Infant stress, teen emotionality

An early stressful environment during a baby girl’s first year can be link to altered brain behavior and signs of anxiety in her late teens.

 A study, led by some scientists of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which involved pregnant women in southern Wisconsin, showed that women who reported higher stress levels created a more stressful situation for their baby.

These women reported every stressful situation they were into during the first years of their babies, four and a half years later, daughters whose moms reported higher levels of stress had more of the stress hormone cortisol in their blood. That observation suggests the girls had trouble shutting down a hyperactive stress response. The same effect wasn’t found in boys.

Fourteen years later, effects of that high cortisol also turned up in the daughters’ brains, as brain scans revealed, the behavior of two brain regions involved in regulating emotions (the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala) were out of sync in women who had high cortisol levels as children, and this resulted into a bad reaction when confronting emotional problems and anxiety.

So now it makes sense when old people say that pregnant women don’t have be under pressure otherwise the baby will feel it and based on this study we can now demand to be treated as queens for our baby’s good. 

Menstrual Cramps May Be Relieved Thanks To Vitamin E

According to a study published in The British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Vitamin E may be helpful to relieve menstrual cramps and decreasing blood loss during menstruation.

In one hand, we have Vitamin E which is a group of 8 fat-soluble vitamins which help prevent oxidative stress to the body, and other vitamins within the body. Dysmenorrhea, on the other hand, is the term that describes painful menstruations, and they affect almost 50% of women.

Here is a video that gives more details about dysmenorrhea:

This pain is usually located in the lower abdomen area and can radiate to the lower back and inner thighs. Women with dysmenorrhea may also experience diarrhea, headaches, nausea, breast tenderness, and bloating.

In the study, pain was significantly less and of shorter duration among the women in the Vitamin E group at two and four months than among the women in the placebo group. Women in the Vitamin E group also lost significantly less blood than women in the placebo group. There were no significant side effects associated with vitamin E treatment.

But do you know what foods are high in Vitamin E? According to Health Aliciousness, some of them are sunflower seeds, almonds, peanuts and dried herbs.

If you are a girl, how have you dealed with menstrual cramps? And after reading about dysmenorrhea and Vitamin E, will you consider the importance of this vitamin in your organism? If you are a boy, would you tell your female friends, mother, sisters, and others that Vitamin E may relieve their menstrual cramps?

Use Misoprostol to end with your pregnancy!

Misoprostol, according to the webpage thefreedictionary.com, is a synthetic PROSTAGLANDIN E₁ analogue used to treat gastric irritation resulting from long-term therapy with NONSTEROIDAL ANTIINFLAMMATORY DRUGS (drugs used to treat a variety of painful conditions, including arthritis, and cancer). By itself, or in combination with Mifepriston, it causes abortion. 

Misoprostol causes several contractions of the womb, and as a result of this, the uterus breaks, expelling the baby and finishing with the pregnancy. The effects of taking this drug include: painful cramps, vaginal blood loss that is more than a normal menstruation, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea (taken from womenonwaves.org)

The following video shows how Misoprostol works, and the risks of taking it:

This pill can be bought in pharmacies without a prescription, and it is available online.

As you could notice there are several problems related to this drug:

1. It can end with pregnancy in countries where abortion is illegal.

2 Misoprostol is easy to get, which increases the danger that teenagers consume this product, putting in risk their lives.

3.Women can have a miscarriage without their permission. How? Everyone has access to Misoprostol, so someone could give it to you (without knowing what you’re consuming) and cause a miscarriage.

Misoprostol causes abortion, and anyone can have access to it. Are you ok with this? Should authorities do something about it? Should they forbid the production of this drug? Could you mention another problem related to Misoprostol?

Painkillers & Hearing Loss Among Women

A headache or a back pain are some of the reasons why most people take painkillers—ibuprofen, paracetamol, and others—without knowing the consequences that this simple but risky decision may have, in this case, for women.

According to a recent study made by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, United States, in which 62.000 women between 31 and 48 years old were surveyed, the ones who took two or more of these pills per week had more chances to develop a hearing loss than women who took only one painkiller per week.

Women were monitored for over twenty years: for the first fourteen years there was not any sign of hearing loss, but by the end of the study, around one in six women had shown some degree of hearing loss.

The reasons why certain painkillers have this side effect and how the chemicals in the drugs affect hearing are still unknown by scientists. However, it is thought that hearing loss is related to reduced blood flow produced by the anti-inflammatory properties of painkillers.

It is important to mention that not all painkillers are associated with hearing loss: the study made by Brigham and Women's Hospital (which is going to be published in American Journal of Epidemiology with the name "Analgesic Use and the Risk of Hearing Loss in Women”) proved that aspirin, for example, did not have the same effect as ibuprofen or paracetamol.

Many of us have gotten used to taking painkillers to get rid of headaches, back pains and even sore throats. Also, there are other people who abuse of painkillers and use them as the only way out of their pains. But are we aware of the risks that the use (and abuse) of these drugs may have?