Family matters

Repeated miscarriages

One physician wrote in saying that a possible cause for recurring miscarriages is an allergy to one’s partner. After carrying out blood tests for one of her clients, she discovered that although the female had healthy eggs and the male healthy sperm, the resulting fertilised egg after conception could not be accepted by the body and therefore rejected.

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