Tag: Obstetrics

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Pregnancy and childbirth: What is the most appropriate age to have children?

Physiologically speaking, It is best for women to have children around the age of 20: It is easy to get pregnant, give birth quickly and smoothly, recover quickly after delivery, and have few birth defects. Having children at this age is really like bearing fruit on a tree. As soon as it is ripe, it falls off. However, Women in this age group are often not mature enough in their psychological age, May not have finished their studies, Without a stable job, It is not appropriate to have children so early. On the whole, The more suitable age for giving birth is about 25-28 years old, If for the sake of career development, A few more years will be fine, Read More …

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Pregnancy and childbirth: Routine screening of mother-child ABO blood type incompatibility is not recommended.

Screening for ABO blood group incompatibility between mother and child is not routinely recommended during prenatal examination. The reasons are as follows: 1. There is no direct relationship between the antibody level in mother’s blood and ABO hemolysis of newborn, Therefore, even if anti-A and anti-B antibodies are found in the blood of pregnant women, Nor does it advocate reporting the results. 2. Even if the possibility of fetal hemolysis is suspected during pregnancy, There is no evidence-based medical evidence to prove that drug therapy is effective. 3. ABO hemolysis has few serious consequences. Because after the anti-A and anti-B antibodies enter the fetus, It will combine with various fetal cells, The number of antibodies that actually bind to fetal Read More …

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Pregnancy and childbirth: Drinking Coffee during Pregnancy

In fact, it is misinformed that pregnant women cannot drink coffee on the Internet. Coffee can be drunk, but not in excess. Excessive amount will lead to an increased risk of abortion. What is the amount of safe coffee to drink? Not according to the number of drinks, Because the cups are big and small, Coffee is different. According to American research, When the amount of caffeine in coffee exceeds 200 mg per day, The abortion rate will double. However, the abortion rate will not increase when it does not exceed 200 mg per day. Therefore, You can drink coffee after pregnancy, As long as the total amount of caffeine does not exceed 200 mg. It should also be noted Read More …

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Can women infected with AIDS still give birth to healthy babies?

Answer this question first, HIV-positive mothers can also give birth to normal and healthy babies. The recognized transmission routes of HIV mainly include blood, mother-to-child transmission and sexual transmission. However, mother-to-child transmission often breaks the hearts of the kind public: [Why should newborn children also suffer from this crime? [The so-called mother-to-child transmission of HIV (also known as vertical transmission), Refers to HIV-infected mothers, HIV is transmitted to the fetus/infant during pregnancy, during childbirth and during lactation after pregnancy. Without any intervention measures, The probability of mother-to-child transmission is between 15% and 45%. However, if timely intervention measures are taken before or during pregnancy (described later), the risk of infection can be controlled below 5%, and in some cases it Read More …

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How to scientifically [confinement]

Most Chinese parturients have to have a special [ceremony]-confinement within a few weeks after giving birth. Traditional confinement has many taboos, the most common of which are: keeping warm absolutely and covering your whole body even in summer; Can’t go out or even get out of bed, can’t blow; Can’t wash your face, wash your hair, let alone take a bath or brush your teeth; In terms of diet, we should avoid raw and cold food and eat various [supplements]. Even with modern science and technology, new taboos have been developed that cannot watch TV, mobile phones and so on to avoid hurting eyes. People usually think that the experience handed down from generation to generation must be reasonable. However, Read More …

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You’d better not drive in the second trimester of pregnancy.

Is it safe to drive during pregnancy? According to a report by the US [Fox News] on May 13, a new study published in the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association found that about 2% of pregnant women will have serious car accidents while driving, with the second trimester of pregnancy (4-6 months of pregnancy) being the most dangerous. Dr. Donald Ledmore, an expert at the Institute of Clinical Evaluation Science at the University of Toronto School of Medicine, and his colleagues examined the accidents of more than 500,000 Canadian pregnant women before, during and after pregnancy. After a five-year follow-up survey, the researchers also investigated various factors that led to driving errors and increased the risk of car accidents, Read More …

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In the era of having a second child, older women face what risks in giving birth again?

Since the full liberalization of the two-child policy, the number of women who went to the fertility clinic for consultation has also increased at once. Among the people who came to do consultation, the two kinds of situations are the most, that is, the elderly women (> 35 years old) and the women who have had cesarean section, accounting for more than 80% together. The problem of older age In medicine, pregnant women over 35 years old are called elderly pregnant women. No matter how healthy your body is, no matter how many times you are pregnant, as long as you are over 35, you can be classified as a high-risk pregnant woman! The reason for this division is that Read More …

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Early pregnancy vomited badly? This matter must be taken seriously! Instructions during Pregnancy

When May was pregnant for about 40 days, her appetite began to deteriorate, and she felt nauseous and nauseous when she smelled some smell. At first she didn’t take it seriously. As the old saying goes, “Women have to vomit when they are pregnant, and it will be fine after a period of time.” But slowly, May began to vomit whatever she ate. She was either vomiting or preparing to vomit all day long. The whole person was groggy and lifeless. As the days passed, there was no sign of relief. Husband a Qiang finally succumbed and took May to the hospital. The doctor inquired about the condition in detail, read May’s blood and urine examination report, and directly issued Read More …

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Giving birth to a child may be life-threatening when encountering these seven problems, but dystocia is not necessarily the case.

With the development of modern medicine, it is no longer difficult to have children, and pregnant women do not need to [pass through several jaws of death] to give birth. However, even so, maternal deaths still occur from time to time. According to statistics, about 800 women worldwide die of maternal-related diseases every day. Not long ago, there was a dispute between the Third Hospital of North Medical College and a certain institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Everyone learned the new word [aortic dissection]. Last year, a maternal death case in Xiangtan, Hunan, made the name [amniotic fluid embolism] also popular. As an obstetrician and gynecologist, of course, I don’t want to let everyone know these diseases through bitter Read More …

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Puerperal infection in ancient times killed many mothers who had just given birth…

My friend called me and told me in a hurry that her wife had a high fever after giving birth and asked me to take some what antipyretic. Hearing this, I felt that the problem was not as simple as fever reduction, so I asked him to take his wife to the hospital immediately. Postpartum high fever is probably puerperal infection, which was also called [puerperal fever] in the past. In ancient times, many women passed the death of giving birth to children, but fell on the disease. Until now, puerperal infection is still one of the major causes of maternal death. The occurrence of puerperal infection is related to the physical state of women after delivery: normal women’s vaginal Read More …