[Humoral immunity in women with a normally proceeding pregnancy and in pregnancy complicated by iron-deficiency anemia].

The authors studied the state of humoral immunity in thirty six female individuals with normal pregnancy, 52 ones presenting with mild anemia, 33 with moderately severe, and 14 with severe anemia, as well as in twelve healthy non-pregnant women. The studies were made by trimesters in the time course of pregnancy. Those pregnant with no anemia demonstrated lowering of B-lymphocytes, rise in circulating immune complexes (CIC) as compared to the non-pregnant individuals; no difference in the immunoglobulins content was noted.

[The immune status characteristics of pregnant women with iron-deficiency anemia after combined treatment using reflex acupuncture therapy].

Results are submitted of clinical and immunological investigation conducted in 30 pregnant women whose therapeutic programme incorporated acupuncture procedures apart from a complex of conventional antianemic measures. There have been examined pregnant women with varying degree anemia over different time periods of their pregnancy course. Antianemic treatment using acupuncture procedures in pregnant women with iron deficiency anemia was found to significantly activate the state of both cell-mediated and humoral immunity, mobilizing defensive and adaptive bodily reactions, being an efficient option designed to preserve the pregnant women's immunologic tolerance in the system mother-fetus.