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    Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth...
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  • may indicate developing complications such as, postpartum bleeding, engorged breasts, postpartum infections. The breasts change during pregnancy to prepare...
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    narrows and lengths over a few weeks. Postpartum infections can lead to sepsis and if untreated, death. Postpartum urinary incontinence is experienced by...
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    coagulopathies. Postpartum infections, also historically known as childbed fever and medically as puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the reproductive...
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  • Vaginitis (redirect from Vaginal Infections)
    woman. For bacterial vaginosis, these include "premature delivery, postpartum infections, clinically apparent and subclinical pelvic inflammatory disease...
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  • of urinary incontinence at six months postpartum being 3–7% and fecal incontinence 1–3%. Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal...
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    Postpartum psychosis (PPP), also known as puerperal psychosis or peripartum psychosis, involves the abrupt onset of psychotic symptoms shortly following...
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    conditions like gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia. Postpartum infections are infections of the uterus or other parts of the reproductive tract after...
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    Postpartum confinement is a traditional practice following childbirth. Those who follow these customs typically begin immediately after the birth, and...
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    most common causes of maternal mortality are maternal bleeding, postpartum infections including sepsis, hypertensive diseases of pregnancy, obstructed...
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    mother can cause chorioamnionitis (a severe infection of the placental tissues) infrequently, postpartum infections (after birth) and it had been related with...
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  • in pregnancy (16%) along with post partum bleeding (13%) and puerperal infections (2%). Although many pregnant women with high blood pressure have healthy...
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    vertically transmitted infections are included in the TORCH complex: T – toxoplasmosis from Toxoplasma gondii O – other infections (see below) R – rubella...
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    morbidity. Infection can occur in around 8% of women who have caesareans, largely endometritis, urinary tract infections and wound infections. The use of...
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  • Postpartum care or postnatal care is a service provided to individuals in the postpartum period, to help with postpartum recuperation and restoration....
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    genital tract with boric acid killed the microorganisms causing postpartum infections while avoiding damage to mucous membranes. Building on Redi's work...
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    miscarriage. Mycoplasma genitalium infection is associated with an increased risk of preterm birth and miscarriage. Infections can increase the risk of a miscarriage:...
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    bacterial infections. This includes middle ear infections, strep throat, pneumonia, traveler's diarrhea, and certain other intestinal infections. Along with...
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    conventional ideas about the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as postpartum infections or childbed fever), finding that it could be drastically reduced...
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    the galls after childbirth to treat vaginal discharge and related postpartum infections. Autumn foliage, Izmir, Turkey leaves with galls leaf with galls...
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    Postpartum bleeding or postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is often defined as the loss of more than 500 ml or 1,000 ml of blood following childbirth. Some have...
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    sudden death in women during childbirth, diseases of the cervix and postpartum infections. He was a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and...
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  • Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology...
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  • Postpartum chills is a physiological response that occurs within two hours of childbirth. It appears as uncontrollable shivering. It is seen in many women...
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    "saviour of mothers". Postpartum infection, also known as puerperal fever or childbed fever, consists of any bacterial infection of the reproductive tract...
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    An advertisement poster for Hartmann's pads, dated circa 1900. "Accouchement" means childbirth, and "puerperal fever" is a postpartum infection....
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  • a time known as the postpartum period or puerperium. A 2016 review ties this "lochial period" to worldwide customs of postpartum confinement, a time for...
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    Graham, the family's thirteenth child. Edith's death was a result of postpartum infections; Richard believed it occurred because of "hygiene neglect". According...
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    assumed that she did not intend to return to Maximilian. She died of postpartum infections after childbirth. As the niece of Charles II of Spain, Maria Antonia...
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    about her struggles with postpartum depression, which were later recorded in her book Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression. In 2004,...
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