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Women Suffering from Adnexal Torsion

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Women suffering from adnexal torsion experience severe pain. Oftentimes, the only remedy is to remove the ovary and fallopian tube making it impossible to have a child. What Is Adnexal Torsion? Adnexal torsion is an ...

Why Women Get Polyps of the Cervix

By James Pendergraf · 14 years ago

Polyp is the medical and technical term used to describe a benign growth protruding from any mucus membrane in the human body. Polyps can emerge from one’s nose and sinuses (called as the nasal polyps), ...

Understanding Skene's Duct Cysts in Women

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Understanding an illness is the first step towards conquering it. A woman needs to know the symptoms, effects, and treatment of an illness she’s afflicted with. Cysts in the reproductive system of women are one ...

Non-cancerous Gynecologic Abnormalities in Women

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Non-cancerous gynecologic abnormalities are defects in the reproductive system of women. These defects in the vagina, cervix, uterus, or ovaries are benign or not virulent. They are the following conditions: Cysts like Bartholin’s glands cyst, ...

Diagnosing Gynecologic Disorders in Women

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Diagnosing gynecologic disorders starts with obtaining a gynecologic history through interview. This then may be followed by performing one or more of the different methods of diagnosing. The different methods of diagnosing gynecologic disorders include ...

Labor and Delivery Complications

By James S Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Normally, labor and delivery happen without any complications and problems. Serious complication and delivery problems happen rarely, while other occurrences are anticipated and can be effectively treated. Problems with labor and delivery however sometimes come ...

Delivery Procedures: What to Expect

By James S Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Delivery is basically a procedure that a pregnant woman undertakes in order to dismiss the child on her womb. It could be conducted through a normal delivery procedure or the caesarian method. Both procedures need ...

All about Thyroid Disorders after Delivery

By James S Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Thyroid disorders are various conditions that generally involve damaged thyroid glands. The complications arising from thyroid disorders make treatments of the disorders very difficult. In all cases, the treatments depend on the severity of the ...

Urine Test and Preeclampsia in Pregnancy

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Preeclampsia is the medical term used to refer to the condition of having high blood pressure and excessive protein. The disorder is only one of four high blood pressure illnesses that pregnant women may suffer ...

Undergoing a C-Section Delivery

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

The birthing process and method of delivery of a mother would usually depend upon her choice and sometimes as a couple. With this, it matters where the mother is comfortable in giving birth in and ...

Ultrasound Imaging During Pregnancy

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Nobody has said that pregnancy is easy. However, despite this rather grim assessment of this episode in a woman’s life, being pregnant is filled with joyous expectations of the coming of the family’s new member. ...

The Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Every woman especially within the childbearing age and those who are ready would certainly feel excited to get pregnant as soon as possible. Getting pregnant is a decision both the husband and the wife has ...

Symptoms and Treatment of Pregnancy Hemorrhoids

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

While it is not an exaggeration to say that when a woman is pregnant she is experiencing perhaps the most joyous episode of her life, it is also not wrong to say that pregnancy brings ...

Pregnancy and Eating for Two

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

When a woman is pregnant, one of the sign and symptom during the first trimester, which is the first 3 months of having the fetus, would usually manifest nausea and vomiting. Sometimes there is also ...

How Sleep Affects a Woman’s Fertility

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

The hormonal balance of the woman is highly sensitive to certain factors that may arise. With this, one must consider that these hormones that are commonly referred to as the female sex hormones play a ...

Healthy Food Choices During Pregnancy

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

If one is curious enough, one should be willing to scratch beneath the surface of anything. For one, some of the answers to some of the pressing questions maybe found with a little polishing of ...

Health Recovery after Pregnancy and Delivery

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

Normal Physiology As a woman ages, her body adjusts and prepares itself to accommodate and to prepare her to be able to bear children of her own when the right time comes. With this comes ...

Can a Woman Get Pregnant While Breastfeeding?

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

What is so amazing about people is that when they notice something that preoccupies the perception of people, there is always the risk that facts will be blurred by myth. While it is easy to ...

Breastfeeding Do's and Don'ts

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

A lot of people say that breastfeeding is one of the most natural means to express love between mother and child. Yet despite the consideration that breastfeeding is next to natural, many women still practice ...

Bacterial Vaginosis During Pregnancy

By James Pendergraft · 14 years ago

All that one needs to do is to ask any woman for one to find out just how joyful an episode being pregnant is in a woman’s life. Nonetheless, masked beneath the surface of joy, ...