Is Vaping Safe in Pregnancy?

E-Cigarettes or electronic cigarettes to those of us who don't smoke, can be inhaled and that is not called smoking it is called vaping. The exotica marketed to the former smoking group is growing in appeal and variety, and was highlighted in a story in Wall Street Journal. But what if you are pregnant, would vaping be safe? E-cigs use technology to turn nicotine, without tar and other byproducts, into inhale-able vapor. If you want to even give off the ambiance of being a smoker in the dark, or from a distance, the very vampy-est vaping devices have LED lights on their ends. Smokers say they "work" just like any cigarette, without some of the tobacco smell, and no ashtray mess. The FDA regulates all tobacco products, whether with smoke or without. Doctors and the medical field have not established safety. Smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes is not safe in pregnancy and many fetal problems have been linked to this including actual birth defects, premature labor, placental problems and growth problems of the babies. Can eCigs ward off the problems seen in pregnancy by tobacco smokers, we are not sure, but nicotine exposure causes a lot of toxicity, so extra nicotine in pregnancy is definitely not a benefit. Most gynos will tell you to just quit, with or without medical aids, before you get pregnant. If just quitting doesn't work, then nicotine substitution (gum, patches) is the next best thing. It's been difficult to study because so few women in the trials actually stick to their resolve to completely quit cigarettes. So as for our original question, is vaping safe in pregnancy, the easy answer from your gyno is that safety has not been firmly established.

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Passing Your Uterine Lining, Menstrual Period Norms

Decidual Cast Periods can be fairly easy, passing some tissue at a time, or off can come the whole lining in one piece called a decidual cast. Generally the lining of the uterus is only 6-8 mm thick at the time of the menstrual period, and it is shed gradually, a few cells at a time. The decidual cast is when the entire lining passes spontaneously. It's not uncommon, but it usually both uncomfortable, and alarming to some. But us women are designed to have some sort of periods Or Not? We have to pass tissue each month. Or Not? Are they good for us? Or Not? Do we want them? Or Not? Is this something that is individual? Or Not? It's a complex topic that I will be discussing a lot over my time in this blog. So lets start with basics: How much do we bleed and what are we loosing, and just what was this that the patient passed? And another basic: track your periods, and the Women's Health Practice site http://www.womenshealthpractice.com/media/pdf/menstrual_chart.pdf you...

Post-Endometrial Ablation Syndrome

If you have had an endometrial ablation and have developed symptoms of pelvic pain you might have post endometrial ablation syndrome. What is post-endometrial ablation syndrome? It is a constellation of symptoms due to entrapped blood or tissue within a uterus that has previously undergone an endometrial ablation. We are able to diagnose this at Women's Health Practic e but occasionally other conditions are causing similar symptoms. Other complications of endometrial ablation include pregnancy, risks from pre-existing conditions such as a polyp or fibroid, an infection of the uterus, or a pregnancy. If you have had a tubal ligation then it is possible that the condition could be post-ablation tubal sterilization syndrome. The ablation procedure is designed to destroy all lining tissue, but in fact there is no way to confirm the completeness of the ablation. It is thought that either residual or regrowth of the tissue is producing the symptoms of post-endometrial ablation syndrom...

You Have an IUD: But a Positive Pregnancy Test

Fortunately IUD pregnancy failures are rare. But if you have an IUD for contraception, and you get a positive pregnancy test, you probably ask yourself, what next? Well, make your gyno appointment promptly, this is a condition that is not typically an emergency, but it can be and it’s not handled over the phone or on a blog, or through self diagnosis! That being said, some researchers from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas decided to look back at over 4100 women who had IUDs and of those 42 cases who became pregnant in their institution, over about a year period of time, to help understand what these women could expect when they got to their gyno and what actually happened to their pregnancies. Accurate pregnancy diagnosis, pelvic examination, and pelvic ultrasound were the cornerstones of the evaluations. They had very specific ways they looked at their ultrasound to prove there was no pregnancy in the fallopian tube, or partially in the fallopian tube...

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