Showing posts with label pregnant women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pregnant women. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 December 2010

Pregnant women Can Lead to Skin and Hair Changes

Healthy Tips : Fluctuations in hormone levels and other factors during pregnancy can direct to changes in a woman's skin and hair.

The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists suggests:
  • Darkened areas on the skin, frequently the face and breasts.
  • Ridges in the stomach and abdomen called stretch marks.
  • Thicker hair, hair growth in novel areas, and possible hair loss behind delivery.
  • Spider veins or varicose veins.
  • Itchy red bumps called pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP).

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Thursday, 2 December 2010

5 tips for travelling while pregnant

Being pregnant is a great feeling. Pregnant women’s feel very lucky to carry their beautiful child in their womb. For most women, who have started to undertaking in mood swings, would like to go on a holiday with their partner.




Traveling while pregnant can be unsafe if you take a few safety measures and keep it in mind to avoid dangers as far as possible while being pregnant. Here is the advice for pregnant women on traveling while pregnant.
  1. It is very significant not to travel after 36 weeks of pregnancy. Traveling while pregnant before the third semester will only boost the chances of miscarriage. It will also make you more level to motion sickness.
  2. Before traveling while pregnant, it is safer and better if you get yourself immune to deadly diseases which might be harmful to you and the child inside your womb.
  3. Most important advice for pregnant women is to keep drinking a lot of water, especially if you are roaming by flight. It is said that pregnant women get dried out when they fly due to less humidity level.
  4. Traveling while pregnant can make you feel troubled, so it is important to sit in a seat where you will feel relaxed. If you are traveling by air, book a seat where you have good place to extend your legs. If you are traveling by car, see to it that your legs are not cramp, good circulation of blood flow should be in the legs.
  5. When you are traveling for long distances and for hours and suggestion for pregnant women is to take normal intervals. Do not sit all the time, make sure that you take breaks to walk to the restroom or take a small walk after you eat something more. If you are traveling by car, stop the car for regular intervals and stretch your limbs for good circulation.

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Dental health rework conducted in Wyoming


The primary study into dental health in Wyoming in twenty years has been conducted by the State Health Department.  The study, which was funded by the state, was released on Tuesday and found that the majority of children do not have contact to fluoridated water. Fluoride is additional to the water supply in many countries across the world, as it has been established to improve oral health. Fluoride helps to strengthen the defensive enamel surfaces of the teeth, making them stronger and more resistant to harmful bacteria, which basis decay. The review found that 76 percent of simple schools in the state did not have the recommended concentration of fluoride in the water; children from the schools with the lowest levels were also found to have the worst standards of oral health.
The study also exposed that children who attended rural schools were more likely to go through from dental health problems; dental experts associate poor standards of oral health in rural areas with a lack of dentists in remote towns. Children in rural areas are less likely to be present at regular dental check-ups because there is a extensive lack of dentists in more remote areas.
The findings of the study also indicated that roughly a third of children in the third grade had untreated tooth decay. Pregnant women were also not visiting their dentist on a regular basis and were at risk of oral health problems, which could contribute to complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
The revelations from the study will be used to address issues in the state; it has been suggested that access to fluoridated water supplies should be improved and dentists are keen to promote good oral health amongst children and pregnant women.

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Antibiotics Now suggested Before C-Sections


Pregnant women about to feel a cesarean delivery should be given antibiotics right before the procedure to help prevent infections, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now Advise.
Infection is the most common problem of cesarean deliverance and occurs in 10 percent to 40 percent of women who have the procedure, compared with 1 percent to 3 percent of women who deliver vaginally, according to the college.
Typically, antibiotics were only given after a cesarean delivery because it was believed that if they were given prior to birth, they would make their way into the baby's blood and hold up with newborn lab tests or lead to antibiotic-resistant infections in the newborn.
"Based on the hottest data, prophylactic antibiotics given to pregnant women facing a cesarean significantly reduce maternal infection and do not come out to harm newborns," Dr. William H. Barth, Jr., chair of the ACOG's Committee on Obstetric Practice, said in a college news release.
"We're recommending that all women who undergo cesarean get a preventive course of antibiotics previous to the surgery starts. Ideally, this should happen within 60 minutes of surgery”.
Women who require an emergency cesarean should be given antibiotics as soon as probable, according to the new recommendation.
Still, the proposal would not apply to pregnant women who are already taking antibiotics for another condition, Barth noted.

Monday, 23 August 2010

Over 1,300 swine flu cases last week, protection advised


India persistent to report an increase in swine flu cases, with 79 deaths and over 1,300 new patients in the last week, officials said Monday, emphasising precautions including vaccinations to prevent the sickness.
According to health ministry officials, a total of 1,335 cases of swine flu infection were reported for the period of last week, all of them being indigenous cases of infection.
'Till date, samples from 163,289 persons have been experienced for Influenza A H1N1 in government laboratories and a few private laboratories across the country and 38,730 (23.7 percent) of them have been found positive,' an official declaration from the health ministry said.
The government is temporarily emphasising on preventive measures stressing specifically on the vaccinations. 'The highest number of sufferers is of pregnant women and those suffering from other ailments,' a health ministry official told IANS.
The highest number of deaths (40) was reported from Maharashtra. The state has been reporting the largest number of infections of swine flu for more than a month with the number touching 411 this week. The second leading number of cases were reported from Karnataka which had 291 cases and eight deaths, followed by Delhi which had 257 new cases and five deaths.
The second highest death payment, however, was from Gujarat which reported only 42 cases but 12 deaths in a week. The number of cases stay behind to be high in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu as well with 103 and 72 cases from the two states.
Kerala, which reported the maximum number of cases in the opening of this season of swine flu in the country has, however, stabilised with only nine cases being reported last week. The health ministry official said, Preventative measure is needed and the ministry is doing its best to make the people conscious about the methods to avoid swine flu'.
'We have two local vaccines. In adding to that, ads focusing on target group of the pregnant women and old or ailing persons are also being aired. So far, swine flu has claimed 2,024 lives in India since its outbreak in May last year.