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.
Tocolytic therapy (to stop or delay labor) with magnesium sulfate (MgSO 4) is known to affect calcium homeostasis and result in hypocalcemia and hypercalciuria [173,174], and it is possible that high doses of MgSO 4 suppress PTH through interactions with the calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) [31].