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.
Intravenous magnesium sulfate (â tocolytic therapyâ) is used to treat preterm labor, pre-eclampsia, and eclampsia. But magnesium also activates the CaSR to suppress PTH; consequently, disturbances in calcium metabolism have occurred. 178 The resulting time course has shown hypoparathyroidism followed by hyperparathyroidism.