Placenta previa is a condition that affects a small percentage of pregnant people. It involves the abnormal growth and positioning of the placenta, the organ that brings nutrients and oxygen to and takes away waste from the fetus. Read on to learn more about placenta previa, what cau...
Placenta accreta.Typically, the placenta detaches from the uterine wall after childbirth. With placenta accreta, part or all of the placenta remains firmly attached to the uterus. This condition occurs when the blood vessels and other parts of the placenta grow too deeply into the uterine wall. ...
Just like you deliver a baby, the placenta also needs to be delivered. Typically the placenta is delivered within an hour after the baby is born. Most people who deliver vaginally say the placenta is much less intense following the birth of a baby. Just as in the other stages of labor, ...
The symptoms of COVID are the same whether you're pregnant or not. Some people have very mild symptoms, or no symptoms at all. If you do have symptoms, they may include: Fever Cough Shortness of breath (beyond the beyond normalshortness of breathin pregnancy) ...
Why do people eat their placenta? People who support eating the placenta say thatit can raise your energy and breast milk quantity. They also say it can level off your hormones, lowering your chances of postpartum depression and insomnia. Those claims have not been fully tested. ...
As well as the treatment and advice your healthcare provider gives you, here’s what you can do to help control your blood sugar levels and reduce the chance of complications from gestational diabetes: Follow a healthy diet.Although it’s not recommended that pregnant people lose weight, eating...
The multinational collaboration, the Human Cell Atlas, launched in 2016, has analysed more than 90 million cells from more than 11,000 people in an ongoing effort to build 18 different atlases, and published more than 440 studies. Cell ‘atlases’ offer unpre...
Because of the organic brain damage nature of FASDs, stimulants have varying effectiveness when used to treat these symptoms in people with FASDs. Alpha-2-adrenergic agonists: Non-stimulant therapies for ADHD, such asclonidineandguanfacine, may help lessen the “fight or flight” reaction toanxie...
It is really difficult to do this kind of research in people—you can’t ethically inject a person with tiny bits of plastic, for a start. So the researchers looked at cells in a dish. Specifically, they looked at macrophages—a type of white blood cell that kills foreign invaders and ...
“We’re seeing these plastics in people’s brains, and we don’t know 100 per cent what this is doing to someone’s cognition or mental health,” said Fabiano who, in an accompanying interview with Brain Medicine, is described as a “research rising star.” Article content It’s not ...