27 October, 2007 05:37:11
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Epsom salts may help prevent eclampsia-triggered deaths

A New York-based non-profit organisation has launched a campaign to make magnesium sulphate, or Epsom salts, more accessible because it can be an effective treatment for eclampsia—a condition that causes convulsions, coma and death during pregnancy.

 

The organisation called EngenderHealth presented the first global analysis of eclampsia at the Women Deliver conference in London last week, which showed that four million women suffer from the condition each year, of which 63,000 die.

 

The data showed that the condition also claimed the lives of about 300,000 infants.

 

Ana Langer of the organisation feels that the availability of magnesium sulphate can prevent a large number of lives from the condition.

 

"Its safe, effective, cheap, yet unavailable," New Scientist magazine quoted her as saying.

 

She says that the scarcity of magnesium sulphate may be because it was so cheap that pharmaceutical companies did not bother making or selling it.

 

Lack of trained doctors in developing countries, who would know how to infuse the compound properly, might be another reason for the shocking results of the global analysis of eclampsia, she said. (ANI)

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Comments (1 posted):

Jerome Prazac on 28 November, 2007 10:27:52
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I agree with you about the magnesium salts
we have in Peru a version of the Empson salts under the name of Magne Salts me the intake it is horrible and it is is to hard to drink with a glass of water.

I wonder if there is a a best way to take , lets say in tablets, maybe you can suggest a brand of the best magenesium salts.

Jerome
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