Call The Midwife star's 'intense pregnancy itching' was liver disease choleostasis, spot the signs
22.02.2022 - 18:25
/ ok.co.uk
This week Call the Midwife star Helen George - who plays Trixie - described how her experience of cholestasis during her second pregnancy with daughter Lark kept her ‘scratching all day and all night’. The 37-year-old actress - whose partner Jack Ashton was also in the hit series - was diagnosed with the liver condition after she gave birth to her first daughter Wren, now four. She told her Instagram followers that her second pregnancy - which resulted in the birth of daughter, Lark, last November - was ‘so uncomfortable and painful’.
It was after cholestasis was highlighted during Sunday's emotional episode of Call The Midwife that Helen opened up about her condition. 'I started getting the itch a lot earlier with this pregnancy and it was infuriating. I tried everything, creams, baths all of it and nothing would work,’ she shared.
'I would scratch all day and all night, normally on my hands, shoulders, feet but that quickly increased to just bloody everywhere. I was put onto medication (Urso) at around 30 wks. 'My bile acids- whilst up and down were stable because of this, so I knew Lark was okay and the pregnancy progressing well.
But the medication did little for the itch and urge to scratch myself raw. I have to say this pregnancy was so uncomfortable and painful. I thought the second would be easier but it really wasn’t.' The star ended the post by urging other women who are worried they may have cholestasis in pregnancy to ‘reach out’ for support.
Cholestasis is a liver disease that affects 1 in 140 pregnant women in the UK and slows or stops the normal flow of bile from the gallbladder. But what actually is it? Normally, bile acids flow from your liver to your gut to help you digest food. In ICP, the bile acids
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