False pregnancy (a pseudopregnancy or pseudocyesis as it name in medicine) - rare disorder which, nevertheless, is serious emotional and psychologic disorder. However that the hysteric pregnancy and how it to distinguish represents? What its causes and signs? What women are most subject to danger of a hysteric pregnancy and it gives in to what treatment?
What is the pseudopregnancy?
Pseudopregnancy - a state, at which signs of pregnancy (for example, the gaste augmentation, weight rising, a morning nausea and absence of a menses) become perceptible at nonpregnant women. Usually such state can educe at the woman on emotional bedrock.
In the USA on 22 000 real pregnant women it is necessary one - six cases of pregnancy false.
The hysteric pregnancy causes
In spite of the fact that the nature of this state just should be studied, experts are assured, that the hysteric pregnancy is often caused by psychologic and emotional factors.
According to psychologists, the women, worrying a hysteric pregnancy, feel the strongest, all-consuming desire to become pregnant and go through pregnancy. Such women often have signs of high-grade pregnancy approximately at the same time when pregnancy their girlfriends or close relatives worry.
Researches also bind a hysteric pregnancy to pituitary body work (which is the centre of development of hormones in pregnancy), and in particular, with extraordinary high level of hormones. Such hormonal disbalance is often caused by stress and the experiences, the raised uneasiness, that, in turn, causes emotional and psychologic alterations in consciousness of the woman. As a result, the woman stays in confidence that expects the child.
Hysteric pregnancy signs
The women, worrying a hysteric pregnancy, assert, that at them show - and in some cases it is valid so - following symptoms of the present pregnancy:
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The menses termination
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Toxicosis
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Bent for to certain products
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Gaste augmentation
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Augmentation of breasts
Experts cannot define the cause why the hysteric pregnancy is accompanied by physiological symptoms of the present pregnancy with accuracy.
Hysteric pregnancy diagnostics
Though any test for pregnancy, for example, the test with strias, will confirm groundlessness of suspicions, the women, worrying a hysteric pregnancy, persistently continue to assert, that actually expect the child as very strongly it want.
However, some women receive a positive take of the test for pregnancy, that only complicates hysteric pregnancy diagnosing.
False pregnancy: risk categories
The women concerning such categories are most subject to risk of a hysteric pregnancy:
Women are more senior 30-40 years, which long years try to become pregnant and suffering from Infertility
Women with astable psychics or excessive excitability, too acquisitive to everything, that is bound to children and pregnancy
Women, in the past having experience of an abortion or lost the child
Hysteric pregnancy treatment
As a rule, for hysteric pregnancy treatment prescribe consultation of the psychologist which helps to eliminate the psychologic and emotional causes of a pseudopregnancy, including stress consequences, uneasiness and depression.
