| Early Pregnancy Symptoms
The onset and degree of pregnancy symptoms will vary within women. Many women experience them within days of conception, others take a few weeks before pregnancy symptoms kick in and a lucky few feel no discomfort at all. The early pregnancy symptoms listed on this page generally can be felt once implantation occurs (8 - 10 days from ovulation) and will lessen after the first trimester.
It is frustrating to realize that many pregnancy symptoms are very similar to those that occur right before menstruating. However, combined with high temperatures and a longer luteal phase - they are key indications that you have achieved pregnancy success!
Your urine and disease
THE urine has always provided a window into the state of health of the body. Before the advent of clinical chemistry, physicians had to taste urine to diagnose diabetes. Although this is no longer practised, clue to this sweetness of ones urine is still lent when one discovers ones urine stain attracts ants. Inspecting your own urine .
Doctors find way to detect fetal alcohol disorders in newborns
VANCOUVER -- A test developed by medical researchers in Toronto is providing a new means for Canadian doctors to detect fetal alcohol syndrome among newborns -- a problem that has become "a huge national disaster," costing Canadians an estimated $4 billion each year, an expert in fetal alcohol disorders said Sunday. Fetal alcohol syndrome and related disorders, including birth defects, brain damage and other developmental problems in people whose mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy, have until now been difficult for doctors to diagnose, since mothers with drinking problems are often unwilling to admit how much alcohol they consume, according to Dr. Gideon Koren, the founder and director of the Motherisk Program at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. But Koren and his fellow researchers at Motherisk have discovered that fatty acid ethyl esters, a byproduct of alcohol, can be traced in stool samples taken from newborns in their first two days, which can indicate whether a baby is at risk of having alcohol-related disorders.
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