The genetic disease from mother to child

Migraine

According to Dr. Kate Henry, a neuroscientist at New York University, has 70-80% of the girls will have a "legacy" of this migraine from the mother. The researchers found the gene defect on called tresk.

The gene that is the cause of migraines. If this gene is not working well, the surroundings in which factors such as noise, caffeine, cheese can easily stimulate the feeling of pain in the brain is what causes migraines. When defective genes in patients with less active will cause more severe headaches.

Many migraine sufferers are sensitive to certain foods like chocolate, cheese, coffee, Orange, and red wine. Hormones also influence because of the level of estrogen and progesteron up down in the menstrual cycle can cause migraines.

Breast cancer

There are 3% of breast cancer patients in the uk get cancer cells is the "property" of the mother to leave. The BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes carrying women suffer mutations will easily leave this situation for his daughter. "Most women have this mutation gene will have cancer cells grow in very young age", Dr Elizabeth Rapley, hereditary cancer specialist from the Institute of cancer research said.

Women who have a history of cancer in his family was encouraged to perform genetic testing to be able to easily track the status of their disease. In addition, should live a healthy lifestyle by keeping the diet sure enough nutrition, sleep time and quality, and avoid smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages.

Depression

10% of women suffer from depressive mother, according to research by the national institutes of health on the mental health of the United States. Mental illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder are known to occur in the genetic family.

Scientists have isolated a gene mutation, called tryptophan hydroxylase-2, can cause depression. This is the gene mutations due to deficiency of serotonin, a brain hormone regulate mood. However, so far, a direct genetic link has not been proven.

Women with a history of depression in his family were advised to stay away from stress, panic, and drinking alcohol can increase the risk of depression.

Osteoporosis

If your mother has been diagnosed with osteoporosis was prone, broken bones or even simply a bone-thin, small bones ... then you should also pay attention to the health of your bones. The bone structure is affected greatly by the heredity and correlation of the size, thickness, bone density.

The degree of osteoporosis of the mother you can tell you the size or thickness of the bones, you risk osteoporosis or not. But the care of healthy bones back depends on you because your bone health is also dependent on environmental factors, living habits, your illness.

Also, drink a lot of alcohol, smoking a lot of cigarettes, eating nutritional deficiency ... can also make your bones weak. To strong bones, you should exercise regularly, keep the weight balance, replenish enough calcium, magnesium, and vitamins 3 ...

Obesity

According to research conducted in the uk, the woman a copy of the FTO risk to 70% suffer from obesity than women who do not have duplicate genes. Another study discovered only 4% of girls were obese despite their mother had a normal weight, and has 41% of women are obese because my mother also suffers from obesity.

Another study published in the International Journal of obesity in 2009 has stated, there is a strong relationship between the mother and daughter obese, as well as the father and the son for obesity.

With this fact, the parents should help their children keep the diet by limiting the amount of calories and family activities make older sedentary like sitting watching television, encourages children to exercise regularly.

Difficult childbirth

The size and shape of the pelvis of the mother very easy for genetic girls and this is a wisp of the cause more difficult births. If your mother ever difficult childbirth, you should be careful. The problem occurred, varicose mach, blood pressure pregnancy is also very easy to move from mother to child.

You should consult your doctor to be reproductive health before and during pregnancy.

High blood pressure

According to the statistics of many authors shows that high blood pressure can have genetic factors. In the family if he, she, her father, her mother suffered high blood pressure then the children have this disease risk even more. So, those who have a family history of high blood pressure as relatives need to try to remove the new risk factors can prevent high blood pressure.

This can be done by way of exercise, meditation and breathing exercises. At the same time should also reduce the amount of salt consumed daily by avoiding the food packaging and food preservatives.

Early menopause

There are 70-85% of women undergo menopause prematurely if the mother also has a similar experience. One in 20 women undergo menopause before age 46 with the average age of menopause in women is 51. The study conducted by the University of Exeter said 85% of the experienced menopause early is because of the influence of genes.

Ovarian cancer treatment and surgery also can increase the risk of premature menopause. Unfortunately there is no way to prevent this.

Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease and have strong genetic properties. If your mother had arthritis, you risk getting sick more than 50% higher than normal. Osteoarthritis is the most common inflammatory condition. In osteoarthritis, the cartilage in the bone head protection degenerated because it creates friction when moving.

You also need to know that, in addition to heredity, other factors can contribute to an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis are: overweight (excess weight will cause stress on the joints), trauma, stress, smoking, eating lots of red meat, consume a lot of caffeine.

Knowing the risk of arthritis, you should soon have the preventive measures as soon as possible.

Heart disease

More than 20% of the risk of heart disease occur for if the mother has ever suffered a heart attack or pain in the upper chest which cause blockage of the blood vessels.

A study by Oxford University shows that people who have strokes each mother also has the risk of heart attack and stroke. This study shows that the genetic disease of the blood vessels that can affect the heart and arteries of the brain.

However, to date, according to the experts, the important thing is to always make a healthy lifestyle to maintain body weight, not consume too much fat and salt, and so should not be smoking and drinking alcohol to avoid the disease.

Diabetes

Diabetes is a genetic disorder, so if both parents suffer from diabetes , you have more risk of disease. If either parent, the disease will increase the risk in children, not sure. Diet, lifestyle, obesity is also the cause of diabetes.

So, those who have a family history with diabetes should begin to make small changes in your lifestyle such as cutting down the amount of sugar, increase the amount of fiber in the diet and exercise at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week.

Baldness

Baldness is the common phenomenon in men, this phenomenon may be caused by genes of the father or mother or both the genetic change. Genetic gene is one of the causes of hair loss, baldness, but this can be prevented if know hair care from early on.

Women with hair loss due to genetics tends to thinning hair and ladies in the area around the top Cap slowly back down. Currently, the dermatologist can examine the pattern of hair loss to determine whether it is caused by Genetics or not, simultaneously may require blood tests to exclude other causes. With this status, have had scalp topical medications for both males and females to slow hair loss.=

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