Pethidine
Pethidine is a synthetic narcotic drug derived from morphine. It is either injected into your leg or bottom, or administered intravenously into a vein.
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What is pethidine?
Pethidine is a painkilling drug. It is also an anti-spasmodic which means that it helps you relax.
Pethidine
A form of pain relief given by injection into the thigh or bottom. Pethidine usually makes women in labour sleepy and very relaxed. It can make the baby slow to breathe when he is born, in which case he may need an antidote.
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Pethidine
Pethidine is a strong painkiller (related to morphine and heroin) and is usually given by intramuscular injection into the buttock. It may also be administered intravenously (directly into a vein).
Pethidine
A painkiller from the same family as morphine, pethidine works by relaxing your body and involves an injection in your thigh or bottom, administered by a midwife.
Pethidine: A drug which is given by injection to reduce or alleviate pain.
pethidine
Pain-relieving drug which is related to morphine and used during labour. It is usually given as an injection into the thigh. It can cause drowsiness, dizziness and nausea.
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Pethidine - A fast-acting drug that is given by injection to ease the pain of labor. Side effects from the pain medication include nausea and/or vomiting in the mother and extreme sleepiness in the newborn baby.
Pethidine
A pain relieving drug, given by injection in labour. Can be given into the muscle or directly into the vein.
"I had pethidine with my first daughter, which was great. With my second, it was a different health authority and they only had diamorphine.
The pethidine wore off. The pain was becoming very intense. None of those breathing methods worked. I couldn't move. I got out of bed once and threw up everywhere.
Fifteen healthy women in spontaneous labor who had no evidence of infection and used pethidine [a narcotic] for pain relief were compared with a similar group of 18 women who had epidurals. Temperatures were taken both orally and vaginally.
Three hundred sixty-two cases (80.98%) were under only pethidine analgesia and 420 cases (93.96%) under local infiltration anaesthesia or analgesia.
I was given, gas and air, a morphine injection, two pethidine injections another injection (I cant remember what it was just know it relaxes the muscles and begin with a B !!) The injections made me sick and didn't take the pain away so I was then ...
The three painkilling drugs available at the Jessop Hospital are Diamorphine, Pethidine and Meptazinol. They are used on your request to relieve pain during labour. They are administered with an injection into the muscle of the thigh or buttock.
Pethidine - narcotics for pain relief in labour
Spinal anaesthetic for a Caesarean birth
Spinal anaesthetics for labour
Natural therapies and other methods for pain relief
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Obstetricians run through the various options for pain relief. The TENS machine, gas and air, pethidine and - the mother of all pain relief - the epidural. Also non medical options like mobilization and warm baths are explored. (03:53) ...
Some women find it hard to pay attention to the baby if they have had a long labour, or if they've had painkilling drugs like Pethidine. If you feel exhausted, take your time.
 See also: Pregnancy, Midwife, Epidural, Contraction, Contractions
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