Women's Health Blog

Women & Incidence of Malignancy:

Women are more prone to suffer cancer of the reproductive organs, which includes the breast also. It is necessary that breast should be regularly self examined and if any irregularly observed it should be brought to the notice of the doctor for further investigation to rule out malignancy of the breasts and if confirmed the treatment my be started immediately with regular follow ups.

Self Examination of breasts:

Most probably malignancy of breasts are associated with presence of hard tissue. Tumors may not be exactly as described, there may be variations in description. Any variance felt by you, requires examination and investigation by a doctor. Although a normal mammogram is reported, if there is tissue hardness it needs to be further evaluated, to completely rule out a cancer possibility.

• Standing facing the mirror with arms at sides. Observe any change of size, breast contours, or color of skin of breasts, or any differentiating surface appearance. Look for any discharge taking place. A blood like discharge requires further investigation by the doctor immediately.

• Hold your hands firmly behind your head and observe the changes in the mirror in respect of size, shape of breasts. Now keep your hands on the hips and bend forward and observe any change in the breast structure.

• Lye down on your back on the bed, which provides an easy approach to examine undersides of breasts and the breasts are spread naturally support less now abnormalities can be felt more precisely with comfort.

• Keeping your left hand behind head, by using the three middle fingers of right hand experience presence of hard mass beneath skin of left breast. Make little circular movements and now begin below left collarbone, put pressure of fingers in a small area comprising a quarter of the area of breast and feel the underlying structures for any hard stuff superficially or deeper inside breast tissues to look for something differing in general consistency of the breast in any manner. Similar checks can be made in the rest of breast also

Presence of Hard Tissue in Breasts:

It is quite normal for breasts having some hard tissue in breasts, or for one to be slightly larger or lower than the other.

Make an appointment with your doctor if you do come across something that seems atypical. If what you’ve noticed is indeed suspect. A pathologist doctor shall help the lady by removing a small suspected tissue and have it analysed to rule out presence of cancer. There should be no delay and good news is that more than 80 % chances are there is no cancer involvement, it can be a harmless benign tumour. The surgeon can safely remove it by a small operation.

After the age of 40 women should have their breasts mammography investigations done every year. Women are having a high risk of breast cancer. Besides annual mammography, women likely to have a risk of breast cancer should get magnetic resonance imaging.

Pregnancy is very tricky it happens, when one does not want and does not happen when one desperately tries to get pregnant. So planning is a bit out of reach most of the times. When the woman after 4 to 5 years period of marriage fails to conceive, it becomes mandatory that medical help available should be sought.

Dial a Help:

Simple to complex methods are available like intrauterine insemination, hormone therapy for both the husband and lady after ultrasound investigation of the lady and sperm count and motility of the sperms, which can be determined by laboratory checkup of the semen sample.

About 20 years ago ‘test tube baby’ was hot news, now it is a reality. If other methods available fail, one can try test tube baby to at least have a baby to leave as your heir. The procedure is called in vitro fertilization, the objective is to get the egg fertilized in the laboratory and then to implant in the uterus. Hormone therapy is given to increase the success rate of pregnancy. The initial procedure has been improved upon and called Assisted Reproductive Technology. This new technology has successfully employed on a large scale.

The Success Button:

There is relatively better success rate in the procedures being practiced. Depending on the individual couple age and other favorable factors, there are evidences of success in the application of procedures.

Obese Mother & Child Health:

There are reports that child born to obese mothers are likely to have major birth defects as compared to child born to mothers having standard weight as per the Age height relation chart. Hence it is necessary that mother’s panning for a pregnancy should shed their excess weight as a pre-pregnancy measure.

Over weight Women have an increased risk during delivery of the child endangering the life of the child or mother.

It is an established fact that pregnancy related to obesity, can have many diseases affecting the health of the woman during the pregnancy period like Diabetes, high blood pressure, increase in blood clot in the vessels, increased viscosity of blood etc. I t is well known fact that obesity in pregnancy can lead to pregnancy related diabetes, high blood pressure, an increased risk of blood clots, a higher risk of infection and a risky Cesarean Operation.

Obese Mothers & Child at Birth Risks:

Child born to obese mothers have a tendency to have a large size causing difficulty in normal delivery often results into their death on birth.

An obese mother gives birth to child with birth defects like ill formed neural tube, spina bifida, various heart defects, cleft in the lip and palate, and defects of brain development. Birth defects are responsible birth of a dead fetus or death of the infant shortly after birth.

Birth Related Diseases:

One of the possible causes of birth defects in obese mothers is undiagnosed diabetes in them.

The Second Next possible reason can be nutritional deficiency during pregnancy like deficiency of folic acid. It is difficult to have a proper ultrasound image of an obese woman and in early pregnancy period fetal abnormality can not be determined.

Pregnancy requires that the pregnant lady should have best Physical and Emotional condition before conception. To achieve this, the lady should take nutritious food, keep the weight under check. Pregnancy counseling should always be availed and be careful about nutrition and weight under check.