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.
More information about the announcement on magnesium sulfate in pregnant women to stop preterm labor is available on the FDA Web site. A new FDA warning advises clinicians not to administer magnesium sulfate injection, USP 50%, to pregnant women for more than 5 to 7 days for the off-label use of stopping preterm labor.