Running on empty

Article Abstract:

Nurses should be aware of the possibility of disordered eating patterns in women who participate in physical activities. Poor nutritional intake, combined with the physical demands of a sport, may lead endocrine or skeletal problems. Any active woman may be at risk but those involved in activities which require thinness, including figure-skating or long-distance running, are at particular risk. Nurses may find bulimia and disordered eating patterns more difficult to spot than anorexia. Nurses in primary care should ensure they make a thorough health assessment of active women.

Sports

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Learning disabilities: helping women manage menstruation

Article Abstract:

Nurses are ideally placed to help women with learning difficulties overcome difficulties in coping with menstruation, which avoids the need for radical surgery. The traditional treatment for women with learning difficulties is a hysterectomy, which can be performed more for the benefit of people caring for the women than for the women herself. Mentally handicapped women can be taught to manage their menstrual cycle through education and support, resorting to hormonal or surgical suppression only if all other avenues have been investigated.

Care and treatment, Management, Mentally ill persons, Mentally ill, Menstruation

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Campaigning for women's health rights worldwide

Article Abstract:

Many women as health workers or family leaders spend much of their time involved in health promotion activities, and reproductive rights issues are now central to women's health politics. Most reporductive health campaigners work to empower women through advice, information and care, and there are often cultural disagreements as in the in the fight to stop genital mutilation. There are continuing campaigns for safe and effective contraception.

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