under tension!!!

usually, i'll go through Egypt's unbelievable traffic absentmindedly...

but today, it just got on  my nerve...

and i got home and sleep myself to calmness...hmm... :)

i've talked about traffic last year once (ironically it was in april too)

feeling tense, it reminded me of a discussion i had with a group of friends and Dr Maha Mosaad just after her lecture about hypertension in pregnancy... how stress is somewhat essential for human being maturation...

a friend of mine (Noha...i've known 3 egyptians with this name already...hehe) was asking about the maturation of fetal lung in hypertensive mothers...

and Dr. Maha gave us a question...

you have three pregnant mothers, one is diabetic, one is normal and the other is hypertensive. which fetus will get lung maturation first?

*a diabetic mother will give enormous amount of blood more than usual and the baby usually ends up huge.

*a hypertensive mother will give less (the baby'll be growth restricted)

we answered; the normal mother...

"nope!...it's the hypertensive very limitedly supplied fetus that will maturate first"...everyone gave Dr Maha a quizzical look...

"bussi, (look)...if you look at the children in the streets, fighting for their survival...get very little to eat, very few attention from their parents and have to work for their family...they get matured faster right? they can survive without their parents...and seldom fell sick even though they eat contaminated foods, right? 

but if you look at those pampered by their family, getting everything they desire...they can't survive on their own...

just like this fetus of hypertensive mother, he gets very limited nutrients and oxygen...so he has to fight for his life!"

"even though he's still in her womb?" Noha asked back

"even though he's still in her womb! , but of course there are scientific explanation for this...when you are under stress, you body will secrete more corticosteroid (a hormone for stress) that helps you cope the stress. and what do we give to stimulate fetal lung maturation?"

"corticosteroid!"

"see!"

*the discussion went on to the different types of fetal growth restriction then...

it got me thinking, maybe i am in a process to maturate...hehe...but feeling tense is not a happy feeling...

and sleep really works! :D

each new understanding in medicine triggers my inner mind, i am so small compared to this huge wide universe...subhanallah!

*sorry for a lot of jargons...hehe, i've tried simplifying them as much as i could...and do correct me if am wrong!