Ways to Check Ovulation

Well during each cycle a female body changes due to the effect of hormones that predominated during each cycle. These changes can be easily monitored with some effort. There are methods to check whether you are ovulating or not without using any ovulation kits. These changes are important to monitor if you are trying to get pregnant as accurately monitoring them will increase the chances of getting pregnant.


Here are a few methods you can use:-

1) Monitor Your Menstrual Cycle: A normal cycle is somewhere between 28days plus minus 7 days. You monitor your periods regularly then you will be ovulating at around 14th day from the beginning of the last menstruation.

2) Check your Basal Body Temperature: You can keep track of your body temperature by using a basal body thermometer. Usually after ovulation a females BBT increases to somewhere around 0.5 degrees. Usually you should measure it in the morning.

3) Cervical Wetness: Some women can feel the cervical wetness which is maximum during the ovulation. You can check it by properly washing the hands and then gently feeling the cervix with one or two fingers. While doing this you can also feel the consistency of the cervix and whether it is open or not.

4) Mittle Schmerz: It is a pain of ovulation which occurs specifically during ovulation. Few women can feel that.

5) You can always use the ovulation kit with your convenience as they are pretty accurate.

Medical Causes of Poor School Performances

All the parents (or many) want to see their kids perform well in school. Sometimes they are so strict that they dont see or they do not want to understand why their child has poor school performance. They forget about some other medical causes that can cause poor school performances not only low attention. Let me list some medical causes of poor school performances here. Be sure to ask your children about some of these problems if they are not getting good marks in the class.



I am listing them according to whatever comes to my mind first...

1. Adenoids: This leads to increase size of tonsills leading to blockage of eustachian tube which in turn leads to glue ear or serous otitis media. These children have problem in hearing. They sit somewhere in the middle benches in the class, have their mouth open and try to listen to teachers. But since they cant listen what they are being taught they cant do well in exams do they...

2. Eye problems like myopia or hypermetropia. Some of these children complain of headache while reading. This happens especially in hypermetropics. Parents think that he is giving just another excuse.

3. Worm infestations and malnutrition also lead to decreases attention in class and low grades.

4. ADHD i.e. attention deficit hyperkinetic disorder

5. Some specific learning disabilities like dyslexia etc...

6. Diabetes and other hormonal problems can also lead to fatigue, memmory loss etc.

If your child is getting persistently low grades and also if he or she is trying hard to improve its time to talk to them about any problem be it medical, mental or stress or any other problem before they loose hope and stop trying.

Thank you for reading the article. Please leave your comments below.

Tomatoes Decrease Risk Of Heart Attcks

 Here is an interesting fact about tomatoes that they help in decreasing the risk of stroke or heart attack. This primarily due to the presence of large amount of lycopene in them. Lycopene is an antioxidant that is also present in other red fruits and vegetables which help in reducing reactive oxygen species also known as singlet oxygen quenching property which according to wiki is 100 times more efficient than vitamine E and 125 times more efficient than that of glutathione.



   A study performed in Finland suggested that diet rich in tomatoes could be helpful in reducing risk of stroke. Lycopene gives tomatoes its red colour and is already linked in lowering the lisk of prostate cancer in men. It also prevents blood clotting. It decreases the amount of reactive oxygen species in blood that injure the walls of artery leading to formation of atherosclerotic plaque. Thus it prevents or atleast delays the onset of a heart attack. It is also known to decrease the wrinkle formation in skin.

So eat a lot of tomatoes and stay healthy.

Reflux Esophagitis and Bad Teeth

Many people have bad teeth, mostly due to bad eating habit, poor oral hygiene etc. etc. But did you know that reflux easophagitis or gastroesophageal reflux disease can cause bad teeth and even it can lead to tooth loss. Well if you think about it, its not surprising. Let me explain you why.

Well from the time our teeth appear, they are in constant state of demineralisation and remineralisation which is usually balanced by many factors. One of such factor is pH of our mouth which is slightly alkaline and it is maintained by saliva. When this balance is disturbed then demineralisation of teeth occur leading to tooth caries.

So in people with severe reflux esophagitis the pH of mouth becomes acidic due to massive acid reflux. This leads to increased demineralisation of teeth leading to caries and ultimately leading to teeth loss if not treated in time.

Treatment of this condition would be to treat your primary condition first i.e. reflux esophagitis. Visit your dentist immediately if you notice such condition.

Hearing Loss and Headphones: Is There a Connection???

Now a days with the invention of portable music players, ipod, it is more sort of became a habit for many to wear headphones while working, walking, cooking, sleeping and sometimes even during pooping. They keep listening to their personalised music play list for hours and after some time they start having ear aches. So they start thinking that may be these headphones are bad and should be changed. Did you ever think that your ears can get fatigued so called listeners fatigue due to long hours of listening to music. Well it is a phenomenon by which your in ear headphones can harm your ears.

How do headphones harm your ear: Well to understand that we need to understand what is stapedial reflex. Stapes is a bone in our middle ear (smallest bone in our body) which transmits the sound via oval window to the inner ear from outside. Now this bone is connected to wall of middle ear by a muscle called stapedial muscle. Whenever we hear a loud noise this muscle contracts and pulls the stapes bone away from inner ear so that amount of sound entering the inner ear is decreased. This is a normal protective mechanism.

Now when we start listening to music via our headphones, specially the in ear ones, which totally clog the external ear canal, the sound seems a bit loud to our inner ear. So it sends a protective signal to muscle, which in turn contracts and thereby decreases the loudness reaching the inner ear. We think that the volume is low and we crank up the volume. This leads to increased workload to the muscle and at last it gets fatigued. Now when it gets fatigued the muscle no more contracts leading to all of the loud noise reaching to inner ear. This causes inner ear cells to die and leads to hearing loss.

What to Do??

• Well 1st of all control the loudness of the device
• Limit the usage of the device
• Buy a good pair of noise cancelling headphones so that you don't have crank up the volume to listen to your songs or play lists. 

Hope you liked the article here. Please do add any other information or suggestion in form of comments to help people live healthier.