Sunday, January 03, 2010
Low thyroid may equal hard labor
Too little of the hormone thyroxine is already known to complicate pregnancy, increasing the risk of miscarriage, premature birth and pre-eclampsia. Now a Dutch team has found even "low to normal" levels of thyroxine may cause babies to be positioned wrongly, making labor more difficult. According to journal Clinical Endocrinology, the babies tended to face the wrong way - towards their mother's back rather than stomach. Not only are these labors generally longer and harder, they are also more likely to end in an assisted delivery with forceps, ventouse or a Caesarean.Because the researchers believe the hormone problem affects about one in 10 pregnancies - a blood test for it should become a routine part of the antenatal check.
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Bovine thyroid is a natural supplement that are natural and the body "recognizes" them as if they were produced by their own body. They also give all the thyroid hormones T1, T2, T3 and T4 instead of T4 hormone only. Of course this treatment method obtains bodily improvement instead of destroying it.
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