Carpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome affects as many as one in three pregnant women. The symptoms include numbness and/or pins and needles in your fingers and hands, generally first thing in the morning. Although carpal tunnel syndrome is generally quite mild, in some cases it can be so painful that sleep is disturbed and hand movements are severely restricted.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by fluid collecting around your wrist joints and pressing on the nerves that go through the wrist to the hand.
It generally improves within a week or two of your baby’s birth.
What can I do about it?
Different women find different remedies helpful. Try the following:
• Hand exercises:
Hold your fingers stretched out as far as possible for a few seconds,
then relax them.
Make a fist, then straighten out your fingers.
Move your hands up and down and from side to side and round and round.
Try 'flicking' them quickly.
• Keep your hands raised as much as possible improvise an elevation sling with a scarf.
• Try dangling your hand over the side of the mattress when you are in bed or, alternatively, try sleeping with your hands slightly raised on pillows.
• Try bathing your hands in a bowl of cold water, or placing them first in cold, and then in warm water before returning once again to cold water
• Wear a wrist support, supplied by your midwife.
• Acupuncture or acupressure helps some women. Consult a qualified practitioner.
• Make sure you are eating a full and balanced diet, containing the full range of vitamins, including the B groups for healthy nerves.
• If the condition is very severe, your doctor may prescribe a diuretic drug to help you lose some excess fluid. Sometimes ultrasound treatment may relieve the symptoms.
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