Obese 'should be barred from IVF'

Clearly and with certainty. After all these years, someone is finally standing with me to help the kids. But, don't forget the obese men. They, too, put their children at risk.

"Obese women should be refused fertility treatment until they lose weight, IVF say experts.

Whether they are seeking treatment on the NHS or privately, professionals are being urged to deny treatment to women with a Body Mass Index of more than 35.

Where possible, the British Fertility Society says IVF should be offered only when her BMI has dropped below 30 - a figure based on both height and weight."

To prevent the harm children suffer from overweight/obese parents, I started the Fit To Parent (tm) Program years ago. It was the first of its kind. It remains unique in its efforts to help parents and children.

"'Obesity reduces the chances that a woman will conceive naturally and decreases the possibility that fertility treatment will be successful,' said Mr Tony Rutherford, the chair of the BFS's policy committee.

'It also increases the risk of complications during fertility treatment and pregnancy and endangers the health and welfare of both mother and child.'

Among the 'complications' listed was the difficulty of providing safe anaesthesia for obese women during procedures, as well as problems with viewing ovaries on an ultrasound scan.

Obesity is also thought to raise a woman's risk of miscarriage after IVF treatment."

Fat parents also overwhelmingly place the child at risk of overweight/obesity and the attendant illnesses.

“The chief executive of the Infertility Network endorsed the recommendations, but stressed women must be offered the help they needed to lose weight.”

Unfortunately, the sick care industry does not offer any possibility for weight loss. (See here, here, here, here and here.) To understand why, read this and this.

And, as usual, where there is a chance to make a buck at the expense of a child’s health, sick care attempts to seize it.

"But the chairman of the National Obesity Forum, Dr Colin Waine, said he found the new guidelines 'troubling'.

'Weight loss may improve the success of treatment, and women should be made aware of that, but to deny treatment outright is discriminatory,' he said."

It is not “discriminatory.”

It is a true step towards real preventive care and restrictions should be applied when the father-to-be is fat (the risks to the child-to-be are greater when the woman is fat than when the man is fat).

Colin Waine, IMHO, is clearly unfit to practice medicine and a killer.