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Pregnancy And Associated Foot Ailments

Pregnancy is known to elicit a myriad of changes in a woman’s body, many of which being adverse in nature leading to a host of niggling problems. One of the most prevalent grievances is foot pain that is regrettably often ignored. As the pregnancy advances, there is innate weight gain that causes the woman’s core of gravity being displaced. This leads to a new, altered weight-bearing posture and additional pressure being exerted on the knees and feet. The two widely noticed foot ailments experienced during pregnancy are over-pronation and edema that lead to discomforting pain noted in the areas of the heels, arches also known as ball of the foot. Several others suffer from leg cramps and varicose veins caused due to the pilling pounds. Due to all these factors, it is vital that pregnant  [...]

Managing Epilepsy And Pregnancy – Part I

There are a staggering one and half million women in the fertile age group that are ailing with epilepsy in just India alone. Women with Epilepsy or WWE that are in the reproductive age band have been observed to have fewer offspring than other age matched controls. Neurologists and gynaecologists are frequently being faced with WWE cases during their pregnancy, a majority of who are not adeptly clued-up regarding optimal means of managing it. Pregnancy has been known to influence the innate history of epilepsy, with seizure attacks likely to intensify in nearly a third of them. When such WWE take anti-epileptic drugs or AED course, the looming risk of significant malformation of the foetus may be increased by nearly 1.5-3 times, particularly so when the AED drug Sodium valproate in greater  [...]