‘Overweight and Polycistic ovary, an unholy relation’

Manama

Eighty per cent of the patients of polycystic ovary are overweight, said Infertility and IVF Specialist, Consultant and Gynaecologist Dr Saba Amal Baig yesterday while talking to the DT News at her hospital here in Bahrain. “In this disease, the eggs are not produced and the child is not born,” she said explaining, “and if the eggs are produced, the quality of eggs is too bad to get mature.” Polycystic ovary is a hormonal imbalance in which ovary is enlarged and many cysts are produced. Irregular periods, black skin near neck, acnes, pimples, abnormal hair, not having baby and miscarriage in case of pregnancies are some of the symptoms of the disease. Dr Saba said that main part of the thing is that it is not dangerous. It is easy to treat and even the patient herself can do so. What you have to do is ‘watch what you eat and eat what is healthy.“Fifty per cent of patients gets better results by changing lifestyles and the girls who reduce their weight start getting normal periods,” she said stressing, “So educate the young girls to keep their weights down.”      “If you follow the basic health routine you don’t have the problems. There are also some patients with the polycystic disease who are very thin but that is genetic,” she further explained.She said that ninety per cent of the patients are Bahrainis as “it is not as common in Europe as it is in the Middle East, India and Pakistan.”  She said that there was a co relation between diabetes and polycystic ovary. “Wherever there is diabetes there is a polycystic.”