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Dealing with repeated miscarriages Part 1 (Teacher: Michael)
Dealing with repeated miscarriages is one of the many distressing situations that a doctor
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A miscarriage
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triggered by a whole host of factors. The most common ones
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anatomical and genetic abnormalities but there
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others. For example, smoking increases the risk and diseases
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also associated with miscarriages. These include thyroid trouble, diabetes and a wide range of infections, from German measles (rubella), mumps, influenza, listeriosis and toxoplasmosis to herpes and malaria.
Factors in repeated miscarriages
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more likely to
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hormonal imbalance or an abnormality of the womb. The uterus
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two horns instead of one cavity and there is less
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for baby to grow. Previous womb infections or PID - pelvic inflammatory disease, where the genital organs
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damaged and scarred,
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also
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a cause. Babies in the wrong
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- in the confined space of a Fallopian tube, which normally conducts the egg from the ovary to the uterus - miscarry around six to ten weeks. This is an ectopic pregnancy. One in 140 pregnancies
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ectopic and
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more common in women over the
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of 30.
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