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.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, more commonly known as NSAIDS, can slow or prevent preterm labor by blocking production of prostaglandins, which help cause uterine contractions. To stop preterm labor, the NSAID indomethacin is given intravenously, by mouth or via rectal suppository.