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Are among the major concerns of women worldwide, especially pregnant women, it is unlikely that the striations do not appear in this period, since it is a sudden stretching of the skin, but neglected, there are methods you can use to prevent and in this article we’ll show you some.

Control your weight: It is important to constantly watch your weight, not pregnant, you go up enormously in weight, an uncontrolled increase is a factor that makes you prone to stretch marks.

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Keep your skin hydrated: You need to coat your skin with moisturizer at least 4 times a day, especially in places where they often appear as streaks, abdomen, thighs, buttocks and breasts.

Avoid very hot water bath: When you go to take a bath, do not do it with very hot water as you can damage and weaken your skin, causing streaks go, if possible try to use cold or lukewarm water.

Anti stretch mark creams Use: This type of cream is very useful for preserving the elasticity of our skin, they should have in their collagen composition, you have to be constant to achieve a good result.

Eat well: A good diet helps prevent stretch marks, products derived from milk, vegetable oils, cereals and citrus fruits are very good at preventing stretch marks, remember to drink orange juice at breakfast , with a little cheese and a bowl of cereal.

Hydrate your body, drink plenty of water, stretch marks tend to appear especially in people who do not drink water, this vital fluid is essential for healthy skin and for the proper functioning of our body.

A novel variant of swine flu emerged in Asia with a genetic adaptation that offers some resistance to Roche’s Tami flu and GlaxoSmithKline’s Elena, the two main drugs used to fight the disease.

Investigators said that over 30% of the samples of H1N1 influenza infection from northern Australia, and over 10% of Singapore, collected during the first months of 2011 had yielded a slightly reduced sensitivity to both drugs.

Meanwhile, there was a significant reduction in sensitivity to peramivir, which is an experimental medication BioCryst Pharmaceuticals.

This new variant of flu was also detected in other parts of the Asia-Pacific region, according to a report of the Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza World Health Organization (WHO) in Melbourne, published in Euro surveillance magazine.

Although this genetic mutation has been observed before in a small number of cases of seasonal flu and H5N1 avian influenza, not previously registered in the swine flu H1N1.

H1N1 was discovered in Mexico and the U.S. in March 2009 and expanded rapidly throughout the world. WHO believes that some 18,450 people died from the virus since its inception until August 2010, including many pregnant women and young people?

The WHO, which had declared the strain responsible for the first pandemic of the XXI century, determined the end of that cycle in August 2010, when the virus was incorporated into the so-called seasonal flu.

The seasonal influenza vaccine is currently offered throughout the world, manufactured by firms such as GlaxoSmithKline, Sarnoff and Novartis – includes protection against the H1N1 strain.

Pregnant women who live or work with smokers face a higher risk of giving birth to a stillborn baby, having a child with low birth weight or with a smaller head, according to a Canadian study.

It is considered that passive smoking exposes people to about 1% of smokers who inhale toxic assets, and the study adds further evidence that this secondhand smoke can harm an unborn baby.

“This information is important for women, their families and healthcare providers,” wrote Joan Crane, of Eastern Health in St. John’s, Canada, and BJOB: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. “The smoke emitted from the burning cigarette contains many harmful chemicals and in higher concentration than the smoke inhaled through a filter,” said the expert.

Crane and his colleagues indicated that these toxic harm to the fetus in several ways: for example, restricting blood flow and possibly damaging the placenta.

Through a database of pregnant women in the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, the team observed the rate of stillbirth deliveries as well as other results during the birth, such as fetal head circumference, which has been linked with delayed intellectual development in children.

Of the nearly 12,000 women in the database, 11% said they had been exposed to secondhand smoke. The birth rate of stillbirth in which the fetus dies during the third trimester of pregnancy, was 0.83% in passive smokers, compared with 0.37% in women who did not breathe smoke snuff.

This does not prove that the smoke itself is the culprit. Even when the researchers took into account other risk factors, including maternal age and alcohol consumption patterns and drug-passive smokers were still three times more likely to give birth to a stillborn child. In other words, if the poison is thus the culprit, he would die a baby in the womb of every 117 women exposed to passive smoking. Read the rest of this entry »

That women have more migraines, depression and more suffering in them more often osteoarthritis of the knee and hip in them is no accident. The fact that gender differences are recognized in most diseases has been the biggest breakthrough of the last decade in women’s health. Historically, fewer women were included in clinical trials with drugs; therefore, for five years by EU guidelines, all products coming to market must be evaluated in both sexes.

And, says Dr. Santiago Palacios, director of the Institute Palacios, Health & Medicine Women, which organized the 10 the National Health and Medical Women’s 3 to 5 March, the three pillars on which settles gender differentiation are genes, hormones and environmental factors. Women live longer but with lower quality, and this has much to do, say the doctor, hormones. “They’re in a body, not only in the reproductive system. There are estrogen receptors in the brain, blood vessels, bone, skin,” he qualifies.

With all this, prevention of disease is a reality that will give way to the “prediction.” That is, through the genes, measures are taken to prevent a disease to which there is genetic predisposition. For example, enter Dr Palacios, in the case of osteoporosis, where genes influence 60 percent of the cases, you can tell a woman to be osteoporosis at menopause and that when you reach age 70 can have a fracture, should take action.