False pregnancy is a rare psychoemotional disorder. It is characterized by all the symptoms of a normal pregnancy. A woman develops toxicosis, menstruation stops and even her belly grows. This condition can last for quite a long time, sometimes it even comes to false labor pains. How to distinguish a real pregnancy from a false one?
Instructions
Step 1
It is quite difficult to diagnose a false pregnancy. After all, all the signs that a woman will soon become a mother are present in full. There is nausea, morning vomiting, cravings for certain foods and intolerance to others. The mammary glands become enlarged, and colostrum may even appear. With a false pregnancy, the volume of the abdomen increases either due to the increased development of subcutaneous tissue in the anterior abdominal wall, or due to an increase in the uterus. Sometimes a woman even clearly feels the movement of the "fetus", this is due to a change in the work of the intestines.
Step 2
Only a gynecologist can diagnose a false pregnancy. When examining the uterus, if there is a suspicion that the pregnancy is false, the woman is assigned additional examinations: ultrasound examination of the uterus, biological and immune diagnostics, X-ray of the abdominal cavity.
Step 3
The first sign that the pregnancy is not real for the doctor is the absence of a forming placenta in the patient. Naturally, the fetus itself is absent in a false pregnancy, but if the patient went to the clinic "early", then during a routine gynecological examination in a chair without an ultrasound, the doctor cannot always confidently judge the absence of a fetus. Signs such as softening and enlargement of the uterus are not characteristic of false pregnancy. In some cases, it can be increased with a false pregnancy, but it does not happen softened.
Step 4
In the early stages, the diagnosis of this condition can be carried out exclusively with the help of radiography and ultrasound, but if the "pregnancy" is more than three months, then a standard gynecological examination will help to obtain reliable information.
Step 5
It is almost impossible to independently establish that your pregnancy is false. Even a pregnancy test does not always show a negative result.
