You should have a colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50. Alternatively, you may get a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, a double-contrast barium enema every five years or a CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) every five years. However, a colonoscopy will be needed if any of those results are positive.
Jena Pincott explains that even after a mother gives birth, her babyâs cells remain inside her body â and work tiny wonders. In an excerpt from her book Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, Pincott explains that pregnancy is really only the beginning for mother and baby cell-sharing.
Very smart on their part, as breast milk is quite low in iron. Even if youâre not pregnant, anemia is an issue that women in their childbearing years are susceptible to due to losing blood every month through menstruation. Red blood cells bring oxygen to all the muscles, tissues and organs in the body. And they have the important task of delivering oxygen to a growing baby via the placenta. Once theyâve dropped off the oxygen, they pick up carbon dioxide and drop it off with your lungs so you can exhale it.