Postpartum psychosis

- psychotic conditions caused by complications that occurred during labor. With prolonged labor with the application of forceps, manual separation of the placenta, with operative intervention, asthenia is usually observed (weakness, fatigue, sleep disturbances). If childbirth is accompanied by a large blood loss, postpartum sepsis, then there may be deeper disorders of the psyche with confusion of consciousness, motor excitement. Can be a depressed mood with anxiety, fear for your child, with delusions and misconduct caused by them. Such mothers do not let anyone in to the child, not even their loved ones. It seems to them that a child can be poisoned or harmed to him. In some cases, for delusional reasons, the young mother starts giving the child various medications or improperly nourished. With a heightened mood with excitement, hallucinations, the danger to the child is even more likely. Psychotic states are usually short-lived and priklikvidatsii causes of psychosis (compensation for hemorrhage, treatment of sepsis), the appropriate treatment quickly enough to stop.
Childbirth can provoke the emergence of other mental illnesses (schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis). However, seizures of these diseases usually develop not immediately after childbirth, but on the 10-12th day after childbirth or several months later. The precursors of these disorders are usually detected in the prenatal period in the form of unreasonable anxiety, fear, persistent insomnia and other symptoms.
Mental disorders of asthenic nature are usually corrected right in the maternity hospital. Women create optimal conditions for rest, regulate sleep, prescribe vitamins, nootropics. Psychotherapy is being conducted. The presence of acute psychosis requires the transfer of a patient to the psychosomatic department, where qualified care is provided by both obstetrician-gynecologists and psychiatrists. Treatment is carried out with neuroleptics and other psychotropic drugs, and therefore forbids mothers to continue breastfeeding the baby in order to avoid adverse consequences.