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21. Endometrial cancer
(Endometrial cancer)
... affect my sexuality? What do you feel is the best course of action for me? What are the alternatives to the primary approach that you're suggesting? I have other health conditions. How can I best ...
22. Undescended testicle
(Undescended testicle)
... cases. Other diagnostic issues If your infant has two nonpalpable undescended testicles, your doctor may order tests to determine the sex of your child. The "absent" testicles may, for example, be ...
23. Fibromyalgia
(Fibromyalgia)
... a sort of memory of the pain and become more sensitive, meaning they can overreact to pain signals. Risk factors for fibromyalgia include: Your sex. Fibromyalgia is diagnosed more often in women ...
24. Cancer
(Cancer)
... sex can contribute to cancer. You can change these habits to lower your risk of cancer — though some habits are easier to change than others. Your family history Only a small portion of cancers are due ...
25. Triple X syndrome
(Triple X syndrome)
... everything from your height to your eye color. One of these chromosome pairs determines your sex. You receive one sex chromosome from your mother and another from your father. Your mother can give you ...
26. Osteoporosis
(Osteoporosis)
... Some risk factors for osteoporosis are out of your control, including: Your sex. Women are much more likely to develop osteoporosis than are men. Age. The older you get, the greater your ...
27. Food and Adolescent Acne
(Nutrition)
... acne is not caused by chocolate, fried foods, candies, or anything else in a teenager’s usual diet. It’s not the result of constipation, nor is it a sign of sexual activity or the lack of it. Instead, ...
28. When To Let Your Teenager Start Dating
(Dating & Sex)
... majority are unattached. If anything, youngsters in the group spend as much time interacting with their same-sex friends as they do with members of the opposite sex. Dr. Ron Eagar, a pediatrician at ...
29. Teen Love Connection
(Dating & Sex)
... can date, whether dates have to be group dates or if one-on-one dates are allowed, curfew, your expectations of the teen and partner he/she chooses, your family’s stance on teen sex, information on how ...
30. Emergency Contraception
(Dating & Sex)
Emergency contraception is a form of birth control. It is a pill taken after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure. For example, if your regular birth control fails (the condom breaks during sex), if ...
31. Birth Control for Sexually Active Teens
(Dating & Sex)
This table provides information about both over-the-counter and prescription forms of birth control. However, many mothers and fathers will not feel comfortable having sexually blunt conversations or discussing ...
32. When Puberty Starts Early
(Puberty)
... percent of boys who experience precocious puberty. Their sexual development, while occurring abnormally early, still falls within the range of normal. As with delayed sexual development, there is often ...
33. What's Happening to my Body?
(Puberty)
... get larger. There's also an increase in sex hormones. You may notice you get erections (when the penis gets stiff and hard) more often than before. This is normal. Even though you may feel embarrassed, ...
34. Physical Development: What’s Normal? What’s Not?
(Puberty)
... chemical messengers produced by the body’s glands, travel through the bloodstream to regulate specific cells and organs. They are central to growth, sexual characteristics, procreation, metabolism, personality ...
35. Masturbation
(Puberty)
Masturbation is an aspect of childhood sexuality that parents find hard to re­spond to comfortably and appropriately. Part of the difficulty may be the need to acknowledge that children are sexual beings. ...
36. Delayed Puberty
(Puberty)
... tells us that the system has been switched on and that sexual maturity is going to come,” says Dr. Spack. “Very often, parents will bring in a youngster who is upset that he hasn’t started to grow yet.” ...
37. Obesity
(Obesity)
... dysfunction and sexual health issues, due to deposits of fat blocking or narrowing the arteries to the genitals Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition in which fat builds up in the liver and can ...
38. Morning sickness
(Morning sickness)
... suggests that ginger can be used safely during pregnancy, but there's some concern that ginger may affect fetal sex hormones. Hypnosis. Although there's little research on the topic, some women ...
39. Menstrual cramps
(Menstrual cramps)
... of the female reproductive organs is usually caused by sexually transmitted bacteria. Cervical stenosis. In some women, the opening of the cervix may be so small that it impedes menstrual flow, ...
40. Menorrhagia
(Menorrhagia)
... exercise? Has your body weight recently changed? Have you recently experienced significant stress or emotional difficulty? Are you sexually active? Are you using any type of birth control? Do ...
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