Low Blood Pressure After C Section

Drop in blood pressure or signs of shock.

Low blood pressure after c section. Having chills clammy skin or a really fast heartbeat. You can try gentle exercises a few days after the c section. This can help prevent lung congestion from sitting in bed so much.

Death from cesarean delivery complications or any pregnancy related cause is very rare in the u s. The rest are caused by other problems like heart trouble or high blood pressure. Nausea feeling sick to your stomach or throwing up.

First off your systolic bp should be around 100 when you are. If the loss of blood was identified and stopped during surgery then there really is no emergency. The anesthesia may be the cause and that can happen with either epidural or general.

I dont know what anaesthetic you had during the c section but if it was an epidural or spinal they both tend to lower your blood pressure even further because they suppress the heart to some. Extremely low blood pressure after c section. Take 2 or 3 slow deep breaths every half hour.

The thing that we are most afraid is acute blood loss. Or feeling like you re going to faint. A drop in blood pressure or hypotension may not only be uncomfortable for the mother and cause nausea vomiting and cold sweat but it can be dangerous too.

If that is the cause of low pressure there may well be active bleeding and an emergency. Breathing may become rapid and gasping with respiration of 22 minute or more according to the merck manual. Vital sign changes tachycardia or rapid heartbeat over 100 beats per minute is a classic sign of internal bleeding and hypovolemic shock.