The real state of knowledge and practice on reproductive health care in married women aged 15 to 49 years

In October 2002, a study was carried out in 2 communes Dan Tien and Cuc Duong, Vo Nhai district, Thai Nguyen province, concerning the knowledge and practice of reproductive health care in married womens, aged 15-49 years old. Almost pregnant women were aware that it takes 3 times to frequent the maternal clinics, to give breast feeding early immediately after child birth, and the breast feeding prolonged enough. However, in practice, only 75.6% and 78.1% in 2 above mentioned communes respectively. Pregnant women underwent the pregnancy examination and had got 3 times enough to get examination in the whole their pregnant period. 50% and 52% pregnant women had been given antitetanic infection in their pregnant period. 46% and 31% had had proper breast feeding, 84.7% and 61.3% gave birth in state health institutions.

Study on the changes of biochemical index in rabbit blood before and after receiving "Thap toan dai bo" tablet

Two spectices of health Rabbit weighing 1,8-2,5 kg were descriptive in comparing before and after studying. Oral administration with "thap toan dai bo" pills- a traditional medicine, in experimental showed that the pill haft an effect to vary some biochemical indices of rabbit. However these variation did not influence on the normal metabolism of the animal as well as on the biochemical function, for instance in glucose with the comparative coefficients of P>0,05, proted P>0,05 and some other indices of chlolesterol, triglycerid… with P>0,05. These comparative coefficient had not statistical significance.

To study some risk factors of cerebrovascular accident complications

In ThaiNguyen Central General Hospital some cerebro-vascular complications were studied. Common risk factors leading to complications were: Hypertension with the highest incidence of 78,5%, lipidemia disorder 53,9%, alcoholism 26,9%, tabagism 21,4%, catching a cold 16,4%, transient ischaemia 14,8%, familly factors10,9%, heart diseases 8,2%, stress 5,4% and diabetes 3,8%.

The variation of blood biochemical indices before and after treating Basedow’s disease using propyl thiouracyl

After a 4 weeks of treatment by propyl thyouracil, the biochemical indices of Basedow disease had changed obviously: triiodothyronin (T3) high level (7.95 ± 1.58 nmol/l before treatment) had increased dramatically (1.98 ± 0.54 nmol/l), total thyroxin (T4) high level (257.56 ± 47.45 nmol/l before treatment) had decreased dramatically (1278.04 ± 10.82 nmol/l). FT4 serum level high level had decreased after treatment. TSF low level before treatment had increased. But after treatment glucose level had increased unsignificantly versus that before. In severe condition blood cholesterol had increased, but in moderate and mild condition, there was no change.

Preliminary results of the topic formula of “Kho tri tan” in combining with oral use of traditional medicinal plant in treating anal hemorrhoid

35 patients with internal hemorrhoid of II, III, IV grade were treated by simple technique in a short duration and thourough operation without complicate equiments, the traditional formule “kho tri tan E” in combining with Vietnamese traditional herbal medicines gave preliminary satisfied efficacy through the evaluation of 2 main criteria of treatment as bleeding severity and the fall of hemorrhoid knot. Before the treatment, 100% of patients had got bleeding of diverse levels. After the treatment, there was 14.3% of patients still had got mild bleeding. In 100% of treated cases, the whole of hemorrhoid knots falled down. No complication occurred.