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THE UTILISATION OF MINI
MICROSCOPE “MAYBE BABY”
IN DETERMINING THE MOST FAVOURABLE TIME FOR
CONCEPTION
IN INFERTILE MARRIAGES
Assistant Professor Ratomir
Ganovic, MD., PhD
Belgrade, September 1995
Sterility of
married couples is referred to in cases
where after a year of regular sexual
intercourses without a contraceptive the
pregnancy does not occur (1).
About 15% of
married couples of fertile age is sterile
(2).
Though a certain
success has been achieved in treatment of
sterility of lately, sterility remains as a
very serious and grave medical and social
problem. For many reasons, despite the
greater success in treatment, an upward
trend of sterility is evident. This is
particularly true of certain regions in our
country where the fall in natality has such
dimensions that it is called “white
plague”.
For that reason,
there is a great interest in any new method
or product that may facilitate for married
couples family planning and raise natality.
Thus, at the end
of last year, a completely new product
appeared in our country - mini microscope
“MAYBE BABY” that easily and quickly, on the
basis of the crystallization test of saliva
determines fertile and infertile days in
women. It is designed in the form of a
lipstick and is very simple for use. It
helps to establish the existence of
ovulation and its exact date .
Otherwise, health
institutions use many methods for
prediction and detection of ovulation,
such as: measurement of basal body
temperature, cytohormonal examination of
vaginal secrete, examination of cervical
mucus, test of crystallization of cervical
mucus - FERN TEST, endometrial biopsy,
hormonal blood analyses, celioscopy, etc.
The most
frequently used method today is ultrasound
examination as a direct, non-invasive and
quick method. However, this method is not a
simple one, it requires the most modern
ultrasound devices, great experience and
expertise of doctors as well as a daily
health instituion attendance by the woman
in the periovulatory period.
Investigations
presented at the Eleventh Jugoslav Symposium
on Fertility and Sterility , held at the
Centre Sava in Belgrade, in September 1994
(3), indicating that the approximate time of
ovulation may be determined by mini
microscope “MAYBE BABY” using the saliva
crystallization test, has aroused great
interest, both of gynaecologists and women.
The
investigations were carried out at the
Sterility Department of the Clinic of
Gynaecology and Obstetrics “Narodni Front”
in the period June-September 1994.
The investigation
covered 71 women of generative age.
Every woman was
examined at three points of time in the
course of her menstrual cycle, the following
been carried out parallel:
- ultrasound folliculometry
and sonoendometry ;
- the test of crystallization
of cervical mucus - FERN TEST;
- the test of crystallization
of saliva using “MAYBE BABY”.
The total of 213
examinations was carried out .
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