Antibiotics Can Prevent Wound Complications Of Childbirth, Study Shows
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 14:21
in Health & Medicine
A single dose of antibiotics can significantly aid healing of the severe tearing that occurs in vaginal tissues during many births, according to researchers. As many as one in five women suffer severe vaginal tears during childbirth. In the study, those who received the antibiotic endured roughly one-third as many infections or other wound-healing complications two weeks after surgical repair of their tears.