Articles for tag: Birth Trauma, Oxytocin, Pitocin

Should Pitocin Be Used to Start or Speed Up Labor?

Since the 1970s, pitocin has been a recognized as a safe way to start or augment (speed up) labor. A synthetic form of oxytocin, which is an active hormone in breastfeeding, orgasm and beginning labor, but extracted from the pituitary glands of cows, pitocin will cause uterine contractions to either begin in a non-laboring woman, ...

How to Identify and Cure Facial Paralysis

Facial paralysis is the condition in which the facial nerve becomes inflamed. It results in total loss of voluntary muscle movement of one side of the face. This means the person will not be able to move any muscle in the affected region. Facial paralysis may be caused due to Bell’s palsy, stroke, brain tumour, ...

Karla News

What is Sensorineural Hearing Impairment?

Deafness and hearing loss can occur in one ear (unilateral) or both (bilateral) and be partial (hearing impaired) or total (deafness). Hearing loss and impairment can affect different areas of the ear and form in completely different ways. There are basically two types of hearing loss. These two categories are conductive hearing impairment and sensorineural ...