Multiple sclerosis is not a real risk in pregnancy
5 April 2002
US researchers say women with multiple sclerosis (MS) are no more likely to have pregnancy or birth complications — besides maternal anaemia — than other women.
But women with MS are more than twice as likely to be back in hospital within 3 months of giving birth, and so need strong support systems and close postnatal monitoring.
Children of mothers with MS were no more likely to have low birth weight, be born preterm, or have malformations than other children, the researchers reported in the journal American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2002; 186: 446-52).
Last Reviewed: 12 April 2002
- Medical Observer Weekly 05/04/02
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