Skin Manifestation During Pregnancy in Kirkuk City

Abstract

Background:

Dermatological complaints during pregnancy generally can be divided into three types: Hormone-related, preexisting one, and pregnancy-specific type. Normal Hormone changes during pregnancy may cause skin conditions, including striae gravidarum, hyperpigmentation, hair, nails, and vascular changes. Preexisting skin conditions (atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, fungal infections) which may deteriorate at the pregnancy period. While pregnancy-specific skin manifestations include pruritic urticarial papules, plaques of pregnancy, gemphigoid Gestations, impetigo herpetiformis, and pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy, of whom are more common are, including pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy. At the postpartum period, most skin manifestations are resolved by symptomatic medicine.

 Aim Of the Study Comparison between physiological and specific skin complaints at the pregnancy period

Material And Methods: A selective, comparative study was done on pregnant ladies attending the outpatient clinic of the dermatology department at General Azadi Teaching Hospital and private clinics between the 1st of February 2021 And 1ST of June 2023, Two hundred (200) ladies whom had been proved to be fit for our inclusion criteria and their age was between 20 up to 40 years. One hundred eighty-six (186) women were complete the study and had been Included to fill out our questionnaire paper. Questions were to evaluate physiological skin changes and those of pregnancy-specific lesions.

Results

1. For The Physiological Skin Changes As Stretch (54%) While For Acne, Hyperpigmentation, Telagen Efflavum, And Nail changes Were (18%), (22%), (28%), (12%) respectively


2. For The Specific Skin Changes Were Recurrent Herpes Labialis (3%) While For Pruritis And Candida Vulvovaginitis (53%), (30%) Respectively


3. (12%) the Ladies Were Received Treatment By Obestetrtions, While Who Needed Dermatological Consultations Were (15%)


4. Resolving With Treatment Was (78%), While Deterioration of Wellbeing Was (22%)


5. The Group of a Faster Rate of Treatment Was Within 2 - 4 weeks, While The Group of a Slower Rate of Treatment Were With In 1-2 Months.

Conclusion: The skin manifestations during pregnancy were to be more physiological than those to be specific to pregnancy.