Pamela answered my post about the effect of various types of fluids on
the development of postpartum edema with a question, and my answer
follows:

><I do not even know what a colloidal,
>nor a crystalloid liquid is!>
>
>To be truthful, neither did I without doing some reading in a medical
>dictionary. I should have put a note in about that.
>
>Things like clear IV fluids, like 5% dextrose, Ringer's lactate, etc.
are
>crystalloid liquids. I guess because if all the water were taken out,
the
>sugars would crystallize. Colloid liquids would be like blood, albumin,
>stuff with protein in it, I guess.>

My teensy smidgen of knowledge is a dangerous thing. It obscures the
point I was trying to make, because no one else has commented!

Nutritionists! Does anyone have any idea whether eating a high protein
diet the day before an induction might somehow raise the serum protein in
a pregnant woman's blood during the next 24 hours and have a positive
effect on her colloid osmotic pressure when she gets that 2-liter of
Ringers the next day?

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA

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