HOW RhoGAM PREVENTS DISEASE

(ERYTHROBLASTOSIS FETALIS)

HOW ERYTHROBLASTOSIS FETALIS DEVELOPS;

Rh +ve father
Rh –ve mother
Conceive a child

Rh –ve mother If the woman

carrying her first In response to becomes pregnant
RH +ve fetus. the fetal Rh with another Rh
Rh antigens antigens, the +ve fetus, her
from the baby mother becomes anti-Rh antibodies
can enter the sensitized, and will cross the
mother’s forms anti-Rh placenta and
bloodstream at antibodies. attack the fetal
delivery. red blood cells.

HOW RhoGAM PREVENTS ERYTHROBLASTOSIS FETALIS;

RhoGAM given Rh
No Rh +ve blood
within 72 hours incompatibility
remains, so the
of delivery will not be a
mother does not
destroys any problem in later
form anti-Rh
fetal red blood pregnancies.
antibodies.
cells that remain The Rh +ve
Sensitization
in the maternal fetus is
Prevented.
circulation. protected.