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.
Newborns are considered preterm if they are born before the pregnancy reaches 34 weeks. If you go into labor before 34 weeks, and there are no medical issues involved, your doctor may prescribe you medication to stop labor as well as give corticosteroids to the baby to mature his lungs in case delivery is unstoppable.