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Gynecological Exam: Before, During, and After Understanding the Examination

February 6th, 2011

Gynecological examination can be a routine checkup for women or an evaluation of a specific problem to get a diagnostic picture of an illness. Routine examinations are usually done annually on women who are in their childbearing years to foresee the possibility of having cervical cancer and other related ailments.

Going to an obstetrician or gynecologist is not only for pregnant women. Generally, women can go for gynecological exam as early as eighteen years old or as the need arises. A pelvic examination and a Pap smear is the typical tests once you make an appointment with a gynecologist, but it can also include the following:

1) Urine cultures

2) Wet mount

3) Mammogram

First Gynecological Exam

When girls are planning to have sex or have started having sex or even those who are not sexually active yet, they can start going for gynecological examination. Even when below eighteen, girls can also seek gynecological care if there are abnormal symptoms or discharges in the vaginal area. If going for an appointment for the first time, here are some important factors to take note:

Schedule the appointment during the middle part of the menstrual cycle to make sure that the uterus has not shed cells yet.

There should be no sexual intercourse or douching two days prior to the visit and nothing should be put to the vagina such as tampons or fingers to avoid abnormal result of Pap smear.

If there is a need for someone to be with you during the examination, make sure that you have properly informed the doctor so as not to violate existing policies.

Write down questions you may want to ask and symptoms you may have been experieincing.

Before the Examination

Before the doctor starts the examination, you may be required to submit a urine sample to check for pregnancy or urinary tract infections. Having an empty bladder during the examination can avoid any feelings of discomfort along the process. The doctor may then start taking the medical history, which would include the family’s history of cancer, operations, hospitalizations, and past and current medications.

During the Examination

A thorough physical examination is the first thing that the doctor would do, including checking the breasts for any abnormality. Then you would be asked to lie down with both legs placed in thestirrups and knees opened. This is now the time for the examination of the vulva and the pelvic floor muscles. There are two more examinations that may be done:

a) Speculum Examination to collect cervical cells for the Pap smear.

b) Bimanual Examination to feel the size of the uterus, check the cervix for pain, the size of the ovaries, and look for abnormalities.

After the Examination

The doctor will now discuss the result of the examination including the tests that have immediate results. If there are infections or any serious conditions diagnosed, a prescribed treatment is then recommended and you may be asked to come back for examination.

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Women After Age 30 to Pay Attention to

January 6th, 2011

30 year-old female appearance seems very healthy body, but actually all but in mature and aging function between wandering. If you are 30 is still try very hard to consume youth, the body can you send to protest. Therefore, 30 years old the female should be more alert the following three health minefield.
A: gastrointestinal small minefield look not to be ignored
Experiments demonstrate that even eat the same amount of men and women of the same food, the woman also have to spend much more time than men to digest it. Women are predisposed to chronic constipation and intestinal illness, its probability were twice as much as men and three times.
Coping methods:
First, get rid of the bad habit of disorderly eat between meals, and if often eat between meals, stomach will need at any time to digest, to secrete gastric juice when you eat, gastric juice to secrete decreases. Therefore influence appetite and digestion, as time passes, it is easy to cause stomach occurrence.
Second, often eat food fiber volume much food, such as celery, leek, bean sprouts, bamboo shoot, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, sweet potato, etc. Food fiber in intestinal cannot be digestion absorption, but can absorb moisture, thus stimulating bowel movement, prevent constipation and diarrhea happening.
Minefield B: breast cancer incidence high
Relevant data shows, breast cancer has risen for the first female tumor, becoming the number one killer threatened women’s health.
Coping methods:
First, when bathing avoid with hot water, more do not stimulate breast in hot water long hours soaked. Sleeping position with supine best, lest sideways extrusion breast. Choose not to make a breast milk cover has oppressive feeling advisable.
Second, right amount to eat some more fish, meat and dairy products, can a small increase in breast adipose, supply full nutrition, to keep the plump.
Third, special attention to women adolescence, menstrual period, pregnancy, and other special stage breast care to the security through “troublous times”.
Minefield C: osteoporosis prevents early
Generally speaking, osteoporosis and bone serious atrophy women more than men, especially menopausal woman. Women from 28 years old later calcium began to erosion, with increasing age, the loss of speed also subsequently accelerated.
Coping methods
First, the multi-food including rich in calcium food. Such as milk, laver, shrimp skins, bean products, celery, rape, carrots, black agarics, mushrooms, sesame etc. Keeping food fresh storage can reduce calcium connections. Sorghum, buckwheat, oats, corn grains more rice and wheat flour, at ordinary times more calcium should be appropriately eat some miscellaneous grains.
Second, appropriate arrangements can strong bones sport. Like gymnastics, walking and stand on the treatment of osteoporosis has great significance.