Sentences with phrase «using oxytocin»

The study found that dogs who were sprayed using oxytocin spent significantly more time gazing into their owner's eyes than they did the others.

«Many parents of children with autism are already obtaining and using oxytocin nasal spray with their child, and clinical trials of the spray's effects are underway all over the world.

Low oxytocin levels have also been linked to depression, but using oxytocin to treat mental health conditions has not yet been studied sufficiently.

In order to investigate this, 30 women taking part in an eight - month long - term study conducted by the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at MedUni Vienna used an oxytocin nasal spray immediately before intercourse.

After the study period, researchers found that the kids who used the oxytocin nasal sprays showed great improvements in terms of social, emotional and behavioral activities.

«It's plausible that close parent - child bonds help support the neural development of the areas of the brain that make and use oxytocin, setting up the child for more effective social interactions and mental health in the future.»

I don't know which cows we have in India, but everyone uses Oxytocin injection to increase the milk output.

The state government, in a communique issued here on Wednesday, has made a fervent appeal to farmers not to use oxytocin as its sustained use may cause hormonal imbalance even in human beings and harm their reproductive system.

It seems that many breeders use oxytocin early on in the whelping process, when they feel it isn't progressing fast enough.

Not exact matches

To relieve the stress of lying, people often use their palms to rub their arms or legs to stimulate the release of the calming hormone oxytocin.

«Excess dopamine (as with cocaine use) can lead to euphoria, so perhaps oxytocin - mediated dopamine release is responsible for the feeling you describe.»

«An oxytocin nose spray used to be used to aid in letdown, but that's not really prescribed anymore.

Consider asking that any artificial oxytocin used to jump - start your labor be given at intervals rather than continuously.

Some practitioners warn about using this technique for labor stimulation or induction because they fear long contractions from the oxytocin release.

It's conclusions about safety of cytotec use for induction of full - term labor: «There was no difference in serious neonatal or maternal mortality between women receiving misoprostol and women who received prostaglandin E2 or oxytocin; however, most studies were underpowered for this assessment.»

This involves using pressure on certain spots on your body, like the roof of your mouth, to help stimulate oxytocin and in turn labor.

Nonetheless, doulas can help mothers experience the benefits of oxytocin naturally without the use of medication.

Strategies that practitioners and mothers can use to upregulate the oxytocin system, and downregulate the stress response, will also be discussed.

A new study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Gynaecology confirms what many who have undergone a hospital birth already know: the use of the labor - inducing drug pitocin (synthetic oxytocin) leads to great pain and suffering, including serious adverse, unintended health effects to both mother and infant.

Pitocin is the synthetic form of oxytocin, the hormone that causes uterine contractions, and is commonly used to induce labor.

This is used in conjunction with IV fluids and often with synthetic oxytocin.

How about we measure moms» blood oxytocin levels and use that to determine who loves their kids more?

For example recent research by the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology has shown the use of oxytocin, for induction of labour or to «speed up» labour, is an independent risk to babies and increases NICU admission.

If a woman's labor is not progressing fast enough per hospital policy, then they create intense contractions using synthetic forms of oxytocin.

A 1986 study published in the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) National Institutes of Health's (NIH) website, the use of an electric breast pump (i.e. nipple stimulation) was proven to be as effective as oxytocin infusion as a means of induction.

Some studies have shown that it can inhibit to the Oxytocin levels — which is the hormone that causes the let down which might be another reason why some baby too are using a nipple shield aren't able to transfer as much milk.

Epidurals slow labor, possibly through the above effects on the laboring woman's oxytocin release, although there is also evidence from animal research that the local anesthetics used in epidurals may inhibit contractions by directly affecting the muscle of the uterus.18

The use of oxytocin, which strengthens contractions, either during labour, or in third stage, has also been linked to an increased risk of FMH and blood group incompatibility problems.34 35

Other western practices that may contribute to PPH include the use of oxytocin for induction and augmentation (speeding up labour) 28 29 episiotomy or perineal trauma, forceps delivery, caesarean and previous caesarean (because of placental problems - see Hemminki30).

Neither option has proven to be a superior choice, and the aggressive use of oxytocin can lead to a higher risk of caesarean section.

On average, the first stage of labor is 26 minutes longer in women who use an epidural, and the second, pushing stage is 15 minutes longer.19 Loss of the final oxytocin peak probably also contributes to the doubled risk of an instrumental delivery — vacuum or forceps — for women who use an epidural, 20 although other mechanisms may be involved.

Synthetic oxytocin, which mimics the effects of natural oxytocin on a pregnant woman's uterus, was first marketed in the 1950's, and has largely replaced ergometrine, although a combination drug, called syntometrine, is still used, especially for severe haemorrhage.

This comprises the use of an oxytocic agent - a drug that, like oxytocin, causes the uterus to contract strongly - given usually by injection into the mothers thigh as the baby is born, as well as early cord clamping, and «controlled cord traction» - that is, pulling on the cord to deliver the placenta as quickly as possible.

For more help, check out this post by Pearl in Oyster (PIO) about how we can use our God - given hormones to help us parent better in Oxytocin and «Time In.»

Also, the number of Cesarean sections dropped by 50 percent, oxytocin use for labor induction decreased by 40 percent, forceps use by 40 percent, and the average length of labor by 25 percent.

Reduced risk of certain interventions such as the use of synthetic oxytocin (Pitocin), forceps and vacuum extraction

Just like the ice cream in the shark attack example, the need for synthetic oxytocin use may simply be a marker for those with already low levels or low levels of receptors.

That might help tease out some of the questions about whether the pitocin is causing the depression or merely being used in women who have decreased oxytocin levels or receptors to help with labor progress, who also happen to be at risk for depression.

Roughly 94 percent of the women in the study had a vaginal birth, and less than 5 percent required oxytocin augmentation (which is used to make contractions stronger and closer together), or an epidural.

A strict protocol was used, including timing of oxytocin use and amniotomy.

Other drugs such as Oxytocin nasal spray, Sulpiride, Thorazine, TRH, and Human Growth Hormone may also have a positive effect on breast milk supply, but they are not as commonly used.

When the baby remains in a posterior position (5.5 % of labors), the mother is more likely to experience a longer than average labor (both first and second stages); the use of synthetic oxytocin to augment (speed up) labor; epidural for pain relief and a cesarean surgery.

After adjustment for maternal age, lone parent status, income quintile, use of any versus no substances and parity, women in the home birth group were less likely to have epidural analgesia (odds ratio 0.20, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.14 — 0.27), be induced, have their labours augmented with oxytocin or prostaglandins, or have an episiotomy.

We excluded women who required oxytocin for induction of labour after the 2:1 matching with our study group, because we learned during the study that the policy with respect to the use of oxytocin for induction of labour was outside the scope of practice for midwives and family physicians in some hospitals.

A Cochrane review found that: «Women who used epidurals were more likely to have a longer delivery (second stage of labour), needed their labour contractions stimulated with oxytocin, experienced very low blood pressure, were unable to move for a period of time after the birth (motor blockage), had problems passing urine (fluid retention) and suffered fever and association between epidural analgesia and instrumental birth.»

For example, among three large studies investigating prostaglandins for induction of labor in women with a previous cesarean delivery, one found an increased risk of uterine rupture (89), another reported no increased rupture risk (5), and a third found no increased risk of rupture when prostaglandins were used alone (with no subsequent oxytocin)(6).

The use of oxytocin for augmentation of contractions, separate from induction of labor, during TOLAC has been examined in several studies.

(Acute breast pain; engorgement, plugged ducts, blebs and mastitis, massage and the role of lymphatic system, oxytocin; use of massage in different cultures)

Using blood samples, the study found that regulation of the oxytocin receptor gene OXTR was associated with development of the condition.

Perhaps the most salient conclusion of the Dozier et al. study is that the combination of the use of epidural in conjunction with other medications — most notably IV oxytocic agents — is very effective in relieving pain and augmenting labour but it also suppresses the body's production of endogenous oxytocin, which is essential to milk ejection and milk production (Jonas et al., 2009).