Archive for the ‘Women’s Health’ Category
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PREGNANCY CARE OPTIONS AND CAMPAIGNING FOR CHANGE: RADICAL MIDWIVES
Any serious attempt to improve the organisation, efficiency and experience of ante-natal care relies heavily on midwives. Whether it is better community facilities or better care in the hospital, mid-wives are one of the keys to success. Many midwives today feel abused, frustrated and bored. As the Short Committee found, a more interventionist, hospital-based ante-natal [...]
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NON-MEDICAL REASONS FOR HYSTERECTOMY
The continuing debate about whether hysterectomy is overused is an issue of great importance for the many women who will ask themselves at some time in their lives, Ts a hysterectomy really necessary for me?’ The debate has been fuelled by findings of large variations in rates of hysterectomy between and within countries for no [...]
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INFECTIONS AFFECTING FERTILITY: GENERAL UTERINE INFECTIONS, CANDIDA
General Uterine Infections Doctors suspect that infections of the uterus could play a crucial role in very early deliveries (before 32 weeks). Uterine infections accelerate the disintegration of the protective membrane in which the baby is encased. Then, a few weeks after the onset of disintegration, the infections cause the uterus to begin contracting. However, [...]
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EXPLAINING ENDOMETRIOSIS: HERBAL TREATMENT IN ELIMINATION OF TOXIC WASTE AND INHERITED MIASM
Diagnosing problem areas Generally speaking, many women I see do get many of the symptoms reported here. I use iris diagnosis. I find it extremely helpful in cases such as endometriosis. If I suspect there might be irritable bowel syndrome, iris diagnosis will show that and will also show me where the inflammation is. Most [...]
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LESS COMMON FACTORS AFFECTING FERTILITY
The uterus. Some people are born with an unusual uterus, it may be a different shape, which in itself does not always cause a problem (many women have no trouble having babies despite having a double uterus), but it might be a reason why a woman cannot conceive. The uterus may have developed extra swellings [...]
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PREGNANCY: WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE?
Morning sickness. Like some cruel trick of false advertising, this name gives the impression that after feeling queasy in the morning, you are going to be bouncing around as right as rain for the rest of the day. In fact, this sick feeling (nausea) which accompanies pregnancy in more than 50 per cent of women, [...]
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WART VIRUS
The warts people get on their bottoms belong to the same family as the warts I avoided as a child. There are at least fifty different sub-types of the ‘human papilloma virus’ or HPV, the virus responsible for making warts. Some of these sub-types like the genital region, and tend to be found there, rather [...]
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SIDE-EFFECTS OF CONTRACEPTIVE PILL “THE PILL”
The pill’s safe use depends on the careful screening of potential users to exclude “high-risk’ women, and direct them to more suitable forms of contraception. Also, over the years developments have made the pill safer, in particular, recognition of the relationships between age, smoking and high-dose oestrogens. The actual incidence of serious side-effects of the [...]
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FEMALE ANATOMY: PROLACTIN AND MENOPAUSE
Prolactin. Another hormone involved with reproduction is prolactin, which is made in the pituitary gland in the brain. It acts on breast tissue to stimulate milk production during late pregnancy and when a woman is breastfeeding. It also acts to interfere with the usual production of FSH and LH, so ovulation does not tend to [...]