This week, reporter Lindsey Bieber reports on a notable trend of women posting videos on social media of the pain they have while wearing IUDs. Video shows the women wincing and crying in pain as medical providers try to calm them down. In one video, a clinician can be heard saying, “Calm down. Calm down.” Are you okay. “
What’s so frustrating about this issue is that little progress has been made in making the procedure less painful.
In a position statement eight years ago, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) acknowledged that inserting an IUD “is painful for many women.” In January, the group reaffirmed its 2016 position, which noted that research has not demonstrated “effective strategies to reduce this discomfort.”
Studies also show that doctors and other health care providers underestimate women’s pain during IUD insertion. In a study of 200 women, most of whom had given birth, the women reported an average maximum pain score of nearly 65 on a scale of 0 to 100.
However, health care providers rated the woman’s pain at about a 35.
Read the full report to learn more.
baltimore bridge tragedy
The unthinkable happened this week in Baltimore. A ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse. A “Mayday” call from the ship prompted authorities to immediately shut down traffic to the bridge, perhaps saving many lives, but offering little solace to the families who lost loved ones. The tragedy has some people thinking about how prepared they are for such a nightmare scenario. How do you escape if your car is submerged in water?
Under the right circumstances, a calm driver has a chance of escaping a submerged car. In 2013, a 22-year-old woman from Calvert County, Maryland, survived when her car went off the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and plunged into 8 feet of water.
Our team at By The Way has put together some helpful advice on this subject. These tips are useful in a variety of traffic situations, including bad weather, flash floods, or accidents near bodies of water.
I heard that diet can affect the frequency and smell of gas. What else causes foul-smelling flatulence? And how much is normal?
Malodorous farts are determined primarily by what we eat and how it is processed by our bodies and microbiome. For example, a 1971 study published in the journal Gut found that people who ate a high-fiber diet that included beans produced gas nearly twice as fast as those who ate a fiber-restricted diet. It has been measured that on average 49.4 milliliters per hour compared to 26.7 milliliters per hour. Time to be exact.
If you think you (or a dear friend) fart more often than others, know that on average we fart 10 times a day. However, up to 20 times a day is within normal range. And scientists have observed that we expel gas at a similar rate whether we’re old or young.
To learn more about this common but embarrassing bodily function, read Ask a Doctor columnist Trisha S. Pasricha’s advice.
Here are a few things that made us happy this week.
- This warm broccoli grain salad may turn vegetable skeptics into fans
- A 10-year-old nature lover makes an unusual discovery: a pink grasshopper
- ‘Top Chef’ new host Kristen Kish aims for empathy with ‘tough love’
- A truck carrying a cat was stolen. Neighbors mobilized to search for him.
- This $20 fix will improve your shower and reduce your water bill
Want to learn more about “fun” snacks? Our Brain Matters Columnist Richard Sima explains. Yyou can too Read this story as a manga.
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