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14 MAY 2014 A new Cancer Research UK trial investigating whether high doses of aspirin
can help prevent permanent hearing loss, a common side effect among cancer patients given
SUN
Get out in the sun [20 minutes morning sun!]
There is clear evidence that avoiding sun exposure is a risk factor for all-cause mortality
High blood pressure in pregnancy together with some other symptoms [ edema, chelbon in the
urine-proteinuria-, hazy vision, headaches etc] can be a sign of pre-eclampsia which can lead to
eclampsy [eclampsia], a life dangerous situation for the mother and the foetus.
It has shown that magnesium citrate when started around 6 months of pregnancy [24 weeks] can
reduce the chance of a pre-eclampsia [mainly reducing the diastolic blood pressure [this is the
lower value] [ Example: 120 / 80 120 =systolic. 80 = diastolic]
If necessary: Take some 200-400 mg magnesium citrate with the evening meal [if it causes too
loose stools then take a bit less] [in Israel: companies like Solgar and Now]
It is also worth taking some B6, the best to buy is P-5-P [ =B6], some 25 mg or 50 mg per day
with food.
[ Don't take B6 in high dose while breast feeding, may reduce the milk supply]
Use also some cheese for extra calcium and vitamin K [advised : Brie [only the original French
one ,not tnuva] and original Dutch Gouda cheese.
Allopurinol : a drug against gout, to help against brain damage in newborns “be-metzuka”.
A dose of 500 mg intravenous allopurinol rapidly crosses the placenta and provides target
concentrations in 95% of the fetuses at the moment of delivery, which makes it potentially useful
as a neuroprotective agent in perinatology with very little side effect