{"id":6982,"date":"2015-06-08T17:12:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terrybryant.com\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2024-01-05T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:42:41","slug":"birth-injuryrh-incompatibility-php","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.terrybryant.com\/houston-medical-malpractice-lawyer\/birth-injury-lawyer\/rh-incompatibility-birth-lawyer","title":{"rendered":"RH Incompatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Rh factor or \u201cRhesus factor\u201d is a <a href=\"\/houston-medical-malpractice-lawyer\/birth-injury-lawyer\/glossary-of-birth-injury-terms#antigen\">red blood cell antigen<\/a>. When causing a birth injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhlbi.nih.gov\/health\/blood-tests\" target=\"external\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rh Incompatibility<\/a>occurs when a pregnant woman has Rh-negative blood type and her baby has Rh-positive blood type. If the mother is exposed to Rh-positive fetal blood cells during delivery or pregnancy, her body may produce <a href=\"\/houston-medical-malpractice-lawyer\/birth-injury-lawyer\/glossary-of-birth-injury-terms#antibody\">Rh antibodies<\/a>, which enter the mother\u2019s circulation system. Once the mother is exposed, she may pass these antibodies to her child during the current pregnancy or future pregnancies. The exposed child may acquire fetal alloimmune hemolytic anemia, a condition where red blood cells are destroyed faster than they can be created, which means the baby will not receive enough oxygen.<\/p><div id=\"glm-mobile-toc-box\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/797150-overview\" target=\"external\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SYMPTOMS<\/a>:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>anemia<\/li>\n<li>combination anemia and <a href=\"http:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/797150-overview\" target=\"external\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hyperbilirubinemia\/jaundice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>erythroblastosis fetalis (severe <a href=\"http:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/797150-overview\" target=\"external\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hyperbilirubinemia\/jaundice<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/houston-medical-malpractice-lawyer\/birth-injury-lawyer\/glossary-of-birth-injury-terms#kernicterus\">kernicterus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are concerned that your child is suffering from Rh incompatibility, contact the Houston birth injury lawyers at the accident and injury law office of Terry Bryant. Call us today at 1 (800) 444-5000 or fill out a confidential and <a href=\"\/contact-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">FREE initial consultation form<\/a>, which only takes a few minutes to complete.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rh factor or \u201cRhesus factor\u201d is a red blood cell antigen. When causing a birth injury, Rh Incompatibilityoccurs when a pregnant woman has Rh-negative blood type and her baby has Rh-positive blood type. If the mother is exposed to Rh-positive fetal blood cells during delivery or pregnancy, her body may produce Rh antibodies, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7066,"parent":6030,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6982","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Houston Rh Incompatibility Birth Injury Lawyer | Terry Bryant Law Firm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If a doctor has exposed a mother or child to Rh Incompatibility it can cause serious complications. 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