Diet and nutrition are an important part of living well with kidney disease. As your kidney disease progresses, your dietary needs will likely change as well. Click on the appropriate stage below to learn more about diet and kidney disease.
Tocolytics are drugs that minimize the strength and number of contractions. Although an ideal goal would be to stop preterm labor completely, the most that can be reasonably expected from current tocolytics is a delay of 48 hours. This delay allows time for treatment with steroids and antibiotics.
For those who believe that in the hours before childbirth a woman needs all the (chemical) help she can get, things are looking bleak. Pethidine, a drug widely used during labour and second only in popularity to gas and air, is totally ineffective as a pain-killer, according to a recent commentary in The Lancet.