A bacteria in mouth might be responsible for early labour.
Improving your oral hygiene can reduce the risk of early preterm labours. Researchers from Case Western Reserve and Yale Universities found that previously undiscovered bacteria usually found in the mouth could be responsible for up to 80 percent of early preterm labors.
This can help phyicians prevent preterm births by encouraging oral hygiene or prescribing targeted antibiotics.
Average pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks. A birth before 37 weeks is considered preterm. Preterm babies born preterm can suffer from many complications like vision and hearing loss, cerebral palsy, mental retardation. Preterm birth is also an important cause of death in newborn babies. [Read more...]
Astringents are agents which when applied on raw areas, react with tissue proteins to form a protective covering on the surface. These thus help in reducing the pain which accompanies such lesions. The commonly used astringents include:
Itching constitutes the most frequent and also the most troublesome symptom in dermatology. Indeed a large number of patients with skin diseases would not seek medical advice, had they not been bothered about the itching which accompanies the skin lesions.
Diseases associated with a dry skin can be helped by local applications of emollients. These agents form a thin greasy layer on the surface of skin and prevent the evaporation of water from the stratum corneum. The following agents can be used as emollients but these agents should not be used on exudative lesions:
