Compression underwear for pregnant women

Sometimes pregnancy becomes a small test for the future mother. Increased pressure is created on soft tissues and blood vessels, swelling and discomfort occurs. To improve well-being and preserve health, doctors recommend using special underwear with a compression effect.

Practical and comfortable compression underwear has many uses:

• helps to keep the future mom's growing muscle tone, which increases with each passing week;
• enables the body to properly distribute the load on the veins during movement;
• improves and normalizes blood flow, prevents stagnation of fluid in soft tissues;
• reduces the risk of stretch marks on the skin, creating a good tonic effect.

Pregnant women often suffer from swelling and tiredness in the legs, which increases as the date of birth approaches. Properly selected stockings or tights with compression will help solve these problems. But always It is worth remembering the contraindicationscapable of causing negative effects:

• the presence of diseases leading to the narrowing of the veins and blood vessels;
• blood pressure problems;
• open wounds and irritations on the skin.

Compression underwear sewn from high-quality elastic knitwear. But the tender skin of a woman in a position can react with an unexpected allergic reaction against the background of a hormonal change. Therefore, you should not save and pick up a similar accessory for yourself only in specialized stores or pharmacies.

Compression knitwear is increasingly recommended by doctors at different stages of pregnancy. It is actively used by people who care about their health. Therefore, medical companies produce a wide variety of series:

• For pregnant: In the early stages, underwear can be an excellent prevention of venous diseases. Additionally, all models are designed to support the growing forms and have special banding inserts. Such underwear gives real comfort and reduces fatigue during mobile work.

• For childbirth: modern maternity wards are increasingly introducing special compression stockings to the list of mandatory accessories in the delivery room. This is due to the large overloads experienced by the fragile female body during delivery. The use of this accessory significantly reduces the risk of thrombosis or swelling, damage to blood vessels and muscles.

• After childbirth: A special series of corrective underwear will be useful prevention of many complications after the baby is born. These are various models of corsets, tights or panties with special properties. They help to give sophistication and smartness to the silhouette of a woman, saving her from complexes about the extra folds at the waist. Special inserts from the fabric tone the relaxed and slightly stretched muscles of the abdomen, help to avoid displacement of the internal organs. Particularly relevant products for recovery after cesarean section, which requires increased attention to health.

• During sports: slimming effect of compression underwear found active use in sports lines. Made in the form of a T-shirt, body or grace, it perfectly redistributes moisture and heat, allows a person to move freely and easily during workouts. This is an excellent protection for ligaments and tendons, helping to avoid painful injuries.

Any compression garment is sewn of fabric with a different combination of threads: organic cotton, modern microfiber or lycra, practical nylon. In addition to excellent tensile properties, it has no seams capable of rubbing the skin of a woman, has thermal conductivity. The skin in such stockings or graces “breathes” well and remains dry.

Manufacturers offer women a huge range of products that are related to compression garments. But the most popular are:

• stockings or high knee-highs;
• tights for pregnant women;
• panties of a certain style;
• half-grades supporting the front wall of the abdomen.

The choice depends on the medical situation and the need to wear. It is necessary to select this accessory on the recommendation of the supervising physician, who can correctly assess the situation and the degree of necessary support. The latter consists in the density of weaving of threads and the style of tailoring. He must take into account all the features of the figure of the future mother.

All manufacturers make their models in several main classes.from which you can choose the most necessary:

• First degree Compression is shown as a prophylactic and recommended for women with a predisposition to varicose veins, unaesthetic spider veins on the legs.
• Second class more suitable for the occurrence of complications in pregnant women, swelling and severe pain in the legs. It has a certain healing effect and is more compacted to the touch.
• Third class Compression should not be used without a doctor's prescription. This is the densest linen, which is used almost constantly in chronic inflammatory processes in the vessels.

In pregnancy, the most appropriate option would be wearing compression tights. Unlike short stockings, they distribute pressure over the entire leg and have a comfortable bandage in front of the abdomen. They do not slip and do not roll, giving confidence to the woman in the position. The correct model distributes the pressure over from the ankle all the way to the top, avoiding increased grip at the waist.

Do not forget that such tights are medical knitwear. Therefore, the choice must be made not by attractiveness, but by the correct parameters. To do this, a woman needs to make several measurements that will take into account the length of the internal and external steps, the circumference of the thigh and lower leg. This will help to choose the most comfortable and practical model of compression underwear.

For pregnant women, experts recommend picking up accessories with the addition of synthetic rubber thread.It has excellent tensile properties and does not cause allergies. Adjust the size of the legs can be a choice of tights with an open line of fingers. And the purchase itself is better to make in special stores or pharmacies, where employees will prompt the most optimal option for all important parameters.

Compression tights or stockings are better for pregnant women to start wearing from the first trimester. It is recommended to wear them in the prone position and without haste, so as not to provoke a sharp influx of fluid, to allow it to be distributed evenly into the tissues. Even the most expensive and high-quality products over time lose their shape and preventive properties, therefore the optimal period of continuous use of one pair of tights should not exceed six months.

Compression underwear has a different price category depending on the quality and manufacturer. Among the budget companies can be distinguished "ORTO" or "Inteks", producing practical and inexpensive products. Constant development of innovative properties and fabrics made such brands as Sigvaris or Bauerfeind in demand. A large variety allows you to choose the right couple for a woman with any income and save your health during pregnancy.