What Will Happen to Me, If I Am Pregnant With IgA Nephropathy

When you are pregnant with IgA Nephropathy, your body has to work more for you and your baby. This overwork will usually aggravate renal condition, which will likely induce pregnancy complications in return.


During pregnancy, women tend to excess fluid retention, which makes mothers to have high blood pressure and the accumulation of toxic byproducts in their blood. Fetus will grow adversely when it is affected with anomaly in level of blood pressure from mother. For the reason that high blood pressure will make fetus get insufficient blood by placenta.

What’s more, if hypertension of mother can be controlled well, other risks are on the way. For example preeclampsia, it can lead to premature birth and metal retardation, as well as renal hemorrhages in mother-to-be.

Pregnancy also brings other serious health risks for both mother and fetus associated with IgA Nephropathy. The risk factors are Hypertension, Premature Labor, Miscarriage, Renal Function Declining, Urinary Tract Infections and Acute Renal Failure and so on.

In addition, IgA Nephropathy, as a kind of renal disease, can affect whole system of human body, such as immune system, mineral levels, nervous system, blood circulation and even your heart or bone. As a result, any system mentioned above may undergo risks during pregnance.

If you are suffering IgA Nephropathy while you are planning to have a baby, it is very necessary for you to have a talk with Nephrologists who will help increase the possibilities to have a healthier fetus/