Archive for August, 2007

Giving birth to a child is a wonderful experience to any female.

Sadly, there are women who suffer from infertility problems.

Infertility refers to the inability of a person to conceive a child through sexual intercourse.

It is a condition that occurs in one out of every six women. However, previously, infertility was thought to be due to female factors.

Today, with the advancements in the medical sciences, it is evident that female infertility accounts only 40% of all infertility cases. Moreover, the most common reasons behind female infertility are blocked fallopian tubes, ovulation problems, and endometriosis.

There are several infertility treatment options available today. Acupuncture is one among the infertility treatment options that offers non-drug solutions.

Even though there are people who still believe acupuncture to be more rubbish and ineffective than anything derived from scientific fact, it is the area of the treatment of infertility that acupuncture has seemed to gain the most acceptance among the disbelievers.

Acupuncture is used especially in infertility treatment where the cause is functional rather than structural. Functional infertility is a condition where the cause is rooted more in either a hormonal or emotional problem where as structural infertility is a condition such as a blocked fallopian tube.

Hepatitis refers to an inflammation of the liver, a major part of your body that helps digest food, store energy, and also remove toxins.

Hepatitis is a sexually transmitted disease that can spread through sexual intercourse with an infected person.

The other sexually transmitted diseases are syphilis, bacterial vaginosis, chlamydia, HPV virus, warts, trichomoniasis and so on.

Infectious organisms including virus, bacteria, fungus, and parasite usually cause hepatitis.

Liver injury caused by a toxin, attacks on the liver by immune system, drugs, alcohol, tattoos, unprotected sex, and body piercing can lead to hepatitis.

From recent researches conducted by scientists, it is found that not more than five viruses can cause hepatitis. The viruses of hepatitis include hepatitis A, B, C, D and E. All these are very serious and can damage your liver severely. It also causes cancer.

Usually, you exhibit no signs of hepatitis. If you develop any, then it includes loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dark-colored urine and pale bowel movements, stomach pain, jaundice, yellowing of skin and eyes.

You can help prevent some of these hepatitis viral types through vaccine. Occasionally, hepatitis vanishes by itself without any vaccine or treatment. If not, then the treatment can be done using drugs. In rare cases, it lasts for a lifetime.

Coronary Heart Disease, in short CHD, is the most common type of heart disease that usually occurs by narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart.

It is found that, in United States, about seven million people suffer from coronary heart disease and more than half a million die with heart attacks caused by CHD.

As coronary heart disease is the result of atherosclerosis, the build up of fatty “plaque” in the inner lining of an artery, which in turn causes a narrowing and blocking of the blood flow to the heart.

So, keeping the arteries free from fatty plaque is essential in preventing coronary heart disease.

There are several factors that can increase your risk of developing coronary heart disease. Hereditary is a common factor that increases your chances of developing CHD if someone in your family developed this condition, particularly before they reached fifty.

The possibility of having coronary heart disease also increases if you have high blood pressure or diabetes.

The possibility also increases if you are obese or with inadequate physical activities, or if you have high bad cholesterol and very little good cholesterol in your blood. Smoking is also among the risk factors that develop coronary heart disease.

Ovarian cancer usually attacks your ovaries first.

Ovarian cancer treatment depends on several factors such as cancer type, stage of your cancer, age and overall health condition, family planning and personal preference.

So, understand the risks and the possible side effects of each treatment option before you prefer the one for your ovarian cancer treatment.

Ovarian cancer is of three types: epithelial, germ cell, and stromal [Detecting the type of ovarian cancer]. These types can be treated through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Occasionally, your doctor may recommend a combination of these treatment options.

Surgery

The most common ovarian cancer treatment option is surgery. Your doctor may recommend you for surgery if you are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Surgery is used to remove cancerous cells as much as possible.

However, there are different types of surgeries for ovarian cancer. Remember that the name of the surgery depends on the organ that is removed and it always ends with ‘ectomy.’

A surgical procedure used to remove uterus is known as hysterectomy. During this surgery, if uterus is removed through vagina then it is known as vaginal hysterectomy.

Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) basically refers to problems with sex.

The problems may relate to a decrease in sex drive, a strong aversion in sexual activities, trouble in becoming aroused, lack of ability to reach orgasm, reduced blood flow to the vagina or pain with sexual intercourse.

In other words, the disorders associated with female sexual dysfunction are: hypoactive sexual disorder, sexual aversion disorder, sexual arousal disorder, female orgasm disorder, vaginismus and dyspareunia.

Sexual act is very intricate and is related to the neurologic, vascular, and endocrine systems. It is estimated that about eighty four million women are with female sexual dysfunction.

Sexual dysfunction in woman is very common. It is an age-related problem affecting nearly forty percent of all women (globally). Several factors are interconnected to cause female sexual dysfunction.

The factors that cause sexual dysfunction are: Diabetes, arthritis, vaginal atrophy, cancers like cervical cancer and ovarian cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders, urinary problems, headaches, high cholesterol levels, hypertension, smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse and gynecological diseases.

The side effects of specific medications (blood pressure drugs and antidepressants) can lead to reduced sex drive and sex performance.

You have been told that your skin rashes resemble lupus disease, where there is no cure.

Despite of the fact that there is no known cure for lupus disease, you have many treatments that give relief from lupus symptoms.

Lupus is a widespread and chronic autoimmune disease that mostly affects women.

If you are suffering with lupus disease, then it causes your immune system to turn against the body’s own cells, tissue, and organs. Immune system produces antibodies to fight against bacteria, viruses and other foreign organisms that cause infection.

It is fact that with the lupus disease, your immune system loses the ability to differentiate the foreign substances with the body’s own cells, organs as well as tissues and produces antibodies that attacks the body’s healthy tissue where inflammation and damages occurs to vital organs such as skin, joints, blood, heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain.

The reality is that lupus disease symptoms vary from person to person. No two people with lupus disease exhibit same symptoms.

The most common lupus symptoms are: skin rashes, achy joints, strange fever, arthritis, prolonged fatigue, anemia, swollen ankles, chest pain upon deep breathing, skin rashes across cheeks and nose sensitivity to sun, hair loss, abnormal blood clotting, pale or purple fingers, seizures, mouth ulcers.

HRT stands for Hormone Replacement Therapy. It is a highly popular medical regimen that contains one or more female hormones.

The hormones usually include estrogen and synthetic form of the hormone progesterone, also called progestin.

HRT is also known as Hormone Therapy (HT). HRT is usually available in a variety of forms: pills, patches, and vaginal creams.

The hormone therapy involving estrogen only, known as estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) and can be taken by menopausal women.

Mostly, it is prescribed to women who have lost their uterus due to surgical menopause [HRT for menopause]. As there will be no uterus present, the need for progesterone is not compulsory.

‘Continuous’ combined hormone replacement therapy, a most common type of HRT, involves both estrogen and progesterone. Mostly, it is used to prevent the overgrowth of uterine lining.

During this therapy, estrogen will be taken one for each day regularly, while progesterone will be taken on a supplementary basis.

However, irregular bleeding may occur in the beginning of this medication, or moving to this medication from other course of medication. Over eight million women are presently using this combination HRT. It is designed particularly for women who have a uterus.

No Cure For HPV Infections! Gardasil – A HPV Vaccine To Help Prevent HPV Infections.

Being infected with a genital HPV infection, such as genital warts, cervical cancer, and looking for an HPV cure, then you will be having some disappointment, as there is no cure for HPV infection.

However, there are treatments for the infections caused by HPV virus, and now there is a HPV vaccine, a vaccine that targets specific sexually transmitted types of human papilloma virus, available for prevention.

Although researchers have been working hard in developing a vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV), it wasn’t until very recently that an HPV vaccine was granted approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be used in the treatment of HPV.

With the introduction and approval of the HPV vaccine, many women like you have assured that the chances of developing this serious form of HPV infection will be decreased.

HPV is short for the Human Papilloma Virus. It is a Sexually Transmitted Infection affecting most of the women today. The other Sexual Transmitted Infections are gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia and so on.

It can spread through direct skin-to-skin contact during oral, genital, or anal sex with an infected person.