Peculiarities of manicure and pedicure during pregnancy

Expectant mothers want to be beautiful twice: their state of mind has the desire to contemplate all that is beautiful, more than ever before, they want to be attractive to their men. But many cosmetic procedures while carrying a baby are considered undesirable. Many questions also cause a manicure with a pedicure - whether it is possible to do, how and with what, whether it will harm the child. Let's understand these issues.

Manicure for pregnant women, as well as for all other women, is an integral part of caring for yourself. And by itself, hand care is not only not harmful, but extremely useful both from a psychological and hygienic point of view. But the manicure may be different.

Nail care activities for expectant mothers must meet the basic requirements:

• be safe;
• eliminate the risk of injury;
• not to be excessive and frequent.

From this point of view it becomes quite obvious that the manicure, widespread and loved by women, in which the cuticle is soaked in the bath and is cut off, does not meet the safety requirements. When circumcision is very easy to damage the tissue adjacent to the cuticle, and given that we do not live in the operating room, but in a world populated by viruses, bacteria, fungal microorganisms, if the integrity of the skin is compromised, the probability of infection increases tenfold.

Inflammation can be severe, because pregnant women significantly reduced immunity. Such a mechanism is designed by nature so that the future mother’s immune system does not reject the fetus. The reduced ability of the body to resist even the usual pathogen becomes such an effect of reducing immunity.

Unedged manicure seems more reasonable for pregnant women - with him, the cuticle is not cut off, but moved aside with special orange sticks and treated with emollients. This type of hand nail care is considered optimal for expectant mothers in most countries of Europe, the USA.

There is also a unedged hardware manicure, in which the cuticle is cleaned by grinding without cutting. This way to bring the nails in order is also quite suitable for expectant mothers. The only limitation is increased fragility of the nail plate due to hormonal changes. If the nails become thin and break, extra polishing is undesirable.It is better to give preference to the usual unedged manicure with moisturizing oils.

What you should not do is build up your nails during pregnancy. This is a rather traumatic procedure that affects the state of the nail plate. In addition, extended nails are more difficult to care for, and under them numerous pathogenic bacteria and dirt can accumulate.

Materials for building (gel, acryl) contain dangerous additives that are able to penetrate the nail plate into the body and accumulate there. Use with caution gel polish. It contains formaldehyde and toluene - strong carcinogenic substances that easily overcome the barrier not only in the form of a nail plate, but also the placental barrier.

Then - with the observance of all precautions and without the use of products containing acetone. After every 2-3 weeks of wearing a gel manicure, you should take a break for a couple of weeks.to give nails a rest and recover.

Manicure is recommended only for a good, skillful master who does not neglect all precautionary measures - the master's workplace is clean, disposable or processed tools, there are always means for disinfection, antiseptic, antibacterial plaster and wadded tampons in hand and in case of injury. UV lamp, contrary to popular belief about its harm, the unborn child does not harm.

Masters still need to warn about your "interesting position." This is important so that he avoids aggressive means in his work., careless movements with sharp instruments, and also tried to do everything quickly - a woman in a position can be quite difficult to sit in one place for a long time.

It is important for doctors to see the natural color of your nails, since discoloration of the nail plates during childbirth is often a sign of internal bleeding or problems with the heart and blood vessels.

Pedicure - a complex of care measures for the nails on the legs and feet as a whole. In the course of a pedicure, the nail plates are not only polished and molded, but also the heels are softened, callosities, natoptysh are removed, foot massage is done. Pregnant pedicure is not contraindicated, but care should be taken when choosing the type of procedure.

Agree, a pedicure master is not at all obliged to know the active points of the foot, which are dangerous to encourage pregnant women. That is why it is better to refrain from massage, allowing only self-massage in the form of light stroking of the feet. The rest of the pedicure does not hurt.

If a woman is used to doing pedicure herself, at home, then in the second half of pregnancy this procedure can cause difficulties - it will be difficult to bend, and sitting with your legs thrown back will be completely uncomfortable. The pedicure master or her own husband can come to the rescue if he is taught this simple science.

It is not necessary to use foot baths with hot water - this causes blood flow to the lower extremities, which increases the likelihood of miscarriage, exacerbation or the initial formation of hemorrhoids or varicose veins of the lower extremities. Try not to allow the water temperature in the foot bath to exceed 45 degrees with a plus sign.

If there is ingrown nail, during pregnancy, its removal is better to entrust the surgeon, and not the master of pedicureas you used to do before. The risk of an infection in the wound is much higher, and therefore removal should be carried out in a sterile hospital environment.

In the future, you should use only natural skin softeners that do not have strong odors and do not contain hazardous carcinogenic substances.

Like a manicure, pedicure is advisable for a short time, so that a woman should not be forced to sit in one position for a long time. It is better to carry out the procedure in reclining posture on the side, because the posture on the back leads to pinching the inferior vena cava, which negatively affects the state of health of the pregnant woman and the well-being of the fetus.

The room must be well ventilated, it must be ventilated, so that unpleasant smells, which may be inherent in some care products, quickly evaporate. Design and color solution for women in the "interesting position" - not the main thing. It is much more important that the products are hypoallergenic, natural. This may make the procedure more expensive, but worth it.

On why dangerous gel Polish during pregnancy, you will learn from the following video.