Miscarriage stories of loss, hope and help. It's always devastating to experience a loss. It can cause you to feel alone, isolated. There's no 'right' way to feel - a range of reactions are possible and normal. In addition to the grief you may feel, your body will be undergoing some profound hormonal adjustments, which may make you feel very emotionally volatile. If you have had a miscarriage, take the time to understand better why these occur and why it is not your fault.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Common Treatment to Prevent Recurrent Miscarriage Doesn't Work
Most women who have miscarriages have one or two; however, about 1% of couples experience three or more. Although the cause is usually unknown, some investigators have suggested that the pregnant women may have an immune-system defect that causes their bodies to "reject" the fetus through miscarriage.
In a healthy pregnancy, the mother develops immune-system responses that allow the pregnancy to continue. If this doesn't happen, the mother's body perceives the fetus as foreign material and rejects it -- a phenomenon known as recurrent miscarriage. Without medical intervention, this will continue to happen with each new pregnancy.
To prevent recurrent miscarriage, mononuclear-cell immunization is offered by many medical centers in the U.S. and around the world. With this therapy, the mother is immunized with white blood cells from the baby's father, on the theory that this immunization will "override" the mother's own immune response to the pregnancy. However, the effectiveness of this technique has been in question due to conflicting results of clinical studies. The findings of the reported study support the opinion that mononuclear-cell immunization doesn't work.
Full article: http://www.webmd.com/content/article/19/1728_50634.htm
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Wouldn't it be nice if the Dr's in the Hormone Allergy study involving CRH and mast cells would actually tell us how they "block" CRH in mast cells to help prevent m/c. They say "we already know how to block CRH in mast cells.." but don't definitively give us an answer. :)
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