Tag: "vaginally" at medical news

Watch your weight when pregnant

...ad an average BMI of 53, while women who delivered vaginally weighed an average of 182 pounds and had an average BMI of 31. The researchers also found that the number of women who needed a C-section increased as BMI of a person increased. Among women with a BMI of 20 or less ( which indicates a low amount of ...

Obese women likey for Cesarean

...ad an average BMI of 53, while women who delivered vaginally weighed an average of 182 pounds and had an average BMI of 31. The researchers also found that the number of women who needed a C-section increased as BMI of a person increased. Among women with a BMI of 20 or less ( which indicates a low amount of ...

Watch your weight when pregnant

...ad an average BMI of 53, while women who delivered vaginally weighed an average of 182 pounds and had an average BMI of 31. The researchers also found that the number of women who needed a C-section increased as BMI of a person increased. Among women with a BMI of 20 or less ( which indicates a low amount of ...

Babies Born By C- section At A Greater Risk for Allergies

...erial colonization of the baby’s gut. They suggest vaginally delivered babies acquire those bacteria from the mother, whereas C-section babies acquire bacteria from the hospital environmen....

Vaginal Birth After C-section Dangerous For Both Mother And Baby

...ther doctors have suggested some women can deliver vaginally even if they previously delivered by C-section. This study aimed to see how vaginal birth after a c-section affects mother and child. Thus researchers followed about 46,000 women who had had previous C-sections to see how vaginal birth after a c-sec...

Watch out those of you planning for a predetermined Cesarean Section

...guish between bacterial infection in C-section and vaginally delivered babies. The research has been focused o...fected by the bacterium almost a year earlier than vaginally delivered infants according to the study. The first signs of the bacterium appeared at an average of...

Dermaseptins: Potent vaginal contraceptives

... of contraceptive antimicrobial agents can be used vaginally in effective doses without causing overt vaginal irritation or other toxicity. Antimicrobial peptides are produced by both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and have been the subject of many studies in recent years because of their involvement in hos...

Caesareans In U.S. At All-Time High

.... Also, studies that showed that women who deliver vaginally after having a C-section earlier suffer a ruptured uterus — a potentially lethal complication for both mother and child — in about 1 percent of such cases, worried doctors. Some hospitals have banned vaginal deliveries after C-section, or VBAC. The V...

Concerns About Popular Anti-Ulcer Pill Used For Inducing Labor

...es compared misoprostol administered orally versus vaginally and compared oral misoprostol with vaginal use of the prostaglandin dinoprostone and with intravenous oxytocin. The review concluded that oral misoprostol 'appears to be at least as effective as current methods of induction.' Although the authors f...

Pregnancy and Mode of Delivery May Be A Cause For Pelvic Floor Disorders

... delivery group, 58 percent of those who delivered vaginally did not suffer a pelvic floor disorder at all,” said Lukacz. Lukacz says that there has been controversy about whether it is pregnancy, mode of delivery or age alone that causes the pelvic floor disorders. “Previous studies have argued that there...

C-Section A More Common Choice Nowadays

...ed by C-section after the first had been delivered vaginally while ten years ago this rate was five per cent. Still the doctors allege that as many as two-thirds of these second twin C-sections are "preventable and due to operator inexperience". In spite of UK "great strides" in terms of training and assessm...

A Molecular Condom Against AIDS

...r condom” women could use daily to prevent AIDS by vaginally inserting a liquid// that would turn into a gel-like coating and then, when exposed to semen, return to liquid form and release an antiviral drug. "We have developed a new vaginal gel that we call a molecular condom because it is composed of molecul...

Risk of Hemorrhage Increased in Vaginally Born Babies

... one and five weeks. Sixty-five had been delivered vaginally and 23 had been delivered by cesarean section. ... (26 percent) of the babies who had been delivered vaginally had intracranial hemorrhages (ICH), or small bleeds in and around the brain. Seven infants had two o...

Link Between Childbirth and Stress Incontinence Established

...n due in large part to a concern that giving birth vaginally will lead to a prolapse bladder// and uterus in later life, and the issue has been hotly debated in the medical community. New research from the University of Michigan Health System establishes one of the strongest connections yet discovered betwee...

One-fifth of Obese Women Undergo Caesarean Due to Uterus Failure

...normal weight women. Obese women who gave birth vaginally were also found to encounter other problems in childbirth – more than twice as many (6%) experienced excessive bleeding following delivery compared with normal weight women (3%). This blood loss was also attributed to poor uterine activity in the obe...

C- Section Does Not Affect an Infants Health

...und that 28 percent of children who were delivered vaginally were admitted to the hospital for some reason by the time they were 18 months old. That compared with 23 percent of children delivered by C-section. About half of the C-section group had to visit a doctor for an illness, versus 46 percent of children...

AIDS can Be Prevented by Using Diaphragm During Intercourse

..., dome-shaped rubber disk, a diaphragm is inserted vaginally with a gel to cover the cervix....

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