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I Wonder If an Excess of Vitamins Can Harm My Baby and Me?
The add vitamins and folic acid during pregnancy and indicate that there is an increased requirement for these nutrients during the year.
The fact that you have a balanced diet does not guarantee you receive the required doses for both, using the correct dose prescribed by your doctor not run the risk of hypervitaminosis, depending on the type of vitamin.
For example, excess vitamin A, it can produce teratogenic effects on the fetus
REMEMBER
Maternal nutrition influences fetal growth in women taking vitamin supplements during pregnancy reduce the risk that their children are born very small, both in weight and size, but before taking any supplement, talk with your health health to find out if you need and how to take.
Some supplements may be harmful during pregnancy. In addition, large amounts of some can be risky.
Do not consume vitamins and minerals your health professional has advised you not. Taking large amounts of vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin A, can be dangerous. Do not take more than 6,000 IU (international units) of vitamin A daily.
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Plantar Fasciitis
Running is a very comprehensive and one of the most complete aerobic exercises there, but if we do not properly using the footwear shown we can get a lot of damage in the feet and legs. One of the most common injuries is known as plantar fasciitis, which occurs precisely there, in the sole. A very painful condition more common than we think. Therefore we will stop it.
The plantar fascia is a tissue found on the sole of your foot that runs from the heel to the base of the toes. This fiber is connected to all the bones of the foot and is the one responsible for giving the shape of an arc that characterizes this part. This strip of fabric is coated with a layer of fat that is in charge of absorbing the impact that occurs when walking or running. Therefore it is an area constantly exposed and easy to injure.
As we age, this part of the foot is becoming stiff and loses some of its flexibility, which diminishes the mobility of this area. Therefore increasing the risk of hurting it is higher, since the performance of it to come into contact with the ground is lower. The same applies to the layer of fat that covers it, as more and becomes less dense and becomes thinner, less absorbing the impact caused by striking his foot with the ground. This circumstance is what causes us to hurt us in this part of the foot if we do not appropriate methods, as this area must work to that is always ready.
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Toxemia of pregnancy
Toxemia of pregnancy, more commonly known as preeclampsia is a problem of variable severity that occurs during pregnancy. Its appearance is usually normal during the second trimester of pregnancy, although in some cases can be detected in the first 20 weeks.
Do not know the specific causes of preeclampsia, but there are a number of groups of women at increased risk of suffering such as those with obesity, over 35 years, mothers, multiple pregnancies (twins or more) or history of diabetes and hypertension in the family. Read the rest of this entry »
Pregnancy Reduce Rheumatoid Arthritis-2
The risk, however, increases with age
Women who had had her last child in the last five years were 71 percent less likely to RA than women without children. In contrast, the risk was 24 percent lower in women who had given birth more than 15 years ago.
“The most interesting result was the relationship between the risk of acquiring this disease and the time from birth, particularly how that relationship weakened over time, because it supports our hypothesis that fetal cells, we now know that last decades after birth, would be good for the mother, “said Guthrie.
The team found that 9 percent of the 120 participants who had had a child in the last five years, suffered from Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). So did 14 percent of 345 women who had given birth to between five and 15 years earlier and 17 percent of 805 mothers who were for more than 15 years.
24 percent of the 406 women without children suffering RA. But since the study compared a group of women with RA with a healthy group, those percentages do not reflect women’s risk of RA according to their obstetric history.
Fetal cells and level of protection
The new findings do not prove that having children reduces a woman’s risk of getting AR. But it is possible, “said Guthrie, that fetal cells remain in the mother’s body will provide some level of protection.
These fetal cells are genetically distinct from those of the mother, because half of the genes of the children from the father. And if the cells carry genes that reduce the risk of AR, that could, in theory, change in a woman’s chance of developing the disease.
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Pregnancy Reduce Rheumatoid Arthritis-1
A new study found that women who have a baby would present less risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis than women without children, although this potentially protective effect would disappear with age.
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) arises when the immune system mistakenly attacks the joints of the knees, causing inflammation, pain and progressive joint damage. It is more common in women than in men, and often appears in the reproductive age.
An estimated 1, 3 million American adults, or 0, 6 percent of the adult population has RA.
Some previous studies, but not all, had indicated that pregnancy reduced the risk of RA.
The cause is unknown, but one theory is that fetal cells pass into the mother during pregnancy, help to lower the risk of generating the disease.
A team of researchers from the Cancer Research Center Fred Hutchinson and the University of Washington in Seattle, analyzed the obstetric records of 310 women newly diagnosed with RA and 1418 women without the condition.
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How To Treat Anemia With Healthy foods
Treatment of anemia depends on the type, cause and severity of the disease. Treatments may include dietary changes, nutritional supplements, medicines or procedures.
Treatment Goals
The goal is to increase the amount of oxygen that blood can carry. Is achieved by increasing the number of red blood cells or hemoglobin. Another goal is to treat the underlying condition or the cause of anemia.
Changes in diet and nutritional supplements
Low levels of vitamins or iron in the body can cause some types of anemia. These low concentrations can be caused by poor diet or certain diseases or health problems.
To increase the concentrations of vitamins or iron the doctor may ask you to make changes to your diet or take vitamins or iron supplements. A widely used vitamin supplements are vitamin B12 and folic acid. Sometimes there is vitamin C to help the body absorb iron.
Iron
Your body needs iron to produce hemoglobin. The body can more easily absorb iron from meat than vegetables or other foods. To treat anemia, the doctor may recommend eating more meat (especially red meat such as beef and liver), as well as chicken, turkey, pork, fish and seafood.
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What is Anemia?
It is the decreased concentration of hemoglobin in the blood. This parameter is not a fixed value but depends on various factors such as age, sex, and special circumstances such as pregnancy.
How do you get?
Anemia can be due to different reasons and they relate very well with the variations in shape and size of red blood.
This size is different depending on the producing cause of anemia. The size of the G.R. is determined by an analytical parameter called Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV).
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What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs as a result of problems in the production and supply of insulin in the body. This hormone is produced in the pancreas and helps the “sugar” (glucose) to leave the bloodstream to enter body cells to be used as an energy source.
It may be the case that the body does not produce enough insulin, which is when the diabetes is type 1, or can not use it produces, that is when there is type 2 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes, which is also known as insulin dependent diabetes, immune or juvenile home, is the result of an autoimmune reaction, in which the body’s defense system attacks insulin-producing cells. People with this type of diabetes produce very little or no insulin injections they need every day and thus control the blood glucose levels. Type 1 diabetes can affect people of any age but usually occurs mainly in children or young adults.
Nicotine Patches and Gum Would Be Safe in Pregnancy
The patches and nicotine gum in pregnant women appear to be safe, a new study.
These patches and gum help adults showed generally quit. But women and obstetricians have had doubts about its safety and effectiveness in pregnancy.
The team of Dr. Swamy, Medical Center of Duke University in North Carolina, reviewed data on pregnant smokers who had participated in a comparative study of psychological therapy with nicotine patches or gum for smoking cessation.
It’s use tripled the number of women who quit (from 8 to 24 percent).
Diabetes and Pregnancy
During normal pregnancy metabolic adaptations occur, aimed at correcting the imbalance that occurs when you need a higher nutritive supply to the fetus. One of these imbalances is that the body needs more insulin delivery to require a greater use of glucose.
Clear evidence of this shift is experienced by all pregnant women, who usually notice the morning the unpleasant symptoms of hypoglycemia: nausea, drowsiness, tiredness, weakness, etc..