In women, premature delivery, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM),4 obesity, Cesarean section and endocrine disturbances can either delay or suppress lactogenesis II and affect the successful establishment of lactation (18).
third spacing is a shift of fluid into the interstitial spaces--where there is little fluid normally perfusing. this patient differs from the pt with generalized edema because the third spacing is just that... all the fluid has shifted from the other compartments and although they look all puffy and full of fluid, they are actually hypovolemic.
The term 'viscosity' describes a material's property from a physicist's point of view. It is a fluid's thickness. Scientifically speaking, it is the measure of a fluid's internal flow resistance, the resistance to being deformed. The two-plates model mathematically describes this definition. A fluid's viscosity is determined by viscometry, which is part of a wider science called rheometry. Rheometry again is part of rheology, the science of materials' flow behavior and deformation. All materials range on an imaginary scale from solid to liquid.