Archive for September, 2007

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 become older, your body begins to change dramatically and the ovaries will no longer produce eggs. This is known as menopause stage.

In this stage, you come across some menopause symptoms such as insomnia, hot flashes, mood swings, depression, and night sweats.

Night sweats occur due to fluctuation in estrogen levels. The good news is that nocturnal hyperhidrosis can be dealt successfully. Most of the experts believe that night sweats are due to the reduction of hormones as well as a rise in FSH and LH hormones.

As hot flashes and night sweats are similar, the treatment for night sweats also applies to hot flashes. In general, what happens is you will experience devastating hot flashes, which then leads to the nocturnal hyperhidrosis effect.

To stop the occurrence of night sweats naturally, you need to follow a few things to reduce its frequency and intensity.

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 will be no sign if you miscarry in the first ten weeks of your pregnancy.

However, there are certain miscarriage signs indicating that something is wrong.

The most common signs are vaginal bleeding and cramping. Vaginal bleeding may be light or heavy, constant or irregular. Bleeding with pain is a sign that is more expected to the occurrence of miscarriage.

However, some cramping is quite common in early pregnancy. It is not certain that bleeding and cramping during pregnancy leads to miscarriage but there is a possibility.

There are many women who experience bleeding in their first trimester and go on to healthy pregnancies. However, it is highly recommended to consult your doctor immediately if you find any miscarriage sign.

Also remember that there are several miscarriage signs that are not always a sign of miscarriage such as spotting and vaginal bleeding, which are normal occurrence during pregnancy.

It is fact that there is no cure exists for endometriosis. However, you should not despair of an endometriosis treatment.

There are several treatment options available to treat your endometriosis, which ranges from simple observation to surgery.

While planning for an endometriosis treatment course, a number of factors will be taken into consideration.

The treatment depends on the severity of the symptoms, family history and your desire for a baby, and the extent of the disease.

One of the main objectives of gynecologists or health care providers administering endometriosis treatment is to disperse myths and encourage the patient to seek proper care.

If your endometriosis is very mild, then the endometriosis treatment involves nothing more than simple visits to the doctor where he/she, a general practitioner or a gynecologist, will perform regular checkups.

However, if your endometriosis pain is severe enough then medications such as ibuprofen may be prescribed. If your symptoms progress further, then it becomes necessary to discuss the possibility of more complex treatments.

One of these endometriosis treatments that exceed simple observation and checkups is hormone treatment. Hormone replacement therapy is used because it provides effective results in the treatment of certain symptoms.

You have any itching or pain in the genital area? Then suspect this with genital wart symptom.

Usually genital warts exhibit no symptoms. Some genital wart symptoms don’t actually manifest themselves in a manner in which you will recognize them.

Genital wart symptoms, in some cases, are so small and flat that they are invisible to the human eye (called sub-clinical); however, others have a cauliflower look that actually is a group of warts.

From the recent researches by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), it is been found that about 50% of women with HPV have no evident genital wart symptoms.

However, in some cases, there will be small, hard spots (easily visible to the eye) that develops within 3-12 weeks after exposure.

Before going to actual genital wart symptoms, it is essential to know some information about genital warts.

Genital warts are one of the most common forms of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) caused by a virus called human papilloma virus (HPV). The other sexually transmitted diseases are gonorrhea [Gonorrhea Symptoms], syphilis, herpes and so on.

Type1 diabetes is a chronic health condition that occurs due to the inability of the pancreas in producing sufficient insulin for controlling the glucose levels in the blood.

Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to help glucose enter the body cells and used as energy for the cells.

Without insulin, the glucose can’t enter the cells and remains in the blood.

With the increase in the glucose levels, there can be damages to the internal parts of the body. Thus, it is known as insulin-dependent diabetes.

Type1 diabetes is also known as juvenile diabetes, as it develops mostly in children and adolescents. However, there is a chance of developing at any age. The other names of type1 diabetes are brittle diabetes, and childhood diabetes.

It is found that, in the United States, one out of every eight hundred have insulin-dependent diabetes. Over 700,000 Americans have type1 diabetes and 5-10% of these are diagnosed with insulin-dependent diabetes.

Insulin-dependent diabetes is of two kinds: idiopathic type1 diabetes and immune-mediated diabetes.

An immune-mediated diabetes is most common autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system damages the pancreas that generate insulin for controlling glucose levels whereas idiopathic type of insulin-dependent diabetes is a rare type with no cause for its development.

Abortion is a process of ending a pregnancy with the intention that it does not result in the birth of a child.

Before gaining knowledge about abortion, it is better to know abortion facts.

It is estimated that approximately 46 Million abortions takes place every year worldwide.

Out of which, yearly, 26 million women have legal abortions.

The rate of abortions in developing countries will be around seventy-eight percent.

According to the abortion facts, it is found that 1.3 million women are having abortions in the United States every year. And about three thousand seven hundred abortions take place per day.

According to abortion facts, it is estimated that forty-three percent of all women will have at least one abortion in their lifetime. According to abortion facts, it is found that abortion has not always been so safe.

Previously, it was illegal in almost all countries and most of the women who obtained abortion had died or suffered with serious medical complications such as damage of the uterus, retained placentas, heavy bleeding, cervical wounds, uncontrolled infections, poisoning, shock, and gangrene as a result.

Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is also known as Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma.

It is a very rare and aggressive type of breast cancer that occurs in a very less percentage of women.

However, the growth of this breast cancer type is very fast that it spreads within weeks.

With this breast cancer type, your breast appears red, swollen and you feel very warm. Normally, it develops as a sheet rather than a solid tumor.

Inflammation in the breasts! The inflammation in the breasts is due to the blockage of the lymphatic vessels in the skin of the breasts by the cancer cells, which in turn leads to an obstruction in lymph flow and reddened, swollen look of the breast.

It is found that, in the United States, 1-3% of recently diagnosed breast cancers are inflammatory breast cancers. This type of breast cancer occurs between the ages of 45-55.

You can detect inflammatory breast cancer at a younger age when compared with other breast cancer types.

As inflammatory breast cancer doesn’t develop lumps in the breasts and with unusual cell growth, the symptoms are not usual signs of cancer.

Bacterial Vaginosis (BV), generally referred to as Gardnerella-associated Vaginitis or just Vaginitis, is an abnormal vaginal condition that results from an overgrowth of one of several bacteria that usually present in the vagina.

Bacterial vaginosis is the most common among three vaginal infections.

The other two vaginal infections are trichomoniasis (a sexually transmitted disease), and the fungal infection commonly known as a yeast infection.

Sexually transmitted diseases are infections that can transmit through sexual intercourse. Some of the sexually transmitted diseases are chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea [Symptoms of Gonorrhea], genital warts, genital herpes [Genital Herpes Symptoms], HIV/AIDS and so on.

Although bacterial vaginosis is considered to be a sexually transmitted disease according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is measured as a mild infection. Moreover, the actual cause of the disease is unknown.

However, from a recent research it is found that women who have very less sexual contacts are rarely affected by bacterial vaginosis and women with multiple sex partners or a new sex partner have an increased risk of developing the infection.

Today, in United States, bacterial vaginosis is the most widespread vaginal infection and according to scientific studies this infection is mostly occurring in women of reproductive age.