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Malaria can put pregnant women at risk of death, miscarriage, early birth, and neonatal death, according to World Malaria Day 2022. The parasite infection spread by mosquitoes can cause serious symptoms in expectant mothers, such as severe anaemia, respiratory distress, and infant death. Pregnant women are three times more likely than non-pregnant women to get severe disease as a result of malaria infection, and they have a higher fatality rate from severe disease.
Malaria in pregnancy poses a risk to both the mother and the growing fetus, and an infected mother is a likely reservoir for Plasmodium infection. Miscarriage, intrauterine mortality, early delivery, low-birth-weight neonates, and neonatal death have all been linked to infection “According to Consultant Infectious Disease at Mumbai’s Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre.
Malaria can be dangerous to expectant mothers in several ways.
“Malaria becomes more severe in pregnancy due to the immunocompromised state of pregnancy and placental sequestration of infected erythrocytes,” explains health experts.
According to the expert, even people who live in malaria-endemic areas lose a considerable amount of immunity during pregnancy, putting pregnant women in danger of severe sickness.
“Malaria-infected red blood cells are destroyed in the spleen and the placenta in pregnant women, leaving them anaemic. Women with severe anaemia are more likely to experience morbidities such congestive heart failure, foetal death, and mortality from haemorrhage during delivery ” Doctors elaborate on the malaria consequences in pregnant women.
Here are several ways pregnant women might avoid catching the sickness.
“In conjunction with their doctor, pregnant women should be trained on how to avoid mosquito bites by utilizing insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), mosquito repellants, long-sleeved clothes, and intermittent prophylactic therapy.
