It is generally indicated in acute or recent cases occurring in young persons, especially girls, of a full, plethoric habit who lead a sedentary life; persons easily affected by atmospheric changes; dark hair and eyes, rigid muscular fibre.
Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy. Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus; metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis.
A lady consulted for high blood pressure (140/98 mm Hg at the time of consultation) soon after first Cesarean delivery. She had been diagnosed with this trouble in her last trimester during a routine pregnancy check up. She did not feel any trouble at all- neither then nor now.
If a pregnant woman’s waters break too early, her unborn baby can be put in danger of complications. The risk of this happening, however, may be reduced if she takes daily supplements of vitamin C after the half-way point of pregnancy, researchers now report.
Ginger appears to help pregnant women who suffer from morning sickness, without side effects to the unborn child, according to a review of the medical literature.
Hundreds of millions of women and children have no access to potentially life-saving care with often fatal results, the World Health Organization (WHO) says in a report published. The report says the resulting death toll could be sharply reduced through wider use of key interventions and a “continuum of care” approach for mother and child that begins before pregnancy and extends through childbirth and into the baby’s childhood.
The proportion of U.S. women who develop diabetes during pregnancy — that is, gestational diabetes — appears to be increasing, which may be a reflection of the well-documented obesity epidemic, researchers from Denver report.
Acupuncture and exercise can help relieve pelvic pain during pregnancy, Swedish researchers said.
Infertility is the inability to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months of unprotected intercourse. Primary infertility is the term used to describe a couple that has never been able to conceive a pregnancy, after at least 1 year of unprotected intercourse. The term secondary infertility describes couples who have previously been pregnant at least once, but have not been able to achieve another pregnancy. (Barren; Inability to conceive; Unable to get pregnant)
While women who take vitamin E during pregnancy seem to lower their offspring’s risk of asthma in early childhood, intake of vitamin C may actually raise the risk, according to a recent study by Scottish researchers.