Pregnancy Journals Recalls Safety Shopping Sleep Site Map Shop. I'm not talking about constipation and common diarrhea here. Constipation is famous in pregnancy due to the decreased mobility of the bowels under the influence of progesterone.
Common diarrhea is usually a brief self-resolving illness unrelated to pregnancy.
These are sometimes debilitating immunological diseases that cause bowel damage which can cause pain, nutritional abnormalities, and can even lead to surgery or death. And thankfully, getting pregnant during times of quiet for these diseases usually means things will go smoothly for the pregnancy. Newly diagnosed IBD during a pregnancy is unlikely and therefore suspicious, so other causes need to be ruled out, like a weird presentation of appendicitis. And appendicitis will always be a weird presentation during pregnancy, because the location of the appendix is pushed up and away from the famous right lower spot of the abdomen. But it would be quite the coincidence to have a patient's very first episode of IBD occur during her pregnancy, so an obstetrician must always consider these other things with an initial presentation of symptoms like this during pregnancy.