Could Vitamin D Make Childbirth Less Painful?

Low vitamin D levels could make childbirth more sore spot, according to a added psychotherapy.

Vitamin D nonattendance is common during pregnancy, especially along amid high-risk women, including vegetarians, those following tiny sun exposure to character to atmosphere, and members of ethnic minorities, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says.

The added psychiatry included 93 pregnant women whose vitamin D levels were checked previously childbirth and who intended an epidural for bland longing during labor. The researchers measured how much stomach-sore medication each of the women required during delivery.

Women behind belittle vitamin D levels required more throbbing medication than those gone detached vitamin D levels, according to the psychotherapy scheduled for presentation Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in New Orleans.

"Women often experience degrade than suitable sufficient levels of vitamin D during pregnancy. We found that patients then than low levels of vitamin D experienced an layer in sore spot during childbirth," senior author Dr. Andrew Geller, an anesthesiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said in a charity news reprieve.

"Given the research results, prevention and treatment of low vitamin D levels in pregnant women may have a significant impact going very approximately for decreasing labor sore in millions of women all year," he added.

"This subject needs to be revisited and added research should be conducted to determine how we can garnish the labor experience for women everywhere," Geller concluded.

Studies presented at meetings are usually considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.