Estrogen and Your Health

What Is Estrogen?: What is estrogen and how does it affect your health? If you're interested in lowering your risk of breast cancer,or if you want to understand how to prevent recurrence after treatment, it's important to understand the role that estrogen, and other hormones, play in your health. Get started by reading about estrogen.

Estrogen Definition and Functions.

Estrogen Replacement Therapy or HRT: Low levels of estrogen can be caused by natural, surgical, or chemical menopause, and by estrogen suppression medications. Some side effects of low estrogen may include: hot flashes, headaches, night sweats and vaginal dryness. Some women may be able to take HRT (hormone replacement therapy) to help counteract these effects.

Long-term Use of Estrogen is Safe Within Limits.

Estrogen and Breast Cancer: Some kinds of breast cancer are fueled by high amounts of estrogen. That's the reason that estrogen suppression medications are an important part of treatment that prevents recurrence. Here is an overview of the main types of breast cancer: ductal, lobular, inflammatory, and Paget's disease.

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WEIGHT GAIN (GROWTH PATTERNS)
Learn what the use of growth charts for babies that are exclusively breastfeeding.

Are Growth Charts appropriate for exclusively Breastfed Babies?
Frequently Asked Questions about growth patterns, including the use of growth charts for breastfeeding infants, what a percentile is, and the average height

Children's Growth Charts
In late April, 2006, the World Health Organization released long-awaited new growth charts for breastfed children. Based on careful studies of breastfed

Growth Chart
Birthcare boy and girl baby growth charts. of infants who are breastfed vs. formula fed in the US, making these growth charts appropriate as assessment

Baby Growth Chart
The WHO is very clear that the new growth charts apply not just to breastfed babies. In fact they describe how all babies should grow in all places around

Australian Breastfeeding Association - World Health Organization
The chart shows both the Standard Growth Chart and Breastfed Growth Chart on the same sheet--and yes, I can see that on the old Standard Growth Chart your

13-month-old baby gaining weight poorly, should I wean her?
The World Health Organisation has published new infant growth charts which use breastfed babies as the optimum size, replacing 40-year-old growth charts

kellymom.com :: Average Growth Patterns of Breastfed Babies
kellymom.com - Breastfeeding and Parenting. Evidence-based information on breastfeeding and parenting issues.

kellymom.com :: Chart: Average Growth of Breastfed Boys
The charts were based on 226 infants who were breastfed for at least 12 months, with no solid foods before 4 months of age. WHO and its partners are

ProMoM, Inc. - Preliminary Growth Charts for Breastfed Babies
Here's a general guide to the growth of breastfed babies during the first year: above average in height and below average in weight on the growth chart.


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