Joseph E. Mario
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 A mild female immune attack against invaders forms clots in the placenta limiting fetus nourishment, causing pre-eclampsia (after 30 weeks) or an underweight baby, when placental bleeding can be fatal to the fetus within minutes. Pregnancy pre-eclampsia occurs in 40% if mother/father coupling under4 months; reduced to 5% if exclusive coupling exceeds 12 months; and pregnancy pre-eclampsia increased with condom use which prevents contact with, and immunity to, the male sperm. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Investigators employed 3IP nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to noninvasively measure the level of magnesium in the brain and skeletal muscle of twelve fasting nonpregnant women, eleven women in the third trimester of pregnancy, and seven women with pre-eclampsia. Compared with the nonpregnant controls, brain and muscle magnesium levels were lower both in those who were pregnant and those who had developed incuba-tional (during pregnancy) pre-eclampsia. Women in the preeclampsia group had the lowest levels. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Although supplementation did not prevent pre-eclampsia, it did reduce its severity and reduced its incidence by about 10%; however, this did not approach statistical significance. Maternal morbidity and neonatal mortality were improved in the group receiving calcium supplementation, with reductions observed in the severe maternal morbidity and mortality index (risk ratio [RR], 0.80; 95% CI, 0.70-0.91) and the neonatal mortality rate (RR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.56-0.88). |
Marshall Editions
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 However, it is essential to take some vitamin A to prevent lung defects in the fetus and to avoid pre-eclampsia, a condition that involves swelling, sudden weight gain, headaches, and changes in vision, in the mother. Vitamin C plays a major role in the formation of collagen, a major protein found in the connective tissue, cartilage, and bone. It also helps with nerve health, healthy gums, and 796 teeth. Take 75-250 mg a day.
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Herbs: If there is any doubt than a herb should be taken during pregnancy, do not take ~° it. The following herbs, however, are safe. |
Joseph E. Mario
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| Pregnancy pre-eclampsia occurs in 40% if mother/father coupling under4 months; reduced to 5% if exclusive coupling exceeds 12 months; and pregnancy pre-eclampsia increased with condom use which prevents contact with, and immunity to, the male sperm. The solution to infertility is to couple more, so male sperm element ambassador TGF-beta
(expressing foreign genes mean no harm) can effect the lessening of female immune response; also reduced with IntraVenous Immunoglobulins (IVIg) supplement (Carolyn Coulam, Sher Inst, for Reproductive Med., Chicago; and KeltonTremellen, Univ. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| While Garlic's purported ability to lower blood pressure may help with pre-eclampsia, only one quality study was found that examined this—and it showed no difference between dried Garlic tablets and placebo. More research is needed to determine if other Garlic preparations may be effective in treating the dangerous preeclampsia of pregnancy (Meher, 2006).
Protease Inhibitors, Concomitant Administration with
Short-term Garlic administration did not significantly alter ritonavir pharmacokinetics in an open-label, randomized, crossover study of 10 healthy subjects. |
Mark Sircus
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 Several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have provided compelling evidence that MgS04 is the drug of choice for maternal seizure prophylaxis in pre-eclampsia, whether preterm or term.14
Scientists have shown that giving magnesium sulfate to pregnant women may greatly reduce the incidence of cerebral palsy in infants bom weighing less than 3.3 pounds. These low birth weight infants are 60 to 75 times more likely to develop cerebral palsy than babies that reach a normal weight before birth ?and the number of children with cerebral palsy is growing. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Weaker evidence shows calcium supplementation may be helpful for leg cramps, pre-eclampsia, and prophylaxis of urinary crystallization of calcium oxalate in patients with nephrolithiasis (calcium citrate only). contraindications
Calcium supplements are contraindicated in patients, with hypercalcemia (Gilman et al 2001). precautions and adverse reactions
Calcium enhances the effect of cardiac glycosides on the heart and may precipitate arrhythmias (Dukes 1980).
Oral calcium supplementation can cause constipation. |
| Effects of a combination of evening Primrose oil (gamma-linolenic acid) and fish oil (eicosapentanoic + docahexanoic acid) versus magnesium, and versus placebo in preventing pre-eclampsia. Women Health; 19(2-3):117-131. 1992
Dove D & Johnson P. Oral evening Primrose oil: Its Effect of Length of Pregnancy and Selected Intrapartum Outcomes in Low-Risk Nulliparous Women. J Nurse Midwifery; 44(3):320-324. 1999
Ebden P, Bevan C, Banks J et al. A study of evening primrose seed oil in atopic asthma. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids; 35(2):69-72. 1989
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| Attempts at dietary alteration of prostaglandin pathways in the management of pre-eclampsia. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids; 37(3):145-147. 1989
Morse PF, Horrobin DF, Manku MS et al. Meta-analysis of placebo-controlled studies of the efficacy of Epogam in the treatment of atopic eczema: relationship between plasma essential fatty acid changes and clinical response. Br J Dermatol; 121(l):75-90. 1989
Morse NL, Clough PM. A meta-analysis of randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials of Efamol evening primrose oil in atopic eczema. |
| Garlic for preventing pre-eclampsia and its complications. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 3:CD006065, 2006.
McCrindle BW, Heiden E & Conner WT. Garlic extract therapy in children with hypercholesterolemia. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med; 152(1):1089-1094. 1998
McGuffin M, Hobbs C, Upton R et al (eds). Allium sativum L. The American Herbal Products Associaton's Botanical Safety Handbook. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL:6-7,183,188. 1997
McNulty CAM, Wilson MP, Havinga W et al. A pilot study to determine the effectiveness of Garlic oil capsules in the treatment of dyspeptic patients with Helicobacter pylori. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Compared with the nonpregnant controls, brain and muscle magnesium levels were lower both in those who were pregnant and those who had developed incuba-tional (during pregnancy) pre-eclampsia. Women in the preeclampsia group had the lowest levels.
For all pregnant subjects, blood pressure was inversely related to brain magnesium levels. |
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Cardiac and Noncardiac Concerns
Specific clinical conditions in which magnesium deficiency has been implicated for playing a pathophysiological role include hypertension, ischemic heart disease, arrhythmias, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, and asthma. It also contributes to insulin resistance, and has been implicated in diabetes. Two conditions where magnesium is now considered the therapeutic agent of choice are preeclampsia and torsades de pointes. |
Joseph E. Mario
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| Pregnancy pre-eclampsia occurs in 40% if mother/father coupling under4 months; reduced to 5% if exclusive coupling exceeds 12 months; and pregnancy pre-eclampsia increased with condom use which prevents contact with, and immunity to, the male sperm. The solution to infertility is to couple more, so male sperm element ambassador TGF-beta
(expressing foreign genes mean no harm) can effect the lessening of female immune response; also reduced with IntraVenous Immunoglobulins (IVIg) supplement (Carolyn Coulam, Sher Inst, for Reproductive Med., Chicago; and KeltonTremellen, Univ. |
Mark Sircus
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| A severe deficiency during pregnancy may lead to pre-eclampsia,3 birth defects and infant mortality. Magnesium relaxes muscles and research suggests that proper levels of magnesium during pregnancy can help keep the uterus from contracting until week thirty-five. Dropping magnesium levels at this point may start labor contractions. This has been treated by allopathic medicine with magnesium sulfate but this has led to problems we discussed in the chapter that compares magnesium sulfate to magnesium chloride. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Also termed eclampsia (the convulsive and sometimes fatal stage) and pre-eclampsia (all stages prior to convulsions), this sometimes-fatal problem has been known to be a disease of malnutrition since the work of Strauss and Burke at Harvard in the 1930s and 1940s.
From 1971 through 1974, a team from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) studied the records of Dr. Tom Brewer at public-health clinics in Contra Costa County, California. The NIH researchers compared those records with records of women from the same clinics who were not under Dr. Brewer's care. |
Thomas Bartram
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ECLAMPSIA. pre-eclampsia. Toxaemia of last
3 months of pregnancy. Due to a number of causes, one of which is calcium deficiency.
Calcium controls muscular spasms that are a feature of the condition. Eclampsia is due, in part, to a traffic jam of blood through the placenta causing a compensatory rise in blood pressure. Black women run 12 times the risk of developing pre-eclampsia during their first pregnancy as non-black women. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
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 If you have pre-eclampsia.
Over age 60:
Not used.
Pregnancy:
Ritodrine crosses placenta, but animal studies show that it doesn't affect fetuses. Benefits versus risks must be assessed by you and your doctor. Risk category B (see page xviii).
Breast-feeding:
Not applicable.
Infants & children:
Not used.
Prolonged use:
Talk to your doctor about the need for follow-up medical examinations or laboratory studies to check blood sugar, ECG*, fluid and electrolytes.
Skin & sunlight:
No problems expected. |
Thomas Bartram
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| Black women run 12 times the risk of developing pre-eclampsia during their first pregnancy as non-black women. (American researchers)
Women who use barrier contraceptives are more than twice as likely to develop pre-eclampsia in pregnancy than those using non-barrier methods. (North Carolina Memorial Hospital) Symptoms. Headache, dizziness, nausea, upper abdominal pain, twitching of face and limbs, albumin in the urine. Extreme cases: high blood pressure, rigidity, congestive heart failure. Treatment. Hospitalisation. To be treated by qualified obstetrician.
Formula. |
Jonathan Goodman ND
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 Three of the women in the placebo group went on to develop a condition called eclampsia, a serious consequence of pre-eclampsia that's characterized by convulsions or comas. However, none of the women in the EFA or magnesium oxide groups developed this complication.
The results of this study are hardly definitive, but they do suggest that EFAs may play a protective role for women at risk of developing pre-eclampsia.
HOT FLASHES
There's no mistaking a hot flash. Women may feel an almost overwhelming flush of heat in the face, neck, or other parts of the body. |
| According to this theory, prostaglandins may play a key role in causing pre-eclampsia. As we've discussed in chapter 3, one of the main roles of EFAs is to help "regulate" the different prostaglandins in the body. So it makes sense that EFAs might be a potential treatment for pre-eclampsia.
This isn't an entirely new theory. In 1946, English researchers found that women who took a small amount of halibut oil (which contained less than 100 milligrams omega-3s) had fewer complications (called toxemia) than women who didn't. |
| PRE-ECLAMPSIA
One of the more serious complications of pregnancy—one that affects about 6 percent of pregnancies, especially first pregnancies—is a condition called pre-eclampsia. It usually occurs in the third trimester, and is characterized by high blood pressure, swelling (edema), and high levels of protein in
/ told Julie that she had to start eating more fresh vegetables, along -with fish, whole grains, and tofu or other soy foods. I advised her to get some aerobic exercise at least 3 days a week. I also recommended that she take fish oil supplements containing 1.8 grams EPA and DHA. |
Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC
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 Low dietary intake of this mineral is associated with increased risk of pre-eclampsia, a potentially dangerous (but preventable) condition characterized by high blood pressure and swelling. Supplementation with calcium may reduce the risk of pre-term delivery, which is often associated with pre-eclampsia. Calcium may also reduce the risk of hypertensive (p. 89) disorders of pregnancy.16 Pregnant women should consume
1,500 mg of calcium per day. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 Polednak AP. pre-eclampsia, autoimmune disease and breast cancer etiology. Medical Hypotheses 1995; 44(5): 414^118
15. Panayi GS. Hormonal control of rheumatoid inflammation. British Medical Bulletin 1995; 51(2): 462^71
16. Bingol F, Sener B. A review of terrestrial plants and marine organisms having antiinflammatory activity. International Journal of Pharmacognosy 1995; 33(2): 81-97
17. Lee CM, Jiang LM, Shang HS et al. Prehispanolone, a novel platelet activating factor receptor antagonist from Leonurus heterophyllus. British Journal of Pharmacology 1991; 103(3): 1719-1724
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Nicola Reavley
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 In another study done in 1995 at the University of California at Berkeley, researchers assessed the effect of calcium supplementation and drinking milk on pre-eclampsia in over 9000 pregnant women. Results showed that women who drank two glasses of milk per day had the lowest risk. The risk for those drinking one glass of milk per day was similarly low but the risk for those drinking less than one glass of milk per day was substantially higher. Women drinking three or more glasses of milk per day also showed increased risk as did those drinking four or more glasses per day. |
| Other disorders
Vitamin C deficiency may also play a role in macular degeneration of the eye, arthritis, Parkinson's disease, pre-eclampsia of pregnancy, the common cold, low sperm counts and skin ulcers.
Sources
Good sources of vitamin C include citrus fruits such as oranges and grapefruits. Other sources include strawberries, kiwifruit, blackcurrants, papaya; and vegetables such as red peppers, broccoli and brussels sprouts. Vitamin C from natural sources such as these is associated with bioflavonoids which enhance the beneficial effects of vitamin C (See page 364 for more information. |
| Beta carotene may also be beneficial in pre-eclampsia.32 Other results from the CARET study suggest that beta carotene supplements can help to improve lung function in men that have been exposed to asbestos.33
Beta carotene is used to decrease light sensitivity reactions in sufferers of the disease, erythropoietic protoporphyria. Beta carotene supplements have been shown to have beneficial effects in cystic fibrosis by decreasing harmful lipid peroxidation. |
| An increase in the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids was associated with a reduction in risk of pre-eclampsia.19
Other symptoms
Deficiency may also be linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,20 anorexia nervosa,21 premenstrual syndrome, skin disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis and immune disorders.
Daily intake
The amount of essential fatty acids needed depends on a person's levels of activity and stress, nutritional state and body weight. |
| Precursor: a substance used as a building block for another substance. Pre-eclampsia: a disorder associated with the later stages of pregnancy. Symptoms include high blood pressure, edema and protein in the urine.
Premenopause: the period before menopause.
Prolactin: a female hormone involved in milk production.
Prolapse: the falling, sinking or sliding of an organ from its normal position. Prophylaxis: prevention of or protection against disease. Prostacyclin: a prostaglandin. |
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