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Monday, March 4, 2013
Vitamin D is an essential nutrient for maintaining the immune system and strong bones. However,
excessive levels of vitamin D during pregnancy due to the consumption
of supplements, may increase the risk of food allergy in children in the
future.
Researchers
from Leipzig Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany
shows that the consumption of vitamin D supplements during pregnancy may
increase the risk of food allergy in infants. Excessive
levels of vitamin D in the blood of pregnant women, it can interfere
with normal immune responses after the baby is born.
Since 1990, researchers have studied the link between vitamin D with food allergies. It
is connected with the theory that immune cells are low in the blood
increases the risk of higher food allergy in infants and children.
The research team measured levels of vitamin D during pregnancy and vitamin D are found in the baby's umbilical cord blood. Then, after a lapse of two years, researchers are studying whether there are signs of food allergy in infants. The study involved 622 mothers and 629 children.
The
results clearly show that children of mothers with vitamin D levels are
higher during pregnancy, are more likely to have food allergies,
compared with pregnant women with vitamin D levels lower or
insufficient. The research was subsequently published in the medical journal Allergy edition in February.
Allergy
to foods such as egg whites, milk protein, wheat flour, peanuts or
soybeans associated with high levels of immunoglobulin E in children. The immune system called T-cells, serves to protect a person from food allergies.
"Vitamin D levels are too high in the baby's blood correlates with the number of T-cells a little more," said Dr. Gunda Herberth, leader of the study,The researchers recommended to pregnant women to avoid
taking vitamin D supplements to reduce the risk of food allergy in his future. Fulfill
your need for vitamin D naturally from foods such as dairy products,
such as yogurt and cheese, eggs, spinach, as well as support from sun
exposure.
T-cells are less, "said Dr.. Gunda Herberth, leader of the study.The
researchers recommended to pregnant women to avoid taking vitamin D
supplements to reduce the risk of food allergy in his future. Fulfill
your need for vitamin D naturally from foods such as dairy products,
such as yogurt and cheese, eggs, spinach, as well as support from sun
exposure.
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Being overweight or obese during pregnancy, has been associated with the risk of pregnancy and birth defects in infants. Recent studies have even shown that women who are overweight may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in the baby later.
The study involved a group of pregnant women, average age 35, who have been followed since the age of 16 weeks of pregnancy until delivery. Ten babies born with male sex and had birth weights ranged from 1.85 kg to 4.31 kg.
Every newborn to the age of 7 days, examined closely in the stomach aorta, which is part of the artery that extends to the abdomen. The goal is to determine the thickness of the two inner walls, the intima-media.
Intima-media thickness ranged from 0.65 to 0.97 mm and it is associated with maternal weight during pregnancy. Pregnant women who are overweight are more likely to have babies with the thickness of the intima-media thickness, regardless of the weight babies weighed at birth.
Early physical signs of an increased risk of heart disease is the development of atherosclerosis (clogged arteries) in the abdominal aorta.
"Intima-media thickness of the aorta is considered to be a non-invasive way to determine vascular health in children," said Michael Skilton from Sydney University, who led the research.
This might explain how excess weight during pregnancy, may affect the risk of subsequent children have an increased risk for heart disease and stroke later in life. The results were published in the journal fetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease of Childhood.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Generally, in a family of a child only has one mother and one father. But a baby in the UK it could have 3 mother as well, how come?Couple
Katy and David Slade have not managed to have a child, this is because
Katy diagnosed with a rare genetic disease which means he will never be
able to have children.Although aware of his condition, but the couple still wants to have children themselves. Because of that they think might be needed for help to complete his dream of having a family come true."If
not for you, perhaps we still do not have children. This is the best
gift we've ever had, we still do not believe can be a parent," said Kate
(31 years), as quoted by the Daily Mail, Wednesday (27/2 / 2013).While still a teenager Katy diagnosed with a genetic disorder that makes no reproductive organs. When she cried and told his sister Lucy, until she finally promised to donate one of her eggs when the time comes.After years of marriage, Katy began to miss the presence of a child in the family. He
also asked Lucy to donate her eggs, but Lucy does not want to contain,
and eventually got Jamie Allan (35 years) as a mother substitute.Over the next few months, David began to frozen sperm, while Lucy and Jamie received hormone injections. For Lucy injections to help her produce more eggs that can be harvested, while Jamie to strengthen the uterine lining.In December 2011 as many as two embryos were implanted into the womb of Jamie and on Christmas Eve he was known to be pregnant. At 20 weeks the results showed the baby girl.Finally on 1 September 2012, the baby was born at the Queen Jamie successfully Hospital, Romford. This tiny baby girl named Beatrix Eileen is a combination of the name of his great-grandmother both."Beatrix
is our little angel and we will be forever grateful to the brothers
who have made our dream come true," said David (33 years old).When
Katy Beatrix hug the first time, he looked at Lucy, Jamie and David,
because everyone in the room helped bring Beatrix was born into the
world. Now the little baby Beatrix had 3 different mothers.
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