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.
These methotrexate warnings do not mean you have to stop treating your RA during pregnancy, necessarily. There are other RA drug options that are safe to take during pregnancy. These medications include the following prescription drugs: azathioprine; cyclosporine; hydroxychloroquine; sulfasalazine