New
water-birth mirror for safer deliveries
London: Water births will now be safer and also convenient
for midwives.
Scientists at Loughborough University in Britain have
invented an illuminated, adjustable mirror that can be used under water when a
baby is being born.
Experts say that giving birth in a
water pool is an effective form of pain relief and helps many women feel in
control during labour.
"We hope the device will help the midwives carry out
their work in more comfortable conditions, and for future mothers-to-be to
benefit from this device that allows them to experience a more dignifying
labour," said Carmen Torres, senior lecturer at Loughborough's school of
mechanical and manufacturing engineering.
The mirror, which has lights around its frame, is mounted
securely on a flexible pole.
Its design makes it easier for midwives to see when a baby's
head crowns.
Midwives currently have to bend over the side of a pool and
with one hand hold a mirror under the water to look for the baby's head
crowning, while shining a torch above with the other hand.
The new device could make having a
water birth more pleasant and dignified for women, a university press release
said.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
09.06.2014
Microbes in
homes may lower asthma risk in infants
Washington: Infants exposed to a diverse range of bacterial
species in house dust during the first year of life are less likely to develop
asthma in early childhood, says a new study.
Children who were neither allergic nor prone to wheezing as
three-year-olds were the most likely to have been exposed to high levels of
bacteria, and paradoxically, to high levels of common allergens.
“There is no obvious mechanism
explaining the association, but the evidence supports earlier research that
strongly pointed to the influence of microbial species in shaping immune
responses,” asserted Susan Lynch, an associate professor of medicine at the
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Lynch and UCSF pulmonologist Homer Boushey compared exposure
to allergens from cat, cockroach, dog, dust mite and mouse, and wheezing
incidence as told by parents and allergy as assessed by tests.
Through the first three years of life, cumulative exposure
to allergy-provoking substances from cats, mice, cockroaches and dust mites -
but not from dogs - was associated with more wheezing and allergic reaction in
the new study.
These results indicate that immune responses might be shaped
by exposure during the first year of life differently than they are by later
exposures.
“The concomitant exposure to high levels of certain
allergens and bacteria in early life may be beneficial,” the researchers
concluded.
The report was published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical
Immunology
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
09.06.2014
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