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Friday, October 2, 2009
Labor And Delivery Options
By, Ashley Kurz: There are many options today to allow you to customize your own birthing experience. Having a child is one of the most meaningful and joyous occasions in your life. When you meet your child for the first time, make sure the experience is a comfortable one for both you and the child. Your religious views, family tradition, and personal ideals will play a role in the process of planning your baby’s birth.
Location! Location! Location!
Where you decide to have your baby is very important, as this decision will affect how many other choices you have for customizing the process.
---> Home Birth: Many women choose to have their babies at home. You can do this if you decide to use a midwife, or doula. At home you have the option of having the baby in water, or on a bed. Your doula or midwife will discuss the many positions available to make you as comfortable as possible. Drugs are not generally available for home birthing. If something goes wrong, and you must have a cesarian section, you midwife or doula will call for an ambulance to take you top a hospital for the procedure.
---> Birthing Centers: Birthing centers are all different, and you should educate yourself on what is available in your area. These centers usually are for natural birth with a doula or midwife. The experience will be similar to that of a home birth, and much cozier than a hospital.
---> Hospitals: Hospitals also allow the use of tubs for water birthing, different positions, and midwives or doulas. Hospitals, however, are a little less cozy and more of a sterile environment. Hospitals have doctors and anesthesiologists on staff. Pain medication is available at the hospital. This is one reason most women choose hospitals over birthing centers or home births.
However you decide to plan your baby’s birth, make sure you weigh your options and talk to your healthcare provider about any concerns. Being prepared for labor and delivery is the key to a less stressful birth. Congratulations on your new family member!
Friday, September 25, 2009
How To Avoid Cancer
First of all, our habits contribute to cancer in a big way. For example, many different things cause lung cancer but the main cause of lung cancer is smoking. This is something we can control. So, just quit smoking, it’s one of the best things you can do for your health.
Are you a ‘sun worshiper’? When you slather on that tanning oil, and lay out to be baked, you could be inviting melanoma (skin cancer) to set up shop. Try exfoliating before and after sun exposure. Don’t use tanning lotions with less than SPF (Sun Protection Factor) 30. Apply the lotion 15-30 minutes before lying out. Don’t worry you can still tan, it’s the burn you need to avoid.
How about diet? There are many small changes you can make in your diet to better your chances of skipping all types of cancer. Try these changes:
• Only use salt in moderation.
• Stop eating red meat, and processed meats.
• Drink alcohol only in moderation, or not at all.
• Never use refined sugars.
• Don’t use saccharin-containing products.
• Eat your fruits and vegetables everyday. (Yes, mom was right)
• Work antioxidants into your diet. (Coffee is on that list!)
Cancer isn’t fully understood at this point, but we need to use what we do know to avoid it being a part of our lives.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
PROTEIN DEFICIENCY ANAEMIA
In experimental animals, deficiency of protein or some of the essential amino acids are known to induce anaemia which is curable with protein. In dogs, made anaemic by bleeding, haemoglobin regeneration appears to be accelerated by dietary protein.
In humans, however, protein deficiency unless its very severe may not cause any significant anaemia. Haemoglobin has got a high priority for available protein and under conditions of protein deficiency, haemoglobin formation proceeds in preference to formation of proteins in plasma and tissues. Anaemia of protein deficiency occurs mostly in the poor in association with generalised malnutrition resulting from dietary inadequacy. Though its particularly common in young children with kwashiorkor and in pregnant women, older children, adult males and non-pregnant females may also be affected. Clinically such patients show signs of protein malnutrition. Wasting, however, may not be a prominent feature as the calorie content is not always low, though the diet lacks in protein. The liver is often palpable, though the spleen is usually not.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
DIMORPHIC ANAEMIA
Combined deficiency of haemopoietic factors are common particularly when the basic cause is dietary inadequacy or intestinal malabsorption. When iron deficiency is associated with deficiency of folic and/or vitamin B12, the resulting condition has been called dimorphic anaemia. Dimorphic anaemia may therefore occur whenever and wherever causes contributing to the deficiency of iron, folic acid and vitamin B12 are operative. The causative factors will thus include a combination of those discussed under iron deficiency anaemia and nutritional macrocytic anaemia. Common conditions where anaemia is dimorphic are :
(a) Dietary inadequacy, particularly during growing periods and in pregnancy.
(b) Intestinal malabsorption and post-gastrectomy syndrome.
(c) Dietary inadequacy in association with blood loss.
Clinical features will vary depending on the degree of anaemia; the relative proportion of the deficient factors, is also one of the basic cause.
The haematological findings will be determined by the relative contribution of iron on one hand and folic acid and/or vitamin B12 on the other hand. In an average case, evidences of dimorphic anaemia will be evident from the following :
Gross erythrocytic hypochromia and/or hypoferraemia in association with megaloblasts in blood and/or low serum vitamin B12 or serum folate.
When one deficiency is predominating, the expression of other deficiency may be masked. The presence of such a latent minor deficiency may be unmasked when the major deficiency has been corrected with appropriate therapy.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
NUTRITIONAL MACROCYTIC ANAEMIA
First described by Wills(1930) found in Indian women; the disorder represents dietary inadequacy of folic acid and/or vitamin B12. The relative proportion of folic acid and vitamin B12 deficiency varies from one patient to another, and from one place to another depending mainly on the dietary habits of the patient concerned. It is particularly common in the poor people of tropical and sub-tropical countries. Apart from poverty, religious tenets and wrong dietary habits contribute to dietary inadequacy. Megaloblastic anaemias in infancy and pregnancy are variants of this disorder. Increased demands of the stressful periods, unmasking a latent deficiency. Adequate amount of intrinsic factor is present. In an average case, there is no significant evidence of malabsorption of vitamin B12 and folic acid, though, diarrhoea, steatorrhoea, and a flat glucose tolerance curve may be present. When prolonged deficiency has led to severe depletion, a secondary factor of intestinal malabsorption may be superimposed due to dystrophic changes of intestinal mucous membrane. The disorder is uncommon in temperate climates where occasional cases are seen in infancy, pregnancy and in association with dietary inadequacy incidental to vegetarianism.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
ANAEMIA IN PREGNANCY
The term ‘anaemia in pregnancy’ refers to all forms of anaemia encountered during pregnancy. This term includes anaemias occurring independently of pregnancy and also anaemias precipitated or caused by pregnancy. The term ‘anaemia of pregnancy’ is, however, used in a more restricted sense and is applicable only to those types which appear for the first time during pregnancy and are directly precipitated or caused by the pregnancy. Thus anaemia in pregnant women may be either direct consequence of pregnancy or just an associated condition perhaps unmasked by the pregnancy.
Pregnancy is regarded as a physiological process. In normal pregnancy, a healthy woman with adequate haemopoietic reserve should not usually show any anaemia. But even under normal conditions, certain physiological adjustments regularly takes place to meet the increased metabolic demands which are consequent on or conditioned by pregnancy. These physiological adjustments do not ordinarily entail any significant strain on maternal haematopoiesis. Under unfavorable circumstances, however, these changes may not only deplete the maternal reserve but may also predispose to or precipitate anaemia.