.
Medical experts conducted blood tests on 34 expectant fathers undergoing prenatal assistance training and found that the men who were about to become fathers had increased levels of corticosteroids, prolactin, and testosterone during their wives' pregnancy compared to before. After the birth of a child, the levels of these hormones in the blood of fathers will also decrease significantly, just like those of mothers. Researchers believe that this is due to the conditioned changes in hormones in the bodies of expectant fathers caused by the behavior and odors emitted by women during pregnancy. Regardless of the reason, facts have shown that men also experience 'pregnancy reactions'.
In order to prevent pregnancy associated syndrome, married young people should treat pregnancy and childbirth correctly, learn some medical knowledge related to pregnancy and childbirth, and thus relieve their mental worries. The treatment of this disease mainly involves taking medication such as vitamin B6 and diazepam internally; Simultaneously treating pregnancy reactions is also very important.
