Puerperal

Woche,/. week (pi.) lying-in, confinement. Wochen-. weekly lying-in, obstetric, puerperal, maternity, -bett, n. childbed, -binde, /. sanitary napkin, -fluss, m. lochia, wochenlang, adv. for weeks. 

In Asia, this plant is valued as a remedy for fever, rheumatism, gout, and inflammatory illnesses. In China, the roots are used as febrifuges, deobstruents, and carminatives, and are used to assuage muscle pains, thoracic and abdominal inflammations, puerperal fever, and diarrhea. 

Persuasive proof of sulfanilamide s true antibacterial prowess came from Leonard Colebrook and his team of researchers in the maternity ward of Queen Charlotte s Hospital in London (7, 8, 9). Managing to obtain samples of Prontosil late in 1935, Colebrook quickly demonstrated the drug s remarkable effectiveness in curbing puerperal fever. The utility was soon expanded to other severe streptococcal infections. 

Egypt. Dried fruits are smoked as a treatment for schistosomiasis "". The fruit is used intravaginally as a contraceptive before and after coitus. Fifty-three percent of 1200 puerperal women interviewed practiced this method, of whom 47% depended on indigenous method and/or prolonged lactation ". 

Nasta et al. also tried to investigate the relationship between cholesterol and mood states in the initial puerperal period. Their results showed that reduced plasma cholesterol concentration was associated with major feelings of fatigue and depressed mood [79]. In addition, West et al. compared the effects of transdermal versus oral estrogens on the vascular resistance index, mean arterial pressure, serum lipid concentrations, norepinephrine, and left ventricular structure in 10 postmenopausal women. The results showed that oral and transdermal estrogen significantly decreased the vascular resistance index, mean arterial pressure, norepinephrine, and total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol to a similar extent [80],... 

Endocrinological Disorders. The discovery that DA is a potent prolactin inhibitory factor in the portal circulation of the pituitary is the basis for the use of DA agonists to suppress unwanted normal puerperal lactation, and in treating pathological hyperprolactinaemia together with its associated anovular infertility. 

Similarly, risperidone caused extrapyramidal symptoms in fewer patients (24%) than haloperidol did (43%) in a two-phase study in patients with acute bipolar mania (phase I, 3 weeks, patients receiving either risperidone 1-6 mg/day, haloperidol 2-12 mg/day, or placebo (32). Plasma prolactin concentration was higher with risperidone (no data provided) prolactin-related adverse events included non-puerperal lactation, breast pain, dysmenorrhea, and reduced libido or sexual dysfunction these effects occurred in six patients on risperidone (4%) and in two on haloperidol (1.3%). 

The distribution and excretion of risperidone and 9-hydroxyrisperidone into the breast milk of a young woman with puerperal psychosis, who was treated with risperidone, has been reported (208). 

Streptococcus pyogenes Pharyngitis, impetigo, erysipelas, scarlet fever, puerperal fever, cellulitis, glomerulonephritis, woimd and bum infections, rheumatic fever Rare conjunctivitis, dacryocystitis, central corneal ulcer, preseptal and orbital cellulitis, endophthalmitis... 

Ada G 2001 Vaccines and vaccination. New England Journal of Medicine 345 1042-1053 Antimicrobial resistance numerous excellent leading articles and reviews on the causes and control of antimicrobial resistance published in British Medical Journal 1998 317 609-616, 645-674 Colebrook L, Kenny M 1939 Treatment with prontosil for puerperal infections. Lancet 2 1319 (a classic paper)... 

Loudon 11987 Puerperal fever, the streptococcus, and the sulphonamides, 1911-1945. British Medical Journal 295 485-490... 

Kirsch C, Iffy L, Zito GE, McArdle JJ. The role of hypertension in bromocriptine-related puerperal intracranial hemorrhage. Neuroradiology 2001 43(4) 302. ... 

Jasonni VM, Raffelli R, de March A, Frank G, Flamigni C. Vaginal bromocriptine in hyperprolactinemic patients and puerperal women. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 1991 70(6) 493-5. 

The transfer of penicillins (ampicillin, pivampiciUin, phenoxymethylpeniciUm) into the breast milk of nursing mothers with puerperal mastitis to the breastfed infant is minimal (205). The risk of adverse drug reactions due to penicillins is therefore negligible, unless the infant has penicillin allergy (SEDA-14, 215). 

Matheson 1, Samseth M, Sande HA. Ampicillin in breast milk during puerperal infections. Fur J Clin Pharmacol 1988 34(6) 657-9. 

According to Dr. John H. Clarke, in his Dictionary of Materia Medica, homeopathic Silica and Pulsatilla are contraindicated in a patient taking saw palmetto, as they antidote the remedy. An early homeopathic physician, Elias C. Price, M.D., recorded several unusual case histories in which Serenoa was used. One patient was a very nervous woman with chronic inflammation of the bladder. She had frequent and painful urination, 10 to 20 times per night and every 15 to 30 minutes during the day. A rectal examination revealed a hard fleshy tumor the size of half a hen s egg on the posterior of the uterus. She was given Sabal (Serenoa) fluid extract, five drops, three times per day. In two months the tumor was reduced in size by half, and after another three months the tumor and the urinary problem were entirely resolved. In other cases. Dr. Price successfully used Sabal for pelvic cellulitis peritonitis puerperal fever inflammation of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries and even appendicitis. 

Puerperal feversepsis following childbirth also known as childbirth fever. 

As soon as in 1785, a solution of chlorine gas in water was used to bleach textiles. Potassium hypochlorite (Eau de Javel) was prepared by Berthollet in 1789. In 1820, Antoine G. Labarraque replaced potash liquor by the cheaper caustic soda liquor and thus was bom sodium hypochlorite. At the end of the 1820s, Robert Collins, then Oliver Wendell Holmes showed that puerperal (childbed) fever frequency decreased when midwives wash their hands... 

Dunn, P. M. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and his essay on puerperal fever. Arch. Dis. Child Fetal Neonatal. 2007, 92, F325-F327. 

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