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  2. Postpartum infections - Wikipedia

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    In the early 19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that women giving birth at home had a much lower incidence of childbed fever than those giving birth in a maternity ward. His investigation discovered that washing hands before a delivery with a calcium hypochlorite solution reduced childbed fever fatalities by 90%. [ 29 ]

  3. Clindamycin - Wikipedia

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    Clindamycin has been proven to decrease the risk of premature births in women diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis during early pregnancy to about a third of the risk of untreated women. [39] The combination of clindamycin and quinine is the standard treatment for severe babesiosis. [40]

  4. Septic pelvic thrombophlebitis - Wikipedia

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    Septic pelvic thrombophlebitis (SPT), also known as suppurative pelvic thrombophlebitis, is a rare postpartum complication which consists of a persistent postpartum fever that is not responsive to broad-spectrum antibiotics, in which pelvic infection leads to infection of the vein wall and intimal damage leading to thrombogenesis in the ovarian veins (left or right, although right is more ...

  5. A week-by-week guide to common pregnancy symptoms - AOL

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    Pregnancy Symptoms Week 3. Let's say the first day of your last period was April 10 and you became pregnant thereafter; that would mean your baby was conceived around April 24, or during week ...

  6. Lincosamides - Wikipedia

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    They are efficacious in the treatment of dental infections, abdominal infections, abscesses, pelvic inflammatory disease and anaerobic infections. Clindamycin alone has been shown to be efficacious in the treatment of acne, [24] toxic shock syndrome [25] and malaria, [26] and to decrease the risk of premature births in women with bacterial ...

  7. Calendar-based contraceptive methods - Wikipedia

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    However, many women have shorter luteal phases, and a few have longer luteal phases. [33] For these women, the rhythm method formula incorrectly identifies a few fertile days as being in the infertile period. [19] Roughly 30-50% of women have phases outside this range. [34] Finally, calendar-based methods assume that all bleeding is true ...

  8. Signs and symptoms of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms of pregnancy are common, benign conditions that result from the changes to the body that occur during pregnancy. Signs and symptoms of pregnancy typically change as pregnancy progresses, although several symptoms may be present throughout. Depending on severity, common symptoms in pregnancy can develop into complications ...

  9. Obstetrics - Wikipedia

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    In pregnant women, preeclampsia may occur after 20 weeks of pregnancy, often in women who have no history of high blood pressure. Symptoms of preeclampsia may include severe headache, vision changes and pain under the ribs. [45] However, in some women, symptoms may not occur, until they go for a routine prenatal visit. [46]