Interventions for preventing postpartum constipation

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Turawa, Eunice B ^a   Musekiwa, Alfred ^a   Rohwer, Anke C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULKING AGENT; ENEMA; LAXATIVE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUPUNCTURE; BEHAVIOR THEORY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LOOSE FECES; MATERNAL DISEASE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SAFETY; SIDE EFFECT; SUPPOSITORY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; INJURIES; META ANALYSIS; PERINEUM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); THERAPEUTIC USE;

ADULT; CONSTIPATION; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAXATIVES; PERINEUM; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84964696048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011625.pub2     Document Type: Review

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