Women Health

Women’s reproductive health refers to the health conditions and diseases that can have an effect on the female reproductive system. This system plays an essential role in a woman’s life. It includes the following organs: Uterus is hallow, pear-shaped organ where fertilized egg can develop into a baby. The narrow end of the uterus is [...]

Breastfeeding is the feeding of an infant or young child with milk from a woman’s breasts. The milk from women’s breast is known as breast milk. Generally, if you have given birth to a child for the first time, then breastfeeding will be uncomfortable for you in the beginning. Start breastfeeding as soon as your [...]

Urinary incontinence is also known as overactive bladder. It refers to the inability to control urine in the bladder. In other words, it is a condition with uncontrollable loss of urine. Urinary incontinence is of four types: stress incontinence, urge incontinence, overflow incontinence, and functional incontinence. The stress incontinence is the most common urinary incontinence [...]

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is one of the most common causes of sexually transmitted infection (STI) in these days. The examples of sexual transmitted diseases are gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia and so on. It has been found that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 6.2 million new cases of sexually transmitted [...]

Post traumatic stress disorder, in short PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that can develop after a traumatic event that you come across. The traumatic event can be horrible and scary situation where you feel extreme fear, or helplessness. The reasons for post traumatic stress disorder can include natural disaster (fire, flood or earthquake), fighting in [...]

Menorrhagia is a medical condition that refers to heavy menstrual bleeding. It is a common condition that women will undergo at some point throughout their lives. This condition is also known as hypermenorrhea. Heavy menstrual bleeding in this condition refers to excessive flow and duration of the bleeding at regular intervals of your menstrual cycle. [...]

Usually, the majority of the cysts exhibit no symptoms because the ovarian cyst is small and benign. The majority of ovarian cyst symptoms are undamaging. However, if the cyst grows and becomes larger then you may notice several symptoms depending upon where the cyst is sited. It has been found that about 10% of women [...]

Trichomoniasis, also called “trick,” is a sexually transmitted disease caused by a parasite. The sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) are infections that can be spread through sexual contact. More than twenty different STDs have been identified. Some of these STDs are chlamydia, syphilis [Syphilis treatment], gonorrhea, genital warts, genital herpes [Genital herpes symptoms], HIV/AIDS and so [...]

Night sweats, also known as nocturnal hyperhidrosis, is a menopause symptom that almost all women will suffer before, during or after menopause. It is a common perspiration disorder that occurs when a warm sensation causes your body to perspire. So, it refers to any excess sweating occurring from the body during the night. As you [...]

A miscarriage is the loss of the embryo before twenty weeks of pregnancy. It is a terrible shock that occurs in one out of every five pregnancies. When you fear that your pregnancy is at risk for a miscarriage, then here are some miscarriage signs that you need to be aware of. In general, there [...]