Tag: Women’s Health

With age, your vagina can become loose and become saggy. Strengthening your vaginal muscles with kegel exercises can change the appearance of your vagina. Wearing tight jeans, being on the bottom during sex, riding bikes, and losing a lot of weight can stretch your vagina. Also, avoid infections by using only mild and unscented soaps to clean your vagina. Maintain good vaginal hygiene so that it stays young.

Birth control pills can negatively impact the gut health creating an imbalance of the good and bad bacteria. They can also affect the insulin sensitivity in healthy women. These pills also make you more prone to inflammatory diseases like Crohn's disease. Discontinuing the pill can cause post-birth control syndrome. Eating healthy, getting enough sleep, and managing stress can help.

Breast implants are a common enough cosmetic procedure, and yet many people go into it without knowing the consequences fully. Your choice of material for implants determines side effects as well as how long the implant will last. Implants can hinder breastfeeding and hide cancers on a mammogram. They do rupture, and they may need follow up surgeries for a lifetime. An increased risk of depression and substance abuse has been found in women after a breast cosmetic surgery.

About 10 percent of women have endometriosis. It develops when endometrial tissue grows outside of the womb, causing extreme pain during periods. Many women mistake it for cramps, so diagnosis is often delayed. A high intake of alcohol and caffeine can increase the risk of endometriosis. It is also linked to a greater risk of skin cancer, autoimmune disease, allergies, heart disease, and ovarian cancer. Studies have shown that acupuncture is an effective way of managing pain.

Nobody can defy age, but we can definitely age gracefully by making simple lifestyle changes and changing the way we think, act and work. Following our passion, keeping our stress levels at bay, a good diet, regular exercise and maintaining ideal health are all factors that help us age gracefully. While there is no one-size-fits-all formula, eating well and getting adequate rest, as well as enjoying our life, are things we can all do.

If you observe soft, painless lumps near the vaginal opening it may indicate a harmless condition called Bartholin's cyst. Skin-colored bumps near the vaginal area may indicate syringoma. When you wax or shave, you may experience ingrown hairs that cause bumps. Pus-filled blisters are a sign of vaginal boils. Skin discoloration may be a sign of a harmless mole.

Those 9 months of longing, to see and hold the baby, get over in a jiffy when your little one is born. You will...

When it comes to women's health, estrogen is one of the most important aspects. When you take into account problems that relate to women,...

The discomfort a woman experience during childbirth is inescapable—but, the question is, is it the good pain or the bad pain that she undergoes...

Urban lifestyle comes with its own set of stressors. And after constant exposure to them day in and day out, our minds and bodies...

Did your last ultrasound session give you a big surprise when the doctor announced that you are having twins? Did you recently get to...

Strokes are caused when a blood clot prevents blood flow to the brain. It is a dangerous occurrence which needs to be treated. In women, it manifests unique symptoms like hallucinations, nausea, and exhaustion. Menopausal women, women who have undergone HRT and hormonal birth control, and overweight women are at risk. You can prevent stroke by maintaining a healthy weight through exercise and diet.

All pregnant women want an easy, smooth, and fast delivery. Most of them make it full term and give birth between 36 and 40...

If you're considering C-section, know that it is major surgery, with greater maternal mortality risk than vaginal births and the possibility of complications in future pregnancies. It even impacts your baby’s ability to breathe just after birth. If you are slated for doctor-recommended C-sections for health reasons, rest assured the choice is the right one. This is because medical condition like diabetes or complications with the placenta or the position of the baby might make a vaginal birth much riskier.

The Zika virus can be transmitted through mosquito bites and sexually. Avoid areas with the virus during pregnancy. Screens, bed nets, and mosquito repellents can protect against mosquitoes. Natural repellents like neem oil, fumigants like citronella oil, and larvicides like the essential oils of sweet flag and sweet basil may also be useful. Also, clear out stagnant water. Condoms and dental dams can help protect you from sexual transmission of the Zika virus.