What is RH incompatibility?
RH incompatibility has a result when a pregnant mother with a negative blood type bears a child with a positive blood type. This can be a serious risk of health for the unborn child, as the mother's body can respond to the baby's blood type by creating antibodies against it. RH incompatibility occurs only when the mother is a negative blood group and a child positive. A woman with a positive blood type that has a child with a negative blood type is not endangered for this condition.
In most cases, it has the first child where incompatibility exists, a danger to a child without risk. It is usually the second child with incompatibility that is at the greatest risk. Normally, a woman is treated in her first pregnancy, where there is incompatibility of RH, immunizing it against the development of positive antibodies of the blood type. A woman usually receives one shot of gamma globulin to 28. Week of pregnancy and another within three days after giving birth. This tends to prevent RH incompatibilv of future pregnancies.
A woman does not have to wear a child to appear to develop incompatibility in future pregnancies. If a woman is pregnant and abortions, she usually has the same "vaccine" to prevent the health of future children. Sometimes a woman does not have to know the history of previous children and whether she could carry a child that caused RH incompatibility. If it has a negative blood type and has previous pregnancy with a father whose blood type is unknown, the best method of determining the potential presence of the state is testing the baby's blood type. If a child has a positive blood type, it can be assumed that a woman develops incompatibility with other children if her partner has a positive blood group.
If incompatibility is not addressed, which may be a problem for women who do not receive prenatal care, the effects on newborns can be very serious. A child with incompatible blood can be born with brain damage, jaundice and in more serious cases,that were born in heart failure. Furthermore, some children die at birth or shortly afterwards when the incompatibility of RH is not detected.
When women receive prenatal care, the blood type is almost always tested to see if there is a risk of RH incompatibility. In the US, there was a standard practice to require a blood test before marriage to be prepared for children that could be at risk of this situation. Few states are still doing this requirement, but if you plan to get pregnant, married or not, you should be sure that you will have your blood testing and your partner. If the mother has positive blood, there is no need to test the father.