What Is Systemic Lupus?
8. Pregnancy Risk
If you are a woman of childbearing age, systemic lupus erythematosus can increase your risk of pregnancy complications such as premature delivery, miscarriage, and pre-eclampsia, which is high blood pressure during pregnancy. Furthermore, the medications used to treat SLE can be harmful to an unborn baby, so you may need to discontinue these during pregnancy.
Doctors consider every pregnancy in a patient with SLE to be high risk. This is especially true if you have serious heart or kidney problems as a result. Nevertheless, many SLE patients have healthy pregnancies and deliver successfully. Your doctor may recommend that you wait until your disease has been under control for at least six months before attempting to get pregnant.
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