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Antenatal blood tests
You will be offered a variety of blood tests during your pregnancy. By testing your blood, a great deal can be deduced about the likely health of yourself and your baby. Whenever possible the taking of blood tests is timed so that you don’t need lots of needles on separate occasions! Blood group Usually at…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Pregnancy Health, Pregnancy Tests
Tagged anaemia, antibodies, Blood disorders, CVS, Cystic fibrosis, deafness, diabetes, Down’s syndrome, Genetic disorders, German measles, hepatitis B, HIV, Miscarriage, Rh disease, Rhesus factor, rubella, Sickle-cell disease, Thalassaemia, Toxoplasmosis, Ultrasound, Vaccination
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Infections that may affect your baby
Rubella Rubella (or German measles) can seriously affect your baby’s sight and hearing, and cause brain and heart defects in your baby if you catch it in the first four months of pregnancy. All children are now immunised against rubella at 12-15 months, and again before they start school. If you’re not immune and you do come into contact…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Online antenatal classes, Pregnancy Health
Tagged AIDS, antenatal class, Antibiotic, baby Rubella, babyworld online antenatal class, chickenpox, class 1, cold sores, German measles, Group B streptococcal, hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Herpes, HIV, HIV/AIDS, infection, Infectious diseases, oral herpes, rubella, Sexually transmitted diseases, Toxoplasmosis
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Hepatitis B
Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver. This can be caused by virus infections and the most serious type is hepatitis B. Hepatitis B can be transmitted from an infected mother to her baby during pregnancy or at birth. The baby will probably not be ill, but often becomes a carrier of the virus and may go on to…
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Tagged Diphtheria, Expanded Program on Immunization, Gastroenterology, Hepatitis, hepatitis B, hepatitis B. Hepatitis B, homeopathy, infection, inflammation, Meningitis, Pertussis, tetanus, Vaccination, Vaccination schedule, viral infection, Viruses, whooping cough
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Vaccinations for babies before birth?
Vaccinations for babies in the womb could massively reduce the transmission of some diseases, researchers have said. But experts have already rounded on the results, saying that the risks are almost certain to outweigh the benefits. A team from Canada, reporting in Nature Medicine, managed to give lamb foetuses a vaccination into their mouth tissues while they lay…
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Tagged Amniocentesis, Chorionic villus sampling, hepatitis B, Herpes, HIV, illness, Immunology, infection, Miscarriage, Pregnancy test, Vaccination
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Call for Hep C screening
18 July, 2000 ALMOST one in a hundred women in the UK may be infected with the hepatitis C virus, a study has revealed. Close to 5000 women attending a London antenatal clinic were tested for hepatitis C infection; 0.8 per cent of the women tested positive for the virus. The hepatitis C virus can cause…
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Tagged body piercings, Cancer, Gastroenterology, HCV, Hepatitis, hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Hepatocellular carcinoma, HIV/AIDS, infection, liver cancer, surgery, Viruses
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