Monitor your body throughout pregnancy.
The advice to anyone displaying symptoms of coronavirus is to self-isolate, treat the symptoms with the like of paracetamol or ibuprofen and, if necessary, contact the NHS 111 telephone number for advice. A high temperature, and a new, continuous cough are the main, but not the only symptoms. The government advises anyone with symptoms to…
How Amazon weakens domestic businesses – and leaves us unable to meet Coronavirus demand In May last year, a customer who purchased a CMS60D pulse oximeter made a false complaint against our company. We’d sold hundreds of these oximeters over the years, and had 5* reviews on every purchase. This one person claimed – without getting…
Some more advanced fingertip pulse oximeters boast waveform displays as one of their features – but what is really going on? Pulse Oximeters differentiate between the light absorbed by the oxygenated arterial blood (what it wants to measure), and other interference (light absorbed by veins, skin and bone, for example). The difference between arterial blood…
Pulse oximetry measures the percentage of oxygen carried through the arteries, compared with the maximum level. A healthy level at resting state is between 95%-99%. When a pulse oximeter is attached to a finger, earlobe or toe, two beams of light (one red, one infrared) are shone through. Because blood absorbs light differently depending on…
It is known that high oestrogen levels during pregnancy cause permanent changes to the mother’s chromosomes, in a process known as epigenesis. This was previously used as one of the reasons to explain why women who have multiple pregnancies are at greater risk of developing heart disease. Recent studies (such as Peters et al. 2016),…
11:30am: Yvette explains that sperm can last up to 7 days, meaning that conception rarely happens at time of mating. Using the example of human beings, Yvette explains to the audience that they may ovulate and conceive in Waitrose. The audience is discussing blood testing and progesterone testing – a relatively expensive method, but widely…