What you need to know about prenatal ultrasound
If you are pregnant, possibly your gynecologist (a) you have requested that an ultrasound and I have several doubts. What is the study, it is risky for the baby, hurt me, why do I need? Here we have the answer to all these questions and other issues that you should know about prenatal ultrasound or ultrasound.
Have you ever heard that your grandfather did an ultrasound to check the status of your blood vessels, suffering heart problems, and a companion work also had indicated this study, but because he had liver problems. Now, are you happy with your pregnancy and your doctor asked you to give you an ultrasound or ultrasound, then you ask yourself: “I have a problem, why ask me for an ultrasound?”.
The answer is definitely: no. When you’re pregnant, it is common that the doctor will ask to ultrasound, and not just at the beginning but also throughout the pregnancy. Why? Because so far is one of the safest tests to see how the baby is developing inside your body and whether its growth is a complication.
A scan or ultrasound, as its name implies, uses high frequency sound waves and special equipment to produce images of organs and structures within the body (in your case, the baby). It uses a device called a transducer, which sends sound waves into the body and when these are an organ or tissue as an echo bounce and send a signal, thereby to detect how close objects are. It is a method used by bats used in nature to move in space, and industrial level is also used in boats and fishing vessels.
In medicine, ultrasound, or ultrasound are also used to monitor and detect abnormalities in body organs like the heart, blood vessels, kidneys and liver, among others.
To realize this must lie down and take your clothes in the area to be assessed. Then you apply a gel or gel that can be cold at first, but that does not cause pain. Above it, the technical or professional who is conducting the study moves the transducer which allows decipher or interpret the sound waves to image inside the body.