Showing posts with label ovulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ovulation. Show all posts

11/17/2008

Ovarian dysfunction

A relatively common cause of infertility in women is the hormonal disorders that affect the functioning of the ovaries. It may be that there is no ovulation, or that it is irregular. Detection. Ovulation disorders can be studied by serial transvaginal ultrasound monitoring, control of daily basal temperature, the use of reagents in urine tests (which can be purchased freely in pharmacies), made dosajes hormone (blood) in various stages of the cycle menstrual, endometrial biopsy performed shortly before menstruation or laparoscopy (method by which its complexity is not used routinely for this purpose).

Treatment.
If necessary, it stimulates ovulation using drugs. This technique, which requires great control serial-to-vaginal ultrasound scans, as there is risk of a multiple pregnancy, can only be done by experts.

10/02/2008

Pheromones, natural aphrodisiacs?

Pheromones exist in several species of animals, both vertebrates and invertebrates. They are chemical messengers used for communication between subjects of the same species. This is secretions that act as signal and cause sexual reactions after being tested or smelled.

We can cite as examples the vaginal secretions of the rhesus mona, which have been chemically identified as short-chain aliphatic acids, which are due to sexual stimulation in male of the species. There are also signs that humans emit and react to certain smells.

In this regard it is significant that seek to do away with all our natural body odors and replace by perfumes containing substances such as musk-than in other species serve as a sexual stimulant.

Humans also segregations
Some data tell us that human pheromones also segregated. In our body there is a set of glands called "apocrine" which are considered non-functional.

However, in other species, these glands are linked to the production of pheromones. The foreskin of the male and lips of the vulva of women contain glands that produce secretions fragrant. In an experiment in laboratory samples of vaginal secretions of 50 young women and it was proved that contained aliphatic acids, the same substances that produce sex appeal in the rhesus monkey.

The presence of these acids reached its highest level in the middle part of the female cycle, in the era of increased likelihood of pregnancy. It is interesting to note that the increase of these substances does not occur in women who have suppressed ovulation by the use of oral contraceptives. Demonstrated that the secretion of them is related to ovulation, although we still do not know what is the importance they have in the human species.

On the other hand, a team of British researchers isolated a sex pheromone from the sweat of men. This substance, concentrated, it smells like sandalwood oil, as everyone knows, is often used in perfumes. According to these researchers, pheromones produce an odor that attracts women.

10/01/2008

Diagnostic methods gynecological

Gynecologists resorted to various methods of diagnostic aids in the consultation. Here are some of the employees more often.

Papanicolaou
In the box detailing what the most widespread and all necessary studies being conducted routine gynecologic consultation. Should be done once a year, from the time of onset of sexual relations.

Colposcopy
It is good practice to do next to the PAP. It is used for that purpose a device composed of a binocular and a light source of high intensity. With it you can see injuries at the cervical, vaginal cavity and the vulva.

Hormonal analysis
These studies, which are conducted through a blood-listed when there are disruptions of the menstrual cycle or difficulty achieving pregnancy. The baseline should be obtained by the study during menstruation. On some occasions, requested additional after ovulation. Histerosalpingografía.

This radiograph is performed by injecting a contrast solution into the uterine cavity vaginally. To minimize the inconvenience it may cause, it is desirable to prescribe a mild sedative or an antispasmodic a little earlier. Is to be made after completion of menstruation and before ovulation.

The ability to detect abnormalities of the uterine conformation, as well as drugs and the internal cervical os.

Ultrasonography
Today, it is almost de rigueur to supplement when detected abnormalities or were looking for, for example, to check ovulation. Prefers to be performed by transvaginal route by the largest amount of data it provides. It gives a picture of the uterine cavity, the uterine body and ovaries.

Many gynecologists use the routine in menopausal women, especially if you are obese, as a method of early detection of tumors oval.

Endometrial biopsy
It is performed in the study of the patient sterile. It is used to diagnose ovulation and the quality of the tissue to be implanted into the pregnancy. Is to extract, vaginally, a small sample of tissue from the uterine cavity using a cannula and striving with a syringe or a microcureta.

Cytology (wipers) endometrial
It is used to irregular bleeding (especially at menopause) for the diagnosis of possible tumors. It is done by placing a small vaginal swab inside the uterine cavity.

Laparoscopy
It requires general anesthesia and temporary placement. Place a sort of '' telescope of 50 centimeters and 0.5 centimeters in diameter, with a cold light source that is introduced by a tiny incision in the umbilical scar. Lets see inside the genitals (uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries) and perform multiple operations on them without having to open the abdomen.

3/13/2008

The feminine menstrual cycle

The group of anatomic and functional manifestations that you seceden periodically in the mature, or sexually mature woman's genital feminine apparatus, and that they are destined to favor the playback, they receive the name of genital" "cycle. This cycle, begins the first day of the menstruation and you end the day that precede to the following one. In a normal woman, you have certain regularity and you accustom to last about 28 days; but they should be considered as normal the variances between the 21 and 36 days. This whole cycle turns on the phenomenon of the ovulation in elovario and continuing him varies the uterus constitution, trumpets and vagina cyclically.

The genital cycle is governed and ordered from the brain for two portions of the same calls hypophysis and hipotálamo that mark the rhythm characteristic of each woman and that also, they explain the alterations of the cycle for psychic lawsuits, like they are strong emotions, terror, etc..

The cycle begins the first day of the menstruation. During the first two weeks, the ovary is boosted by the hormones of the hypophysis and you proceed to mature an ovum, of the 400.000 that he/she have in rest; this ovum matures inside a cystic cavity of the ovary, and when your formation is already complete, the cystic cavity or folicular burst and the ovum goes by the trumpets to the uterus. This moment of the rupture, corresponds to the phenomenon called ovulation. Some women know the precise moment of your ovulation, for a discreet pain or blood loss that it are accustomed to preentarse by the middle of the cycle, and that you should be considered normal. Once blank the cystic cavity of the ovary that housed to the ovum, this begins to wrinkle and to withdraw, becoming a spice of xanthic cicatríz of the surface of the ovary, call in fact yellow body. Lastly, this yellow body goes disappearing, with that which you/they will repeat the same phenomena when appearing a new menstruation and a new cycle will begin.

During the whole period, the ovary, excited in turn by the hypophysis, segregates two hormones. A call estrone, during the first half of the cycle, when ovum still exists; another call lutein or hormone of the yellow body, in the second half of the cycle, when the yellow body exists. These ovarian hormones influence in turn on the remainder of the genital apparatus.

In the uterus, during the first fifteen days of the cycle, changes are happened in your wall and in your low structure the influence of the ovarian estrone. Since the uterus is the locus in quo you should nest the egg, your wall you grow and you proliferate, raising your vascularización in the second half of the cycle, under the influence of the hormone of the yellow body or lutein. this wall that previously has proliferated, you are loaded of glucógeno and of nutritious substances for the egg and toward the days 27 or 28 of the month, if you have not had pregnancy, this whole preparedness you are not right of existing and the wall of the uterus that have proliferated and that you have gotten ready, you self-destroy and and you flake, a haemorrhage that are the menstruation taking place. With the result that, when you are necessary of this prepared uterus, because a pregnancy, the descamación has taken place you are not made and you don't show up the menstruation, being of it the very well-known fact that the menstruation ullage in any normal and healthy woman is, in start, pregnancy suspicious character.

The woman's other organs are also influenced by the ovarian hormones; from among they highlight the mammas, in those that an increase of conduits galactóforos can exist getting ready for a possible lactation and suregresión when arriving the menstrual phase. Likewise, the basal temperature ascends in the days of the ovulation some 4 or tenth 5, being arranged around 36,9 - 37º and descending the days before the menstruation. This variance of the basal temperature is used for the birth control or to assure the treatment of dysfunctions of the cycle.

11/29/2007

The Ice cream helps the Fertility in the Woman

Adding to the diet balanced ice cream and other derived products of the milky ones with high content in fat, it can decrease the risk of an infertility type, as he/she says a study carried out in the university of Harvard.
The results of these studies will be recognized since they are of the well-known Nurses Health Study of the Ability of Public Health of Harvard and they were
published on Wednesday in the magazine Human Reproduction.
Investigators found that the women that consumed two or more products milky first floor daily in fat almost had double risk of suffering conception problems for ovulation lack compared the women that ate less than a portion of those products in the week.
In a same way, the women that ate at least a rich milky product in fat a day had a risk 27% but I get off suffering those problems.
The scientists say that the women should not reach conclusions quickly of their results, since they are based on reports of what women affirmed to have consumed during years, not in an experiment where the diets were corroborated rigorously.
"It is not to become crazy and to begin to eat ice cream three times a day", the main author, doctor Jorge Chavarro said, of Harvard.
"But it is certainly possible to have a healthy diet with consumption under of saturated fats and to consume a portion of milky products of high fatty content a day."
"A good dose of scepticism is good for people",
but that anything when the results are so difficult of believing, the doctor Patrick Remington said.
After everything, the Nurses Health Study discovered the hormones of the menopause years ago they could impede the heart wrongs, something that the doctors believed until a detailed study denied it later, he remembered.